Well, it may backfire, if the Speaker didn't notice their infringement of the parliamentary dress code and it now gets brought to this attention. Legalist commentators may prefer to examine the relevant text of that code to assess conformity but seems ...
I agree that his correlation of Jacinda & facts seems rather loopy & you've reminded us of her track record effectively. I'm inclined to explain that as not due to any inherent incapacity however. Seems to me having a young child will always reduce one's ...
Yeah, as in two sorts of knowing. There's inner knowing & outer. I acquired the former when I explored my local bush as a child of 8 or so, and the hippie era revalidated that experientially. Social gnosis, as opposed to personal gnosis, is usually driven...
Apparently not, according to opinionators I have read lately. Do humans know they're in Gaia? Well I've known ever since I read Lovelock's first book, but most humans remain unaware of their niche ambience. Do parts know wholes enclose them? If you believe...
Lux thinks the coalition is squeaky-clean: Asked about ministers declaring any donations they had received from the tobacco industry, Luxon said there were "incredibly good" disclosure and conflict of interest rules. The other two minor parties had told ...
Yeah, we're waiting for a bunch of journos to spot the opportunity. Will they all ask her the evidence question today? You know, blood in the water, media sharks, feeding frenzy...
Most folk know nicotine kills people, and most don't know caffeine kills them too. So all she has to do at this point is supply the missing evidence for her claim. Oh, and if she doesn’t, it’s strike #2. Perhaps someone ought to explain to her that this ...
To RNZ: The associate health minister has been under fire in Parliament after telling RNZ she had not sought advice on freezing the excise on cigarettes for three years, despite a Health Ministry document saying she had. https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/...
Doubt it. Geopolitical risk isn't normal business in parliament so the ICJ is a curve-ball to be dodged. Only if debate in parliament were to focus on genocide prevention as risk management would the rarified heights of intellectual positioning become ...
Lux had to correct himself sometime later: you definitely scored a point there! Risk of genocide seemed so hard for him to concede that he was initially forced into denial of the ICJ verdict which made him seem both stupid and perverse. So looks like his ...
... a partisan and at times frankly toxic approach that inevitability leads...
So it seems: The GTSEZ is run by the sanctioned Chinese-born gangster-tycoon Zhao Wei, originally from China’s Heilongjiang province, whom the Lao government in 2007 granted a 99-year lease over a stretch of prime paddy land fronting the Mekong River, at ...
Criminal gangs operating at the China/Burma interface taken out by the forces of laura norder: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-68150555 "For a long time, multiple criminal groups... in northern Myanmar have openly organised armed fraud gangs and ...
Performance review from Tova: Not one but two ministerial faux pas including a humiliating correction from the police minister to the House (there was a prime ministerial correction too), a random reshuffle in an attempt to eschew responsibility for ACT’s ...
This here academic has got it right: https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/01/31/new-zealands-legal-obligations-to-the-world-court-ruling-on-israel/ As Newsroom has reported, 15 aid agencies have joined forces to call on the Government to do more to encourage an ...
Do you really have to ask? Surely you can imagine the desperation within Labour if he were to play the pied piper & lead the Labour Maori off to join the Maori Party. Not that he's likely to do so currently whilst they present as radicals. Labour's ...
Slavish adherence to British precedence, yet the neolib hegemony teeters on this slippery demographic slope: According to a report published in July by the rightwing thinktank the Institute for Economic Affairs (IEA), younger Britons have taken a decidedly...
As I suspected but well done for researching the fact. They seem to view trans ideology as determinant. It concedes a personal stance as being the effective reality when a critical mass of similar folk attain collective leverage on the democratic process. ...
Most people still see him in that category though. I agree that testimony of personal values doesn't feature much in his style. Who do you rate as a leftist opinionator? Some years back I bought & read What's Left: https://www.amazon.com/Whats-Left-How-...
Labour was promoting this macho dude online but Willie calls it an error: The man who has called himself the “king of toxic masculinity” has 8.7 million followers on X, formerly Twitter. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/labour-uses-gif-of-influencer-...
I never read it - I never found his writing in his political review journal to be particularly impressive altho some of his essays in recent years have been positive contributions and insightful. Never saw him even attempt to explain why & how the NLP ...
Not Green enough?? Former Green MP Catherine Delahunty intimated, as RNZ headlined it, "James Shaw may not have been green enough." "What he has believed to be the best strategy is not necessarily supported by everybody because it's not resulting in ...
A public spat between prominent leftists is always interesting, huh? https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2024/01/31/mediawatch-robert-reid-launches-devastating-strike-against-chris-trotter/ I was quite chuffed that the tweet had 19,000 impressions, 1,120 ...
... of legislation, including things I frankly was not happy with and...
Dennis' 'plungent' criticism of the Nats and their supporters I'm trying to keep an open mind on Lux's fraught prospects, for now. My habitual Nat stance is something like `bunch of hopeless cretins', but that's those in parliament & my view of Nat ...
Heh! A commentator on Stuff's report of Shaw's step-down suggested he join Labour. I immediately imagined him plunging his head into a tub of wet concrete & waiting for it to dry, whilst holding his breathe. Labour tends to have that effect on people.
The political trajectory of the GP seems to have reached a crossroads. Relevance is in question since the broader global context of the overall Green movement captured the avante garde position in western civilisation long ago, and has been steering the ...
Trotter on parliamentary social darwinism: Difficult though it is to admit, the bullying of politicians and their staffers is the most effective way of separating the innocently ambitious – those who just want to make the world a better place – from the ...
Wild card awaits launch opportunity: Sen. Joe Manchin says he “absolutely” can see himself as president. Privately, the West Virginia Democrat has told people that a Joe Biden health scare or a Donald Trump conviction could give him an opening to run as an...
Oz consternation: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-26/examining-the-drastic-downturn-in-nickel-and-lithium-prices/103388902 Both Mr Micheal and Ms King said all proposals — from royalty relief to sweeping royalty reforms — were on the table to support ...
Stuff reporter provides a useful primer for allocating blame, using the technique `spray & walk away': https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/25-01-2024/who-should-i-blame-for-wellingtons-water-shortage-a-users-guide This will suit punters of all shapes & sizes...
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