Edwards typically pulls together a variety of opinion, and then draws his own conclusions. In this piece, Edwards cites "long-time Green Party commentator Gordon Campbell", "leftwing political commentator Steven Cowan", "The Herald’s Thomas Coughlan", and ...
Bryce Edwards has a piece published on TDB (Dr Bryce Edwards Political Roundup: The Civil war in the Greens | The Daily Blog) that set's out the internal warfare going on in the Greens. I genuinely hope the environmental arm win out. I genuinely doubt they...
Throughout the events of recent days, one man has stood out for his dignity and mana. Adrian Rurawhe, take a bow.
"It is surprising that National should rule out Te Maori Party. This party kept John Key in power for three terms." No it didn't. In 2011, Nats + Act + UF had 61 seats. National didn't need TPM. In 2014, Nats won 60 seats on their own, and with Act had 61 ...
Which is weird because it relies heavily on the Scottish Water model which has been in place for 20 years and has been shown to work. Really? The number of recorded sewage spills in Scotland's rivers and seas has increased by 40% over the last five years, ...
Yes, thanks for the link. In the first part he is quite right - ongoing investment is required, and Council's under current funding restrictions can't fund it. In the second part, he is justifying a separate set of entities on the basis that they will be ...
Except no-one is suggesting we do nothing. Not even the puppies.
Care to comment on what Graham Adams actually had to say?
"That is a fact." No, it's an assertion you are making without any evidence. Conversely, at the equivalent time that Ardern resigned, Key and Clark were polling well above her numbers. Just accept it.
"You claimed I made stuff up, " You did. You claimed "it's normal for incumbents to go through a mid term slump." I showed you that both Key and Clark were polling better than Ardern at the same time of their premiership. In early January 2014, Key polled ...
Maybe, but then it's the government whose trying to sell a pup.
A dog with a new name is still a dog.
"Has the ability of iwi to issue Te Mana o te Wai statements been removed? " As Graham Adams states: The statements are the dirty little secret within the Three Waters set-up that the government would much prefer the public didn’t understand, or even know ...
The second link is from March, not the beginning of the year, so you're cherry picking, which is hardly surprising. At the equivalent time of the election year that Ardern resigned (19 January 2023), meaning January 2008, Clark was on 50%, Key on 39%. ...
"Issues had been identified years ago, but nothing was done. " Yep. The buck stops with the people who let Auckland's responsiveness get so run down, and that would start with the High Commissioner to the UK. "The bottom line is Auckland's bumbling bunch ...
"John key polled higher than Helen Clark for most preferred PM 2007" You make a lot of stuff up without sourcing. Fact check - at the start of the 2008 election year, Helen Clark was polling at 50%. Where was Ardern again, at the beginning of the 2023 ...
"2008, Labour had already done three terms, remember?" Yes, and yet Clark's preferred PM numbers were far far higher than Arderns after less than 2.
"Well, you don't actually know what the outcome of the 2023 election will be..." Yes, but we know the outcome of the 2008 election...did you miss the point? BTW - you're doing an outstanding job of defending the biggest policy dump in christendom
Where to start. Perhaps with TDP's own words: "Disinformation Project researcher Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa said the outpouring of hate towards the trans community triggered by Posie Parker's visit is beyond anything he has seen." Seriously? Where have you been,...
"The trend still had Jacinda as most preferred PM." There you go again. So was Helen Clark. Who won the 2008 election? "Hipkins followed through with a directive that PM Ardern had already made to her ministers last year, which was, to go through the ...
"I am not making shit up..." Well yeah, you are. You said "Besides it's normal for incumbents to go through a mid term slump.", which the numbers show is wrong. But parking that, the preferred PM numbers are far less relevant than the trend. At the ...
"It's not about having better lines, it is normal for incumbents to go through a mid term slump." So you claim, but without any evidence. John Key's number were far above Jacinda Arderns at the same time of his premiership. The earliest poll I can find for...
"Besides it's normal for incumbents to go through a mid term slump." You need to get better lines. Jacinda Ardern 'resigned' at the beginning of her 6th year in office. At the same time of his tenure (in early 2014), John Key polled (in the same One News ...
"Already addressed in the previous post and my point is, for the umpteenth time, is that polling had Ardern as most preferred PM." Irrelevant. Her popularity had dropped by 50%, and her net favourables were negative. I'm not sure there is a precedent for ...
"Fact is Ardern remained the country's most preferred PM." So? That's almost certainly due to incumbency. My comment was "Her polling was dropping like a stone". That is not even up for debate, unless you think a decline from 58% to 29% is somehow positive...
My comment "Her polling was dropping like a stone" is easily verifiable, if you had bothered. There is a graph here that shows the huge drop in her popularity between late 2020 and Jan 2023. Taking the OneNews/Kantar poll as an example, Arderns preferred ...
Sure, but none of that speaks to why our kids should be taught to: "interrogate dominant discourses and assumptions, including that maths is benign, neutral, and culture-free." Because maths is all of those things. Also, there is no place in maths to ...
Amen.
Good questions. Chris Lynch wrote this piece on ACT's take. ACT slams Government's "completely nuts" plan to teach maths for social justice calling it an ideological experiment — Chris Lynch Newsroom (chrislynchmedia.com)
Me three.
Culture doesn't care about the square root of 49.
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