The problem is landlordism. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/mar/19/end-of-landlords-surprisingly-simple-solution-to-uk-housing-crisis?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other “Where Adam Smith and Karl Marx found common ground was in the idea that everyone’s ...
From the sidebar. https://www.kiwipolitico.com/2024/03/two-offenders-different-treatments/ One half unreported by the msm, or have I missed something? ”On the other hand there is a male Pakeha “senior political figure” in a rightwing party who during the ...
We are all the sum of our decisions as adults. Politicians especially should be held accountable for them.
A Carmel Sepuloni as Leader with Kieran McAnulty as Deputy Leader has possibilities down the line.
Pre election Cameron Bagrie was pretty much a shill for the National Party. Now not so much. https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2024/02/cameron-bagrie-says-government-should-be-putting-infrastructure-a-country-mile-ahead-of-tax-cuts.html "I would put ...
Do they have name suppresion, or could some enterprising journalist name some names?
How much has Talley’s given to NZ1?
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/508492/nearly-200-employers-stripped-of-right-to-hire-migrants-over-visa-scams Name and shame.
Tim Watkin makes some good points regarding our treaty debate. https://www.pundit.co.nz/content/lets-put-down-our-chisels-and-let-te-tiriti-o-waitangi-evolve ”The stone of history cannot be just shaken from our shoe. We have to learn to live with it by ...
Pablo has an interesting take on our new “government.” https://www.kiwipolitico.com/2024/02/the-new-zealand-junta/ ”Another thing about the new government is its utter disdain for the public. Polls only mattered in the election campaign but now are ignored...
On a par with; ”I did not have sex with that woman.” ”I did not inhale.”
Hound her till she resigns. No quarter asked, no quarter given.
The Labour front bench need to go on the serious offensive. Hound Costello, and Mitchell relentlessly. Until they force their resignations. Then target Reti and Wills.
Another issue Luxon has is the cronyism and corruption within his government. Gun toting Judith Collins as Minister of Defence. The same, minister for Orivida as AG. Casey Costello, ex shill for The Taxpayer Union as a minister. Chris Bishop, current ...
Not much of a honeymoon here. “Roy Morgan’s New Zealand Poll for December 2023 shows new Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and the National-led Government (National, ACT & NZ First) with a majority of 51.5% (down 6.5% from November) in their first month ...
Jim Mora's emphasis on Papal concern for the poor in Latin America: Let's remember that, as head of the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in the 80s and 90s, the last Pope (Ratso Ratzinger) launched a fundamental attack on those South ...
yes, but well, no
Yep, the Dom Post's front page is pure infotainment, these days.
@ js "In the asset sales debate MP Megan Woods said Hitler also had a mandate. Which I think is a perfectly justifed comment..." No, the Nazis never won more than 38% of the popular vote in a free Election. "Hitler and his allies decided who were the ...
Yep, guessed as much. And what a contrast with the Western reaction to Israel's massacre of 1400 Gazan civilians, including more than 300 Palestinian children.
Speak for yourself, babe.
Spot the difference ? Well, for one thing, the Thunderbirds doll is good-looking. Which is a damn sight more than you can say for Hekia.
Photographer: "Oh Christ, you've been drinking again, haven't ya, mate."
Photographer: "I said 'laid-back', John, not fucking comotose !!!"
Key contemplates new toupee.
Intellectually, neither had the upper hand.
John Key meets his intellectual match.
Yeah, Norman Finkelstein has some interesting things to say about the Germans' Philo-Semitism/ultra-Political Correctness on Israel. Astonishing how so many around the world take precisely the wrong (particularist rather than universalist) message from the...
The "International community" of course meaning.....the United States.
Love the "(With utmost gravitas)" !!!
Good to see you back, Morrissey - and in fine form with dear old Grumpers. Did you see Norman Finkelstein's recent demolition of the Palmer report ? - 'Torpedoing the Law: How the Palmer Report Justified Israel's Naval Blockade of Gaza'. "A careful ...
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