Written By:
lprent -
Date published: 9:29 am, May 16th, 2020 -
16 comments
Categories: covid-19, health, humour, uncategorized
Tags: cats
In terrible news, our feline masters can both get covid-19, and they can infect other cats. Fortunately so far they have largely been asymptomatic apart from some big cats.
We don’t know if there can be cat to human transmission. But I suspect it is likely. Obvious implications about being a issue for breaking transmission chains.
Written By:
lprent -
Date published: 3:33 pm, April 25th, 2020 -
60 comments
Categories: covid-19, Economy, internet, Media, Politics, treasury
Tags: businessdesk, dear sysop, guest post, nzier, stuff, The Spinoff
We put in guest posts occasionally. These days I’m the person who runs the email account and sees the general ones. Mostly I don’t give any feedback as much as anything else because a lack of time. But I should. This is the first to get that editorial attention. The topic itself is worth discussing. What is the process of raising debt for the cobid-19 economic response.
Written By:
mickysavage -
Date published: 7:38 am, April 9th, 2020 -
120 comments
Categories: election 2020, elections, jacinda ardern, labour, MMP, national, paula bennett, politicans, same old national, uncategorized
Tags:
Hot on the news that National’s polling has plunged to 35% Paula Bennett has publicly suggested that the election should be delayed. I wonder if they are related?
Written By:
lprent -
Date published: 11:09 am, April 5th, 2020 -
113 comments
Categories: covid-19, david clark, Economy, health, International
Tags: bbc, david farrar, heather du plessis-allan, new york, new york times, sean plunket
I’m always intrigued at the capacity of most humans to be self-delusional in the way that they favour to believe regardless of facts. Nothing else could explain the delusional idiots like David Farrar and his mischievous minions wanting to go back to their business as usual – their ministerial scalp collection. It’d be nice if such dimwits thought and established facts before they wrote.
Written By:
advantage -
Date published: 9:49 am, March 31st, 2020 -
26 comments
Categories: climate change, Environment, health, health and safety, science, uncategorized
Tags: covid, Covid19
Shouldn’t this global shock from this COVID-19 virus make us all wake up to the power of collective global action on climate change?
Written By:
advantage -
Date published: 6:50 am, March 21st, 2020 -
61 comments
Categories: Deep stuff, health, health and safety, jacinda ardern, uncategorized, workers' rights
Tags:
The Corvid-19 virus is turning us all into cautious conservatives.
Written By:
te reo putake -
Date published: 3:31 pm, March 11th, 2020 -
23 comments
Categories: minimum wage
Tags: Iain Lees-Galloway, minimum wage
Labour have confirmed that they will lift the minimum adult wage on April 1st. This is great news for workers and SME’s!
Written By:
mickysavage -
Date published: 2:19 pm, March 9th, 2020 -
19 comments
Categories: disaster, law, law and "order", national, same old national, uncategorized
Tags:
National has promised a bonfire of regulations. Just like conservatives in Australia, the United Kingdom, America and previous National administrations.
Written By:
mickysavage -
Date published: 7:47 am, March 9th, 2020 -
180 comments
Categories: crime, farming, labour, law, law and "order", national, nz first, police, same old national, uncategorized
Tags:
National and NZ First are frustrating the passage of the Arms Legislation Bill by raising issues that may appeal to extremists but will not make the country a safer place after the Christchurch massacre.
Written By:
mickysavage -
Date published: 8:14 am, March 5th, 2020 -
64 comments
Categories: making shit up, national, same old national, Simon Bridges, spin, tax, uncategorized, you couldn't make this shit up
Tags:
Simon Bridges thinks that tax cuts are the best way to address financial stress caused by businesses by the Covid 19 epidemic. Even though businesses under financial stress will be paying little if any tax and a tax cut would have little if any effect.
Written By:
advantage -
Date published: 7:26 am, March 4th, 2020 -
16 comments
Categories: afghanistan, Donald Trump, International, us politics, war
Tags:
I have really no idea who to cheer for about the Afghanistan peace
agreement. If the Taliban were the answer, it was a pretty fucking
stupid question.
Written By:
mickysavage -
Date published: 6:44 am, February 22nd, 2020 -
148 comments
Categories: climate change, ETS, julie anne genter, law, law and "order", nz first, political parties, uncategorized, winston peters
Tags:
It has been reported that NZ First will oppose the Green’s attempt to make the country’s car fleet more sustainable and that it may hold up proposed gun law changes designed to address the problems clearly shown by the Christchurch massacre.
Written By:
te reo putake -
Date published: 6:30 pm, February 18th, 2020 -
5 comments
Categories: class, Ethics, law and "order", police, prisons, same old national, Satire, uncategorized, you couldn't make this shit up
Tags: basher bennett, bridges, national, satire
BREAKING NEWS: Simon Bridges calls on the leader of the opposition to stand down while the SFO case is before the courts.
Written By:
mickysavage -
Date published: 12:48 pm, February 12th, 2020 -
18 comments
Categories: national, nz first, same old national, Simon Bridges, spin, you couldn't make this shit up
Tags:
In the past 10 days Simon Bridges has said that National will not go into coalition with NZ First after the next election, to it could consider coalition in the future, to there is no way it will ever go into coalition with NZ First.
Written By:
mickysavage -
Date published: 3:46 pm, February 2nd, 2020 -
103 comments
Categories: crime, democratic participation, national, nz first, political parties, same old national, Simon Bridges, winston peters
Tags:
Simon Bridges has mimicked John Key and ruled out National working with NZ First after the election. The difference is however that back then Key ruled out working with NZ First because NZ First was involved in a SFO investigation about the hiding of a $100,000 donation. This time it is National.
Written By:
mickysavage -
Date published: 3:37 pm, January 29th, 2020 -
55 comments
Categories: crime, election 2020, national, same old national
Tags:
The SFO has confirmed that it has charged four persons with offences relating to the receipt of donations by the National Party.
Written By:
mickysavage -
Date published: 11:55 am, January 28th, 2020 -
23 comments
Categories: immigration, International, making shit up, national, same old national, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, you couldn't make this shit up
Tags:
Simon Bridges has wondered out loud if anti semitism stopped the Government from sending a senior representative to a Holocaust memorial in Israel.
Written By:
mickysavage -
Date published: 10:52 am, January 27th, 2020 -
11 comments
Categories: class war, climate change, debt / deficit, Economy, Environment, global warming, making shit up, science, spin, tax, us politics, you couldn't make this shit up
Tags:
US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin has attacked Greta Thunberg for not understanding the economics of climate change. But he has then been roundly criticised by a number of people, including his wife.
Written By:
Guest post -
Date published: 8:24 am, January 10th, 2020 -
168 comments
Categories: education, health, Left, Media, Unions, workers' rights
Tags: Golriz Ghahraman, Mark Richardson
Guest post from old maaaaate cans about recent Stuff guest columns attacking the left for not civilised enough and wondering if it is because of right wing insecurity.
Written By:
nickkelly -
Date published: 11:05 am, December 20th, 2019 -
21 comments
Categories: boris johnson, democratic participation, electoral systems, International, Jeremy Corbyn, MMP, Politics, uk politics
Tags: First Past the Post, MMP, nick kelly, UK Conservatives, UK election 2019, uk labour
Democracy is a precious thing, and not something that can be taken for granted. Having an electoral system where every vote matters is crucial to creating a decent society. It is time that the UK started seriously debating electoral reform and how to improve its democratic systems.
Written By:
mickysavage -
Date published: 8:15 am, December 17th, 2019 -
154 comments
Categories: australian politics, boris johnson, democratic participation, Dirty Politics, Donald Trump, election 2020, elections, jacinda ardern, Jeremy Corbyn, Politics, uk politics, uncategorized
Tags:
The UK election was won not by Russian bots but by older voters with limited technical skills circulating poorly designed ads. What can be done in New Zealand to counter what is clearly a right wing campaign tactic?
Written By:
weka -
Date published: 7:10 am, December 16th, 2019 -
178 comments
Categories: Brexit, community democracy, democratic participation, Left, uk politics
Tags: dissent, UK election, UK election 2019
What stands out for me are the voices of the people who are saying actually, there were solid reasons for abandoning Labour, this is why I did. There’s something important here about really listening to dissent and being willing to engage with views that don’t make sense in the context of our own personal ideologies.
Written By:
Bill -
Date published: 9:24 am, December 11th, 2019 -
10 comments
Categories: Bernie Sanders, elections, Jeremy Corbyn, journalism, making shit up, Media, Propaganda, uk politics, us politics
Tags: Corbyn, John Grace, propaganda, the guardian
It’s said that in times of war, the first casualty is truth. Well, since truth is taking such a pummeling these days, it follows that we are at war, no?
Written By:
mickysavage -
Date published: 8:29 am, December 6th, 2019 -
110 comments
Categories: making shit up, Media, national, same old national, spin, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, uk politics, you couldn't make this shit up
Tags: crosby textor, topham guerin
New Zealand and the United Kingdom are both cursed with the right wing parties having the same advisors and similar means of campaigning
Written By:
mickysavage -
Date published: 8:09 am, December 5th, 2019 -
85 comments
Categories: Donald Trump, Parliament, uk politics, uncategorized
Tags:
There are indications that Elizabeth the UK Queen may stand down from her office in the next two years. That may be the perfect time for Aotearoa New Zealand to cast aside constitutional provisions based on heredity and become constitutionally independent of the old country.
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