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Date published: 11:55 am, June 7th, 2022 - 10 comments
Prince Louis and the perfect tweet.
Is Boris gone?
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Date published: 7:49 am, June 7th, 2022 - 17 comments
Reports from the UK suggest that Boris Johnson’s reign as Prime Minister may be over because it appears sufficient conservative MPs have a sufficient sense of morality to be outraged about Boris’s Covid lockdown busting ways.
Update: he survived but over 40% of Conservative MPs voted to remove him.
Open mike 07/06/2022
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 7th, 2022 - 110 comments
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Open mike 06/06/2022
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 6th, 2022 - 102 comments
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China and the Pacific
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Date published: 9:00 am, June 5th, 2022 - 223 comments
National and it allies have this week attacked Nanaia Mahuta for not responding to China’s forays in the Pacific. But they do not appreciate the quiet diplomatic work that Labour MPs have been doing in the background or the reasons why the Pacific rejected having a joint security arrangement with China.
Open mike 05/06/2022
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 5th, 2022 - 36 comments
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Open mike 04/06/2022
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 4th, 2022 - 138 comments
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Daily review 03/06/2022
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Date published: 5:30 pm, June 3rd, 2022 - 16 comments
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Open mike 03/06/2022
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 3rd, 2022 - 87 comments
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Daily review 02/06/2022
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Date published: 5:30 pm, June 2nd, 2022 - 87 comments
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Climate politics
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Date published: 9:10 am, June 2nd, 2022 - 5 comments
Quick quiz on which New Zealand politicians led well on climate action in the past 15 years. Which New Zealand town is in a climate emergency today? And how our focus and voting matters if we want to avert climate disaster.
Ardern is apparently to blame for National having racist supporters
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Date published: 7:58 am, June 2nd, 2022 - 273 comments
Yesterday on Morning Report Chris Luxon pivoted from a question about National supporters expressing distaste for Te Ao Maori to blaming Jacinda Ardern for not burning up political capital on co governance.
Open mike 02/06/2022
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 2nd, 2022 - 139 comments
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Daily review 01/06/2022
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Date published: 5:30 pm, June 1st, 2022 - 12 comments
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Open mike 01/06/2022
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 1st, 2022 - 96 comments
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Daily review 31/05/2022
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Date published: 5:30 pm, May 31st, 2022 - 16 comments
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National’s policies don’t add up
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Date published: 9:21 am, May 31st, 2022 - 48 comments
In 21 tweets Clint Smith has set out why National’s tax cut policies and its rhetoric are absurd and how the media is doing us a disservice by not asking the hard questions like what will be cut and how the promised tax cuts will be paid for.
Open mike 31/05/2022
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Date published: 6:00 am, May 31st, 2022 - 148 comments
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Daily review 30/05/2022
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Date published: 5:30 pm, May 30th, 2022 - 58 comments
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When Dumb Corporates Kill Thousands. Here.
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Date published: 11:24 am, May 30th, 2022 - 4 comments
New Zealand King Salmon has revealed that 42% of their salmon in warm water areas for the year ending January 2022 were just dead and chucked away. Salmon towed to cooler water had a lower rate of 37%. As SAFE points out if this had happened to a beef or dairy farmer they would be […]
Greenpeace: New research finds dairy industry making Canterbury water “undrinkable”
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Date published: 6:05 am, May 30th, 2022 - 35 comments
“There isn’t enough water falling from the sky or pouring down Canterbury’s rivers to actually dilute the nitrate contamination produced by thousands of tonnes of synthetic nitrogen fertiliser and over a million dairy cows across the plains,” – Mike Joy
Open mike 30/05/2022
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Date published: 6:00 am, May 30th, 2022 - 105 comments
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The problem with keyboard warriors and media commentators
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Date published: 8:29 am, May 29th, 2022 - 178 comments
Internationally Jacinda Ardern’s speech to the Harvard graduating class has been very well received. But locally not so much.
Open mike 29/05/2022
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Date published: 6:00 am, May 29th, 2022 - 51 comments
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Open mike 28/05/2022
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Date published: 6:00 am, May 28th, 2022 - 77 comments
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Daily review 27/05/2022
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Date published: 5:30 pm, May 27th, 2022 - 28 comments
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Jacinda Ardern’s Harvard University Commencement speech
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Date published: 11:17 am, May 27th, 2022 - 51 comments
Video and transcript of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s speech at Harvard.
Top Gun
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Date published: 8:33 am, May 27th, 2022 - 23 comments
The new version of Top Gun out now is sure to give rise to little think-pieces about how comparable the situation in the Ukraine is or is not to Desert Storm in Iraq or any other US-military led war. Or isn’t.
Open mike 27/05/2022
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Date published: 6:00 am, May 27th, 2022 - 96 comments
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Daily review 26/05/2022
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Date published: 5:30 pm, May 26th, 2022 - 27 comments
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How Russia Loses
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Date published: 2:05 pm, May 26th, 2022 - 90 comments
Even after just four months it is time count what Russia has lost and will continue to lose.
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