Catherine, Princess of Wales

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Date published: 9:56 am, March 13th, 2024 - 18 comments

meanwhile…

Open mike 13/03/2024

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Date published: 6:00 am, March 13th, 2024 - 11 comments

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Daily review 12/03/2024

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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 12th, 2024 - 6 comments

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Open mike 12/03/2024

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Date published: 6:00 am, March 12th, 2024 - 56 comments

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Daily review 11/03/2024

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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 11th, 2024 - 3 comments

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Tax cuts for landlords will not reduce rents

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Date published: 11:23 am, March 11th, 2024 - 127 comments

Recently the Government has been working out how to cut funding for school lunches for poor kids while at the same time it has also announced that it will restore interest deductibility for landlords.

Open mike 11/03/2024

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Date published: 6:00 am, March 11th, 2024 - 59 comments

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Chloe Swarbrick’s first words as new Green Party Co-Leader

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Date published: 2:21 pm, March 10th, 2024 - 71 comments

In her first speech as Green Party Co-Leader, Swarbrick brings the party’s Charter to the fore, and talks about mobilising citizens to be part of democracy.

Vale, Magista

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Date published: 12:37 pm, March 10th, 2024 - 5 comments

Respects to the falling of the Rt Hon Jonathan Hunt.

Open mike 10/03/2024

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Date published: 6:00 am, March 10th, 2024 - 13 comments

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“Deliberate nuclear use

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Date published: 10:38 am, March 9th, 2024 - 18 comments

in a war over Taiwan” is the title of an Atlantic Council paper produced last September. They mean nuclear weapons. These are serious people; Undersecretary Bonnie Jenkins addressed them last year about AUKUS.

News and New Zealand Democracy

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Date published: 8:59 am, March 9th, 2024 - 15 comments

How do we prevent the decline of broadcast tv news being a deep wound to our democracy?

Open mike 09/03/2024

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Date published: 6:00 am, March 9th, 2024 - 36 comments

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Luxon crashes in latest Curia poll

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Date published: 8:52 pm, March 8th, 2024 - 39 comments

The Atlas aligned Taxpayer’s Union has released its latest Curia poll results. And the results are bad news for Christopher Luxon.

Daily review 08/03/2024

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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 8th, 2024 - 10 comments

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Open mike 08/03/2024

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Date published: 6:00 am, March 8th, 2024 - 64 comments

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Daily review 07/03/2024

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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 7th, 2024 - 17 comments

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Open letter to Judge Glubb

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Date published: 6:10 am, March 7th, 2024 - 63 comments

… the assault had the very real potential to cause serious, possibly fatal injuries. 

That fact should have featured in your sentencing, if only to use the opportunity to send a message to all men who punch women, and to young men who punch anyone in the head but especially old women, that it is an extremely dangerous act.

Open mike 07/03/2024

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Date published: 6:00 am, March 7th, 2024 - 58 comments

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Daily review 06/03/2024

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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 6th, 2024 - 19 comments

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Open mike 06/03/2024

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Date published: 6:00 am, March 6th, 2024 - 102 comments

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Daily review 05/03/2024

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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 5th, 2024 - 171 comments

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Let them eat cake

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Date published: 8:51 am, March 5th, 2024 - 73 comments

David Seymour has stated that funding for free school lunches will be cut by up to half.

Open mike 05/03/2024

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Date published: 6:00 am, March 5th, 2024 - 41 comments

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Daily review 04/03/2024

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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 4th, 2024 - 18 comments

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Where is Melissa Lee?

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Date published: 1:22 pm, March 4th, 2024 - 44 comments

The New Zealand media sector has been in turmoil during the past week. But Broadcasting Minister has refused to publicly discuss what is happening or what her government proposes to do about it.

Open mike 04/03/2024

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Date published: 6:00 am, March 4th, 2024 - 52 comments

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USUKAs

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Date published: 8:21 pm, March 3rd, 2024 - 32 comments

US Undersecretary of State Bonnie Jenkins is in Wellington this week with a hard sell for us on AUKUS Pillar 2 wunderwaffen maybes. We should say tai hoa.

Dune 2 and Gaza

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Date published: 8:37 am, March 3rd, 2024 - 7 comments

What if life followed fiction and Gaza was explained by Dune 2? Sigh. It isn’t. 

Open mike 03/03/2024

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Date published: 6:00 am, March 3rd, 2024 - 33 comments

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Open mike 02/03/2024

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Date published: 6:00 am, March 2nd, 2024 - 48 comments

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