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Going cold turkey on Spotify

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:58 am, January 29th, 2022 - 166 comments

Neil Young’s decision to withdraw his music from Spotify because of its insistence on highlighting self declared idiot Joe Rogan has seen a number of people either cancelling their subscriptions or considering alternatives.

About the latest Colmar Brunton poll

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:15 am, January 28th, 2022 - 52 comments

The latest Colmar Brunton (now Kantar) poll has now been released and some of the commentary and analysis is pretty ordinary.

Labour has overseen massive inequality increase – Bernard Hickey

Written By: Simon Louisson - Date published: 1:14 pm, January 27th, 2022 - 154 comments

The Government’s Covid 19 response, mainly via Reserve Bank measures, has enabled a mind-boggling increase in inequality, according to influential financial commentator Bernard Hickey. Covid response has saved multiple lives, but its refusal to simultaneously address inequality via taxes raises uncomfortable questions about how a leftist government has overseen a once-in-a-generation shift in wealth

The importance of proper mask wearing

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:58 am, January 27th, 2022 - 55 comments

With an Omicron surge appearing to be inevitable the importance of proper mask wearing has never been more important.

The Price Isn’t Yet Right To Invade Ukraine

Written By: advantage - Date published: 12:32 pm, January 26th, 2022 - 59 comments

The entity making the most money out of threatening the Ukraine is the Russian Federation government itself. Follow the money.

Weird stuff Jacinda Ardern has been accused of

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:25 am, January 25th, 2022 - 212 comments

It appears that social media allegations against Jacinda Ardern are becoming more and more extreme.

Going Red

Written By: weka - Date published: 11:13 am, January 23rd, 2022 - 164 comments

The New Zealand government has announced a nationwide move to the Red Traffic Light system from midnight tonight.

UK Covid deaths with no underlying factor.

Written By: Bill - Date published: 10:51 am, January 22nd, 2022 - 106 comments

Oh. But here comes Omicron…

Omicron is coming

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:54 am, January 21st, 2022 - 113 comments

So far the country has fought back and eliminated the original Covid infection, won a couple of skirmishes and then and fought and quelled the Delta incursion. But it looks like Omicron is coming …

He’s not the messiah …

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:22 am, January 18th, 2022 - 125 comments

… he is allegedly a very naughty boy.

New Zealand’s Omicron options

Written By: weka - Date published: 2:31 pm, January 17th, 2022 - 101 comments

It will be a few days before we know if the omicron variant of Covid-19 is starting to spread in New Zealand. There are things we can be doing that will determine how that goes.

Blinken and Blind-Sided?

Written By: Mike Smith - Date published: 2:54 pm, January 16th, 2022 - 17 comments

Russian peacekeepers are already leaving Kazakhstan having nipped the ‘colour revolution’ in the bud. Blinken clearly didn’t have a clue when he said Russians never leave the house. Russian intelligence was superb. Now we wait for Russia’s response to US likely refusal to pull back from its borders. One thing I’d bet on – no invasion of Ukraine.

The Department of Earthly Gifts

Written By: weka - Date published: 1:11 pm, January 16th, 2022 - 151 comments

Where western minds are busy arguing if indigenous knowledge is science, botanist and first nations woman Robin Wall Kimmerer exemplifies how to do both at the same time.

What about those neat capital gains on housing, eh?

Written By: weka - Date published: 12:48 pm, January 14th, 2022 - 184 comments

Labour are doing the things about the housing crisis they said they would. It’s not working.

More Anarchy in the UK

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:19 am, January 14th, 2022 - 20 comments

Boris Johnson’s reign as UK Prime Minister may be terminal after news of a Downing Street party held during lockdown was leaked to the press.

What does Luxon do about Hipango?

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:31 am, January 11th, 2022 - 49 comments

Harete Hipango is in the news again, this time for posing with a group of anti vaxxers and posting a photo and making some pretty way out there comments on social media.

It’s Time.

Written By: Bill - Date published: 2:46 pm, January 10th, 2022 - 324 comments

In seven or eight days from now, the dutiful lackeys of the NZ government and the public health dept they direct, are set to come after every child in NZ between the ages of 5 and 12 with injections of m-RNA to hand.

Human rights and MIQ

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:42 am, January 10th, 2022 - 155 comments

Well known socialite, fashion blogger and apparent Constitutional expert Jamie Ridge thinks that the country’s MIQ arrangements are completely unconstitutional.

Australia’s Omicron problem

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:44 am, January 6th, 2022 - 132 comments

With over 61,000 new Covid cases reported yesterday Australia is in the midst of an infection surge that it has not seen before. What lessons can New Zealand learn from Australia’s handling of the pandemic?

The Long Covid Post

Written By: weka - Date published: 11:30 am, January 5th, 2022 - 50 comments

It’s understandable that public health, governments and the media focused initially on acute covid, but we’re two years in now, it’s well past time to put long covid to the forefront as well.

Maintenance time

Written By: lprent - Date published: 11:51 am, January 2nd, 2022 - 15 comments

The Standard server is going down for a few hours later today for maintenance. Some of the drives in the archive array are getting old. The SSDs in The Standard array are showing wear. Needs a good vacuum – for which I mostly blame the cat….

New Year. Good News.

Written By: Bill - Date published: 5:43 pm, January 1st, 2022 - 92 comments

This one goes out to all those good people running round like their hair’s on fire.

A few random predictions for 2022

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 11:30 am, January 1st, 2022 - 117 comments

A few random predictions for 2022.

Let’s punch for peace

Written By: Mike Smith - Date published: 4:28 pm, December 30th, 2021 - 34 comments

Today’s Herald editorial says New Zealand ‘wisely’ doesn’t punch above its weight in military activities. That’s not true – I remember sailing around the nuclear-powered USS Truxtun as it entered harbour in a Wellington gale. It was just one of many flotillas campaigning against nuclear weapons and nuclear war that resulted in a knockout – New Zealand’s suspension from the ANZUS alliance on a point of principle.

New Zealand 2 Covid 0 so far …

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:36 am, December 30th, 2021 - 280 comments

But Omicron may be loose.

What Starts off in Support of Alabama’s Miners …

Written By: advantage - Date published: 10:00 am, December 28th, 2021 - 2 comments

What Starts off in Support of Alabama’s Miners turns into a homily from Beau on the power of getting community change going when and only when you have the organisational power to pull it off month after month after month.

Die Hard is a Christmas movie

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:09 am, December 25th, 2021 - 33 comments

Here at the Standard we choose to debate the important issues of the day. What needs to be done about climate change, how the Country’s covid response is going (remarkably well and don’t believe the naysayers), and which National faction is leaking and undermining which leader. But there is one debate that is currently raging that has until now not been addressed …

The pandemic is resiliency training

Written By: weka - Date published: 12:17 pm, December 24th, 2021 - 12 comments

Fear and loathing on both sides of the fence, or adaptation and resiliency? We do have some choices.

Our Energy Upheaval

Written By: advantage - Date published: 7:39 am, December 23rd, 2021 - 79 comments

Ministers Wood, Shaw and Parker (Energy, Climate Change, and RMA reform respectively), must pull their eyes downward from the misty clouds of climate change and stuff multiple decades away and down into the jagged, shadowy deal-by-deal path of the transition to clean energy.