Looks like Costello may be off the hook... Between Tuesday and Thursday there was also, of course, a helluva lot of pressure on the prime minister and his associate minister of health, Casey Costello. RNZ revealed she’d sought advice about freezing tobacco...
Dunno what the hell you're on about. If you're trying to suggest that you don't comprehend the principle of minority rights, why not just say that??
Same, but her passion does seem to work for her audience as per tradition. She risks seeming shrill when she does that style though.
Yeah, the party problem. They're all guilty. They will eventually have to face up to admitting that censoring elderly members is a suppression of minority rights - until then they will seem clueless in public whenever they do it. Of course they will whine ...
None of those expressions of feeling fit the criteria specified: "explaining the details of Labour's adoption of co-governance." The obvious facts to search for are the day the policy was adopted by the party, and the actual event that produced the ...
Yeah.
Bomber's view of Chloe: she has stood out as an intellectual and philosophical giant for the Left. Her ability to articulate and promote progressive ideas and values is a once in a generation talent. She’s the Jacinda we all wished Jacinda could have been....
I'm not sure if she is the best person for the job Likewise, but I cited her greatest hits when I saw them on Wikipedia, because it gave her more substance & credibility than I thought she actually had - I was impressed! Shame she can't grasp that minority...
You really believe she's not typical in that situation?? Your grasp of reality really is rather marginal. Anyway her lack of interest in relevant details of situations was so widely reported in the media for so long I don't really need to advocate the ...
Rather than trying to predict their behaviour, best to wait & see what they do. If they fail to promote a leftist alternative, everyone will assume they're still just hot air.
And more credit is due - he also said at the end of the day. Bit late for speech training, unfortunately.
Ah, the plausible deniability play. When producing party policy documents, initial suggestions have individual authors. Compilations may, but when accepted by the party via a formal decision as draft policy, they become group-authored so they show up as ...
Another strong contender: Housing Minister Chris Bishop said: "They're both harmful, I am certainly addicted to caffeine, I’ve had four coffees today." It makes him feel so speedy he imagines running rings around everyone all the time. Gets him right off. ...
So Chloe launches her bid 11am tomorrow: https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/350164491/live-chloe-swarbrick-announce-co-leadership-bid I expect the Green Left Network to put up an alternative candidate, if only to try & prove they ain't as pathetic as their ...
Grow up. Any parent of young children will correct your view real fast.
Complicity with tobacco companies is detailed here, providing names linking occupations to National & NZF: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2024/02/experts-detail-swathe-of-possible-connections-between-coalition-government-politicians-and-tobacco-...
Both tv news channels led with the Costello story. One's reporter said she was dancing on the head of a pin, but 3's political editor seemed unable to grasp an obvious angle. Think the story will grow legs tomorrow when more capable analysts pitch in.
Maybe this guy has more substance than the wokester thing suggests... One of his flagship policies was the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Bill, which he promised would streamline existing legislation as well as add additional protections to ...
Sheesh, did they actually do all that?? After 17 years as the dominant force in Scottish politics, the SNP is running neck-and-neck with Labour. The reason: it allowed itself to get seriously out of step with Scotland’s voters. The Scots are well-educated ...
He was scheduled to visit there last July but Google can't find news that it got rescheduled to this year. If it was, and he flew, I'd expect various attempts to make his plane suffer a tragic event in obscure circumstances...
am I not understanding properly and it's unlikely to happen? Applying stats to quakes is more art than science. I did geophysics long ago & the odds are always indicative of likelihood. My take is that govt ought to do serious contingency planning for the ...
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 ...
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