Hence why Rudman is getting the sack.
I think these polls need to be treated with cautious optimism. The one a fews days ago (One News?) seems to paint the opposite. Looking over the last several months there seems to be a positive trend. The opposition has gone from drowning to treading water...
I hope this gets picked up by John Oliver. He really takes delight in taking the piss out of us lately. Perhaps I'll send him a tweet with a hope that it'll get picked up.
I've penned an editorial to try make sense of this week's bizarre political circus. I've even coined new terminology: The Rugby-Industrial Complex. This week has really been the angry cynical culmination of my hatred of this stupid third-term National ...
Can we also get an investigation into the brutal human rights record of the potential sheep farm's host nation?
I think Don "trump card" Trump suffers from this too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvPNLtziUOk
House price rise increases inequality - English. No shit Bill! What have you been doing about that? http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/political/279353/house-price-rise-increases-inequality-english
Job cuts are just the tip of the iceberg. http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/rural/279014/farm-mortgagee-sales-climbing
Wind Back the Clock
More union hate: http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/regional/275984/meatworkers-punished-over-union-material
A somewhat verified source has told me the Julie Christie's strategy for TV3 is to put in a rubbish journalism show on at 7 pm for a 6 month contract, let it fail, then when the dust from Campbell's demise settles replace it with some vacuous reality TV ...
No problem. Well there is a problem… Not you. The cutting of Campbell Live.
Here's my theoretical blog piece on Campbell Live. "Campbell Live and its Discontents: The Culture Industry, Repressive Desublimation, and Investigative Journalism in New Zealand" http://potentialhumanist.blogspot.co.nz/2015/05/campbell-live-and-its-...
This one's a goodie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f6qRwp8YwE
Okay maybe in hindsight it sounds Xenophobic but I certainly didn't mean it that way, or in an anti-immigrant way. I meant it in the loose regulation specifically regarding foreign property speculation in contrast to other OECD countries. Also, I don't see...
What Tobby Morris has failed to point, and I think he should amend this, is the foreigners moving at the top floor and evicting those on the floors below them forcing them to move further down the building. I'm sure National's working class voters would be...
Thanks :)
... Campbell or Adorno, or both ;) Brendan.
"We'll march day and night by the big cooling tower. They have the plant but we have the power."
I've offered some interpretation of the mediocre coverage of the terrorist attack in Kenya today. It certainly says something about the erosion of the Fourth Estate into a corporate mouthpiece. "For an attack on such a prominent institution of free speech,...
"They are led by an invisible hand to make nearly the same distribution of the necessaries of life, which would have been made, had the earth been divided into equal portions among all its inhabitants…" The great classical liberal Adam Smith. Pay ...
Cheer up Mandy, it may not be as dire as you have been led to believe. Climate scientist Judith Curry walked off the 'consensus reservation' five years ago following the revelations of 'climategate', and has subsequently expresses some hope for the future ...
Sorry, Perhaps I should just insert the actual piece into the comment? his is a one time link rather than one in a series of plugs. No intention to spam every Standard comment space with links. I just though my piece (which I wrote a couple of years ago ...
Hello Standard readers, Excellent post today. If anyone is interested in my slightly more (loosely) philosophical take on Labour Day I've written a short piece on my intellectual musing blog right here. There's a few other cool essays I've written ...
Looking forward to 3 years of the Porn Star Economy… I wince at the thought of turning the heater on. Bills, Bills, Bills.
They'd be stupid to shoot themselves in the foot like that and go back on all the people who voted for a change in government. They can't ignore a growing political force such as the Green Party. I know dozens, possibly more that voted for them today and ...
150,000 jobs in 100 days? Key's joking right? They haven't done that in six years.
Hey team, Long time reader, first time poster—and what a post! It just kept going. Beat mainstream soundbite commentary. That's why we come here isn't it. Anyway... It's a week out from the general elections and I'm hedging my bets and these are my ...
"I tend to think the schools have got it about right on IT." Strongly disagree. It's about preparing younger generations for a future increasingly reliant on layers and layers of technology. "If a high school student wants to learn some programming they ...
... to run its course. Regards, Brendan
A recent New Zealand Government report indicated that 63% of all children who are most at risk of poverty and disadvantage were born to a mother under 20 years of age. http://www.dpmc.govt.nz/sites/all/files/publications/555108-cab-paper-six-monthly-report...
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