Seems like no one has posted this in the Open Mike for the last few days - a piece by Al Jazeera about the Corbyn-era anti-Semitism crisis in the UK's Labour party: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/9/25/what-really-happened-during-labours-anti-semitism-...
No actually I think incrementalism is disastrous, and even though Labour ran on the promise of climate change being our nuclear free moment, they haven't been doing enough - with or without the Greens. My main point is that realistically the Greens have ...
Thanks for the clarification and response Weka.
This seems to be an ongoing problem for the Greens - and it comes as much from it's own membership and other left commentators as it does from the right. Sometimes it feels like there's no worse enemy for left-wingers than other left-wingers. The media ...
Well to say this post is disappointing is an understatement. The Standard is often a refuge of sane, well-done commentary on political and social problems affecting NZ (and sometimes, overseas). This post is like the entry passport to a conspiracy rabbit ...
Fantastic news. For too long successive governments have kicked the can down the road and done little to address the problems with the DHB model of running healthcare. There’s already been back-end changes like having more centralized accounts departments ...
Chris Trotter is more and more taking over from Whale Oil these days. Just ignore him.
handing over the monarchy to Prince Philip Typo in first paragraph. [Bugger I thought I had fixed that. Now corrected thanks - MS]
" Or Buttigieg’s political wonkery of abolishing the electoral college " To be fair, that system is a complete mess and even John Oliver did a whole segment on how undemocratic it is, and that the democrats absolutely needed to abolish it before the next ...
I’ve always been impressed by James Shaw’s ability to get stuff done. It seems that some Green members would prefer a leader who takes a harder line, makes good radical sound bites and refuses to deal with the dirty opposition. I’m grateful we’ve got ...
All good points. That voxy story Clive linked to above cracks me up - National just can't drop talking about measly tax cuts and roads. What a broken record.
Good luck to National trying to spin this one. Labour = good economic management, and they consistently produce the numbers to back that up.
Who in their right mind would go to Paula Bennett for help with this!? Going to see Little Miss “I’ll leak personal details when it’s to my political advantage” about a sexual assault complaint?
The minute Paula Bennett strangely turned up as somehow privy to secret information about an internal Labour Party issue I started to worry. Is this another Donghui Liu affair which will turn out to be fabricated? I hope not because there are very real ...
His comments on regulations crack me up - getting rid of two regulations for every one passed? So soon we’ll end up a society with hardly any regulations? That’ll end well.
There seems to be a real lack of thoughtful analysis on this in Western media. All it comes down to in most coverage (including this post) is China = bad, West = good. Take this for example: “Hong Kong’s contest of protesters with the Chinese government”. ...
Truly a bizarre post yesterday. I had to check whether it was April 1st. I didn’t get time to respond to Advantage, so I’ll put it here: If you fly internationally, that one flight will be the biggest contributor to carbon you make in the year - more than ...
It’s okay to say that epidemiological studies have identified lifestyle factors that increase the risk of bowel cancer, but even people without those risk factors can still get cancer. So both points being made in this thread are correct: diet, exercise, ...
Good call. This proposal is a train wreck waiting to happen, and I’m genuinely concerned it could end up going ahead. People won’t see past the face value headlines or shallow media coverage, and the idea of “more money for cancer treatment” will sound ...
This is classic left-wing hand wringing leading to self-immolation. Honestly, sometimes a left-wingers worst enemy is other left-wingers. So, we’ve had 9 years of flagrant economic mismanagement under National, who would do things like (and this is by no ...
Yeah I just saw Bryce Edwards column too, and was left wondering why we have to endure such superficial “political commentators” in NZ. Completely agree with the assessment here that his language of liberal elites etc is pure Crosby Textor; seems more like...
Just thought I should chip in on the real benefit here: health. As a health researcher it saddens me that the EV discussion is always about climate change. Although environmental impacts are a medium to long term effect of internal combustion engines, they...
Right on cue “industry insiders” and farmers raise complaints: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/393967/clean-car-discount-supply-standard-ignores-consultations-imported-motor-vehicle-association
Just stumbled across this website via an ad: https://www.keepourmoneyclean.govt.nz/ John Key government: try to turn NZ into a money laundering hub. Current government: do the opposite.
That seems to be John Key-speak for fraudulently inflated.
Especially if you went in 2000 times! ;)
Frankly, if you ask most workplaces for a timeline of everyone’s actions on a particular day you’ll get differing accounts. Saying the timelines or explanations don’t agree is evidence of lying or collusion is conspiratorial thinking. People’s accounts ...
For once, I agree with Simon Bridges! His assessment of Maureen Pugh in that leaked phone conversation was actually spot on ;)
I haven't been proven wrong - a mock-up website, used as a backup and as a sandbox for making web edits, can often use the same indexing system as the live site. I've worked on websites with this same set-up. According the public info, this is how the ...
It required them to do 2000 searches over 48 hrs to glean and paste together enough detail. Pity there’s no reporters with half a brain who thought this through and asked Bridges how many person-hours of labour went into their amazing “scoop” of revealing ...
Well, now the actual budget is out, who cares about Bridges leak (apart from Bridges himself of course). Which comes back to what was the whole point of that fiasco anyway - revealing a few tidbits of information that were going to be made public (in fact,...
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