Hey Free Speech Union, Simon O’Connor is being muzzled
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Date published: 9:05 am, June 28th, 2022 - 41 comments
Someone should send out the free speech police. Simon O’Connor has been muzzled and is being stopped from saying what he thinks.
Open mike 28/06/2022
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 28th, 2022 - 118 comments
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Daily review 27/06/2022
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Date published: 5:30 pm, June 27th, 2022 - 22 comments
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Christopher Luxon’s many and varied abortion takes
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Date published: 8:42 am, June 27th, 2022 - 103 comments
National leader Christopher Luxon who has been previously reported as believing that abortion is murder, issued three public statements over the weekend trying to distance himself from the controversy caused by the US Supreme Court overturning of Rowe v Wade.
Open mike 27/06/2022
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 27th, 2022 - 233 comments
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Open mike 26/06/2022
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 26th, 2022 - 120 comments
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The US abortion bans and women’s rights
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Date published: 12:22 pm, June 25th, 2022 - 103 comments
We have abortion rights by the grace of men.
Mick Lynch is a working class hero
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Date published: 10:50 am, June 25th, 2022 - 30 comments
In the UK Rail Maritime and Transport boss Mick Lynch has caused a media sensation by strongly and clearly advocating for workers rights as the Conservative Government aims to deal with inflation by eroding further workers wages and job conditions.
Open mike 25/06/2022
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 25th, 2022 - 137 comments
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Matariki and Prime Minister Ardern
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Date published: 10:16 am, June 24th, 2022 - 73 comments
Plenty of experts will tell you about what Matariki ‘means to us’. Here’s what it means to Ardern.
Open mike 24/06/2022
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 24th, 2022 - 147 comments
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Daily review 23/06/2022
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Date published: 5:30 pm, June 23rd, 2022 - 25 comments
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Open mike 23/06/2022
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 23rd, 2022 - 269 comments
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Daily review 22/06/2022
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Date published: 5:30 pm, June 22nd, 2022 - 11 comments
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Luxon has been Susied on National Radio
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Date published: 11:04 am, June 22nd, 2022 - 68 comments
This morning on Morning Report Christopher Luxon was well and truly Susied as Susie Ferguson asked him how can we have tax cuts yet improved public services.
Open mike 22/06/2022
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 22nd, 2022 - 133 comments
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Daily review 21/06/2022
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Date published: 5:30 pm, June 21st, 2022 - Comments Off on Daily review 21/06/2022
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Should our future lie with NATO?
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Date published: 3:23 pm, June 21st, 2022 - 62 comments
Not content to stay in the North Atlantic, NATO is shortly about to reveal in Madrid its next ten-year plan to contain China. Jacinda Ardern will be there, who knows why. Are we nailing our colours to a flag at half-mast?
How Democracy Weakens
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Date published: 1:45 pm, June 21st, 2022 - 31 comments
It’s pretty commonplace now to observe that Prime Minister Ardern is doing well overseas but tanking at home.
The dodgy Auckland Mayoralty Curia poll
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Date published: 8:58 am, June 21st, 2022 - 104 comments
An Auckland Ratepayers Alliance Curia poll that was trumpeted as claiming that Efeso Collins and Leo Molloy were neck and neck in terms of public support has attracted criticism after it was disclosed that the poll of 500 persons had 53% stating that they did not know who they would vote for.
Open mike 21/06/2022
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 21st, 2022 - 196 comments
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Daily review 20/06/2022
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Date published: 5:30 pm, June 20th, 2022 - 4 comments
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Tamaki Makaurau’s very own wannabe Trump
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Date published: 9:10 am, June 20th, 2022 - 41 comments
What started out as an ego driven campaign is now developing into full blown Trumism as Leo Molloy thrashes around attempting to court attention in the belief, Trump like, that it will convert into political support.
Open mike 20/06/2022
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 20th, 2022 - 119 comments
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The 2022 Energy Crisis Is Right Here Right Now
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Date published: 4:56 pm, June 19th, 2022 - 44 comments
Every part of our energy-dense life from plastic to tarmac to food to clothes to building materials is about to get smashed like we ain’t seen.
Open mike 19/06/2022
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 19th, 2022 - 61 comments
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The Tauranga by election
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Date published: 7:00 pm, June 18th, 2022 - 64 comments
The Tauranga by election has been one of the most low key by elections held in some time. The polls are now closed. If Labour get within 25 points of National they can regard this as a victory.
Foot-shooting the sanctions’ lockstep
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Date published: 6:41 pm, June 18th, 2022 - 45 comments
RNZ’s “The Detail” asked are New Zealand’s sanctions against Russia working? They aren’t, but one detail we learnt that MFAT has 100 staff members assigned to sorting out their complications!! What a waste.
Open mike 18/06/2022
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 18th, 2022 - 107 comments
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Daily review 17/06/2022
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Date published: 5:30 pm, June 17th, 2022 - 25 comments
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Human rights, culture wars and the right
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Date published: 10:49 am, June 17th, 2022 - 39 comments
Christopher Luxton has proposed that social media posts showing gang members wearing bling should be censored. And in the United Kingdom Boris Johnson has railed against a ECHR decision which has upset his efforts to illegally extradite refugee status applicants to Rwanda. These are different examples of something the right is finessing, culture wars against minorities in breach of their rights for political advantage.
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