SeekingArrangement It's been featured in the media periodically over the last couple of years. The Prostitutes Collective also often reveals that many of its members are university students. [Your comments seem technically correct but cause discomfort here...
Harassment requires persistence beyond rejection. Making a single pass (unless it's actually bodily indecent assault) cannot be considered. Suspect that this is more a reflection of the parent's social conservatism and denial of their daughter's sexuality.
Yeah, she wasn't a schoolgirl, she was a university student and well over the age of consent. "Sugar daddy" arrangements are actually common amongst university students with older men (note he's only 37). An Australian website in this vein has tens of ...
If Bridges returns, traditional Maori values dictate that he will require sufficient utu. Could be ugly...
Too early to tell, but this may be an inevitable result of bombarding messages telling people that it's OK to blame all your problems on evil whitey, and express hatred of the police. The timing is suspicious to say the least.
One cop dead today. An inevitable extension of BLM movement, or just a West Auckland bogan hyped up on P?
Never understood "take a knee". Such a weird compound verb. Why not just say "kneel"?
When Bridges and Bennett were in charge, you claimed they weren't real Maori anyway because they were in National. So it's of limited relevance who or what composes the front bench in isolation. Pretty hard to construct a perfectly representative ethnic ...
270m has gone to sole traders. Those are unlikely to be capital intensive businesses. Very easy to just dismantle and set up again once you've milked the system. Remember the leaky building fiasco? Noone could be pursued because the builders all just wound...
Pretty telling that banks won't lend at all to these people, even with government taking 80% of the risk. Shows there isn't a hope in hell of seeing a penny back. A lot of the businesses will grab all the bonuses, owners extract what they can over the next...
He's allowed to identify as whatever he likes according to the modern conventions, particularly if there is a familial Maori connection. Would you be bagging him if he claimed to be female?
The Covid-19 thing is now a red herring. Based on current trajectory, Covid will be well and truly fixed in New Zealand by the end of October (we will be in Level 1 and have no cases), and the economy will still be in a secondary recession with jobs being ...
Prussians were also viewed in Europe as regimented, narrowminded, militaristic, and petty.
No, i just want the point made that we have probably over- or mis-reacted based on a data gap and an overzealous cadre of scientists (whose credentials we have no way of assessing until after the fact). In doing so, we've patronised and arguably ...
It's the right's equivalent of leftists demanding to know every politician's view on the Springbok Tour.
How's this for perspective - the number of Covid cases has still not yet surpassed the number of Measles cases that New Zealand had in the 2018/2019 outbreak. Measles is a highly virulent disease with an R0 of over 10 and is particularly lethal to infants ...
"Might Level 3 be regarded as what was intended all along, with Level 4 a deliberate overstretch intended to help people be more psychologically prepared for quite serious restrictions on their movements and activities?" Yes. The government has being using...
This could turn on a dime with one misstep. If National can pin this recession/depression on an overzealous response, the "lightweight/vapid" attack angle on Jacinda could well work. Winston is already trying to backpedal and distance himself from the ...
"Progressive" voters generally opposed Brexit not for fundamental reasons, but because they didn't like the sorts of people who voted for Brexit - it became a tribal issue. To me this was and is a complete failure of vision and imagination. A more ...
Quite frankly, Russia and China should extend a defence guarantee to Iran. It's a credit to their restraint and their desire to prevent an uncontrolled escalation that they haven't. The US slaps a guarantee on, gives arms etc to any country willing to ...
New Zealand needs to disassociate itself with the US's vile policy. I see Trump's latest threats are to bomb Iranian cultural sites. This is explicitly stated under the Geneva Convention as a war crime.
Genuinely shocked at the Suleimani assassination, that a Western democracy could resort to the flagrant and cold blooded political murder of a senior governmental figure of a major regional power. The equivalent would be Colin Powell or Mike Pompeo getting...
It's the equivalent of Key's "ektually".
*shrug* - that's just a logical conclusion of identity politics, where your individualism is just subsumed into the demographic boxes you tick.
An absolutely miniscule group.
If she'd run on it as a core plank, yes.
Helen would have found a way to ram it through. Ardern isn't a leader, she's a figurehead.
All those who think it's pragmatic politics, should reflect on the fact that appearances are that National won the debate and forced them to back down. Weakness is seldom rewarded in politics.
"This decision almost certainly shores up coalition arrangements after the next election and deals a fatal blow to National’s slim hopes of returning to power." Comical! What's the point of being in power if you can't implement your core policies. This ...
Ardern...what a coward. Stick to photo ops and feelgood interviews.
Don't forget that the Linwood attack ended with a local returning fire, with a firearm they had on hand.
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