Open mike 17/04/2024

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 6:00 am, April 17th, 2024 - 30 comments

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Forget this Trump trial

Written By: advantage
Date published: 1:56 pm, April 16th, 2024 - 14 comments

In the Trump felony trial now underway, there’s a yawning gap between media attention paid to this and the actual scale of the crime and its potential punishment. Trump is not indicted for trial for electoral fraud. He’s not on trial for paying a porn star for services. He’s not on trial for adultery. He’s […]

Open mike 16/04/2024

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 6:00 am, April 16th, 2024 - 94 comments

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The Cass Review reader: investigations into the treatment of gender dysphoric children and youth

Written By: weka
Date published: 9:56 am, April 15th, 2024 - 144 comments

The final report is a carefully worded document designed particularly for the systems of power in charge of child health, wellbeing and safeguarding: health systems and their managers, medical practitioners and their professional bodies, MPs and government departments, and NGOs.

It’s also a damning indictment of the poorly evidence medical experiment that has been done on gender non-conforming children in the past decade. It’s likely to be the biggest medical scandal many of us will see.

Iran launches missiles at Israel in retaliation for consulate strike in Damascus

Written By: nickkelly
Date published: 4:18 am, April 15th, 2024 - 15 comments

Israel should not have bombed the Iranian consulate buildings in Damascus. Iran should not have fired 300 missiles at Israel in response. Neither of these actions should have happened, but they now have. The world now watches to see if there is further retaliation and escalation of violence, or if calmer and wiser heads prevail.

The first Ministerial scalp?

Written By: mickysavage
Date published: 10:34 am, April 14th, 2024 - 27 comments

Already we have what looks like an odds on favourite for the first Ministerial scalp.

Open mike 13/04/2024

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 6:00 am, April 13th, 2024 - 26 comments

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National only wants to help tenants *

Written By: mickysavage
Date published: 10:22 am, April 12th, 2024 - 48 comments

* get evicted more easily.

Daily review 11/04/2024

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 5:30 pm, April 11th, 2024 - 62 comments

Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other …

Daily review 10/04/2024

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 5:30 pm, April 10th, 2024 - 8 comments

Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other …

Open mike 10/04/2024

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 6:00 am, April 10th, 2024 - 166 comments

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Open mike 09/04/2024

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 6:00 am, April 9th, 2024 - 140 comments

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What if climate collapse comes much sooner than we expected?

Written By: weka
Date published: 6:07 am, April 8th, 2024 - 91 comments

“It is simply mind-boggling,” said Prof Michael Meredith, science leader at the British Antarctic Survey. “In sub-zero temperatures such a massive leap is tolerable but if we had a 40C rise in the UK now that would take temperatures for a spring day to over 50C – and that would be deadly for the population.”

Back on Track?

Written By: mickysavage
Date published: 11:05 am, April 7th, 2024 - 71 comments

National campaigned on the promise of getting the country back on track. How is it going?

Israel’s latest atrocities

Written By: mickysavage
Date published: 10:15 am, April 6th, 2024 - 60 comments

In the past week it has been disclosed that Israel’s Artificial Intelligence driven security system was responsible for the killing of seven international aid workers. And there are reports that Israel directed a missile attack on the Iraqi embassy in Syria.