I think this song is a silver lining from the lockdown. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nZQRt4BXr8
Sir Keir Starmer has been elected as leader of the British Labour Party. Good luck to him, hopefully they can rebuild for the 2024 election.
NZ Herald is on the version of PressReader available through Dunedin Public Libraries. So is the ODT. I don't see the Dom Post or the Press on it, though, so there might just be different licensing options depending on different libraries.
I think this speaks to the dangers of having too much media in the hands of too few proprietors. Not just in terms of editorial line, but also if a company starts going into a death spiral, too much may be lost - which would be a risk of a Stuff-NZME ...
Gold star to whoever came up with the alert level system. Far better than abrupt, ad-hoc changes.
The Anti-Defamation League covers the ok sign at length at https://www.adl.org/blog/how-the-ok-symbol-became-a-popular-trolling-gesture The terrorist’s ancillary actions - apparently his manifesto was littered with internet memes, there was his declaration...
Contrapoints on how to recognise a fascist. https://youtu.be/Sx4BVGPkdzk
This videos - produced in January - looks at radicalisation, the alt-right and online discourse. I think this is relevant to the conversation. https://youtu.be/xMabpBvtXr4
I have a profound sadness today. I feel so impotent in the face of all this. I wish I could do something.
Minor correction - your third link is a piece by Andrew Geddis, not Russell Brown.
Worth did leave parliament in disgrace, though. Maybe the rumour mill was already at play in 2005.
https://youtu.be/M1cMnM-UJ5U
They want to bring in a Chinese style internet filter to NZ. And, well, first they’ll go after porn because most people are too embarrassed to defend it. Then it’s a slippery slope to other forms of speech online. This survey is a figleaf for a puritanical...
It's always been a case of brinksmanship. Invoking Art. 50 before starting negotiations gave them a ticking clock from the start and the expectations the UK government had were always unrealistic. Cameron probably should have negotiated an exit deal before...
The public was very clear on its position in the 2013 asset sales referendum voting 2:1 against sales. NZ had been down that path before and when the government had built the dams and powerplants, it really should be the government that holds on to them.
Proctor and Gamble are the parent company. They outline their efforts at https://us.pg.com/gender-equality/
I don’t care whether men buy Gillette or not. I just get whatever disposables are on special. But honestly, I find the snivelling sense of victimhood over a mere advertisement to be profoundly unmanly in itself. Like a hoard of Joffrey Baratheons have ...
Of course I don't think much of Brownlee. For the record I'm a long-time Labour supporter as any trawl through the comment archives here will establish. I want Labour to continue demonstrating strong ethics in government. The National Party's standards are...
who cares what you think ovid Public opinion is everything in ...
I don't really care about the politics of this. I just can't stand bullies. I know the Prime Minister's hands are tied - she can't expel Whaitiri from Parliament - but that can't stop me from holding a poor opinion of Whaitiri and hoping she won't be ...
She keeps her two important portfolios and all the perks and pay that come with being a minister. In moving to an outside cabinet role her salary drops from $288,900 to $243,841. So her fuckup cost her $45,000 p.a. https://www.parliament.nz/media/3151/...
Don't forget, the Aussies have a new PM. That's quite a few competing stories to dominate the news cycle.
I've never really been a fan of Curran and after the RNZ shenanigans I felt her to be a liability - more in terms of being an example of the Peter Principle. Perhaps with this demotion she can focus on broadcasting and prove me wrong.
I'm fine with my curiosity going unsated if the leaker is suicidal over this. But they should be counseled to get out of politics if they can't deal with this kind of stress. Perhaps a dignified exit a few months from now.
"The Catholic Church is an institution I am bound to hold divine - but for unbelievers a proof of its divinity might be found in the fact that no merely human institution conducted with such knavish imbecility would have lasted a fortnight." - Hilaire ...
Putin will want Assange dead now. Assange knows too much about the collusion between Russia and Trump and has a lot of incentive to cut a deal with the Mueller investigation should he be extradited to the US. The guy had better watch out for a novichok-...
Best of luck to all the nurses, midwives and other health staff on the pickets tomorrow. I hope the weather improves. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwbzxemJZIc
Having been excluded from the UK, Southern fails the good character requirements for entry to NZ. She would need positive approval from the Minister of Immigration to get a visa. So really what the Minister is being asked is to do nothing.
Well, you can’t stop the signal.
I heard he took two hard-boiled lollies from the bowl.
The Irish Times exit poll points to a landslide win for Yes in the referendum to legalise abortion in Ireland. 68-32. Which is even bigger than 2015’s marriage equality vote of 62-38.
Cats, with their independent spirit and beguiling purrs, have captured the hearts of humans for millennia. In New Zealand, felines are no exception, boasting the highest national cat ownership rate globally [definition cat nz cat foundation]. An estimated 1.134 million pet cats grace Kiwi households, compared to 683,000 dogs ...
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