Author Archive

Luxon is deconstructing the plane while flying it

Written By: - Date published: 5:57 pm, September 25th, 2024 - 8 comments

What I’m saying to you is that Chris Luxon has never crashed a country before.

Unions are still relevant

Written By: - Date published: 5:50 pm, September 7th, 2024 - 26 comments

Unions have fought for the rights of employees in the past, present, and future.

Culture wars are a diversion from addressing class struggles

Written By: - Date published: 2:03 pm, August 24th, 2024 - 25 comments

Ditch the NZ culture wars if we really want challenge status quo.

When you remove nuts & bolts, things tend to fall over

Written By: - Date published: 11:51 am, June 22nd, 2024 - 21 comments

Nuts and loose screws are holding together this callous coalition government.

Democracy in Dire Straits

Written By: - Date published: 7:27 pm, June 20th, 2024 - 59 comments

Like an auto-immune disease, democracy can attack itself with dire consequences.

Fast-Track to Fast-Fail

Written By: - Date published: 7:33 pm, June 8th, 2024 - 35 comments

Only a fool insists on furiously flogging a dead horse to go faster on the track.

National’s irksome incompetence is inexcusable

Written By: - Date published: 6:05 am, June 5th, 2024 - 11 comments

When the fabric of lies unravels the gaslighting increases.

The National Party has a pattern of broken election promises

Written By: - Date published: 6:02 pm, June 3rd, 2024 - 9 comments

The National Party has created a new slogan: give New Zealanders a break … in promises!

Putting Politics over People

Written By: - Date published: 2:00 pm, June 1st, 2024 - 24 comments

National’s breaking of its election promise to fund 13 cancer treatments is cruel beyond words.

Are we drifting away or falling apart?

Written By: - Date published: 1:53 pm, May 18th, 2024 - 16 comments

What is the antidote for our socio-economic problems and how do we deal with this coalition government?

Coffee and Cigarettes

Written By: - Date published: 2:20 pm, February 3rd, 2024 - 12 comments

Coffee and Cigarettes is an in-depth study of the human condition by Jim Jarmusch.

Is the Coalition Government Back Jabbing Māori?

Written By: - Date published: 4:10 pm, December 22nd, 2023 - 19 comments

The coalition government robs Pita to pay Paora to appease its voter base.

The New Zealand’s New Neo-Authoritarian Coalition Government

Written By: - Date published: 2:36 pm, December 21st, 2023 - 20 comments

The coalition government has hijacked the democratic process for its own partisan and nefarious agenda.

Wanted: Dead or Alive? The Treaty of Waitangi

Written By: - Date published: 1:55 pm, December 17th, 2023 - 28 comments

Is the Treaty a contemporary guide or an archaic historical document?

About that First Speech from Luxon as PM

Written By: - Date published: 2:47 pm, December 10th, 2023 - 58 comments

Chris Luxon failed miserably at his first character test as PM.

About that Speech from the Throne

Written By: - Date published: 8:33 pm, December 6th, 2023 - 45 comments

The new Government blows the dog-whistle like the pied piper.

The Political Cowardice of David Seymour and Chris Luxon

Written By: - Date published: 3:53 pm, October 28th, 2023 - 26 comments

Secrecy and silence are signs of cowards.

NACT’s Law & Order Policies: Dog Whistle Or Proto-Fascism?

Written By: - Date published: 9:10 am, June 26th, 2023 - 22 comments

NACT’s Law & Order policies are a dog whistle and signs of proto-fascism.

When You Pay Peanuts, You Get Propaganda

Written By: - Date published: 6:23 pm, June 17th, 2023 - 38 comments

Trust requires vigilant efforts to build and keep. This means time and money.

DIA Is Not Short For Diablo

Written By: - Date published: 3:29 pm, June 4th, 2023 - 96 comments

A fine example of when a free speech advocate is spouting garbage that serves nothing and nobody well except his own biased views.

Why We Need Universalism, Not Tax Cuts, To Solve The Cost-Of-Living Crisis

Written By: - Date published: 8:24 am, June 1st, 2023 - 64 comments

The pros & cons of tax cuts vs. universalism suggest that universalism might be universally better for New Zealand.

Countering Conspiracy – the Green Party is not in a Civil War

Written By: - Date published: 4:20 pm, May 14th, 2023 - 54 comments

Trust in academics is on a downslide, as is trust in general. This is exacerbated by academics hiding a personal-political agenda when they dabble in the public domain.

Some People Say Silly Stuff

Written By: - Date published: 2:48 pm, April 18th, 2023 - 33 comments

To err is human and human error is triggerroring, so let’s err on the side of caution and stop erring altogether.

Pale Stale Ale and Other Forbidden Fluids

Written By: - Date published: 3:25 pm, April 16th, 2023 - 11 comments

Little Adolf was relentlessly bullied during his ECE through no fault of his own. Later in life, he became a heavy drinker of pale stale ale.

The Three Sly Donkeys

Written By: - Date published: 12:50 pm, January 3rd, 2023 - 41 comments

There are no single truths in politics and wicked problems have no easy solutions if at all.

The Striking Similarities Between Elon Musk and Wayne Brown

Written By: - Date published: 9:02 pm, November 9th, 2022 - 17 comments

Elon Musk and Wayne Brown both deliberately promote chaos.

Truthiness or Ignorance*

Written By: - Date published: 10:09 am, June 10th, 2022 - 53 comments

The world is too complex and hostile, so why bother trying to learn and understand.

Why do we* write Posts on The Standard?

Written By: - Date published: 1:23 pm, February 26th, 2022 - 28 comments

Why come here to comment?

The pandemic response is like driving a car

Written By: - Date published: 3:58 pm, November 19th, 2021 - 11 comments

Staying safe from Covid-19 this summer can be as simple as a few basic steps.

Auckland could become a ghost town this summer

Written By: - Date published: 3:09 pm, November 18th, 2021 - 39 comments

Domestic tourism could become extreme tourism this summer.

Get a haircut and get a real job

Written By: - Date published: 5:19 pm, October 24th, 2021 - 63 comments

While our eyes are peeled on the 90% vaccination target, the ground under our feet is shifting.

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