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  1. Why is the UK’s only youth gender identity clinic closing, and what does this mean for New Zealand?

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 1:13 pm, July 29th, 2022 -  76 comments
    Categories: gender critical feminism
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    The NHS is shutting down its gender identity clinic for children after a damning review found that it failed vulnerable under-18s.

  2. Act on climate

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 6:15 am, July 27th, 2022 -  27 comments
    Categories: climate change, disaster, nature, sustainability
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    Everything we do matters. Stories of hope and renewal.

  3. Wear your #$%^& mask properly

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 10:38 am, July 16th, 2022 -  90 comments
    Categories: chris bishop, Christopher Luxon, covid-19, health, national, same old national
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    Although we still compare favourably to the vast majority of Western nations in terms of our Covid response our performance has been eclipsed by Japan and Singapore, two nations which strong mask mandates and cultural norms supporting the wearing of masks.

  4. Nonsense Auckland Council PR

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 12:34 pm, June 30th, 2022 -  19 comments
    Categories: auckland supercity, Environment, local government, supercity, sustainability, transport, uncategorized
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    Sometimes the egregious spin gets too much.  And when developers who want a compact urban form are telling Auckland Council that its plans are not working you know Auckland Council has a problem.

  5.  Gang Control Policy Is Back Big Time

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 6:08 pm, June 12th, 2022 -  16 comments
    Categories: Christopher Luxon, Deep stuff, labour, law, law and "order", national, same old national
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    We are about to have a proper gang control  policy contest. It’s about time.

  6. Jacinda Ardern’s Harvard University Commencement speech

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 11:17 am, May 27th, 2022 -  51 comments
    Categories: jacinda ardern
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    Video and transcript of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s speech at Harvard.

  7. How Russia Loses

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 2:05 pm, May 26th, 2022 -  90 comments
    Categories: Economy, International, Russia, uncategorized, war
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    Even after just four months it is time count what Russia has lost and will continue to lose.

  8. How to get the progressive government we want

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 9:59 am, May 23rd, 2022 -  95 comments
    Categories: democratic participation, election 2023, greens, labour, maori party
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    What if instead of waiting for a new left wing party to arise, the left worked with the three progressive parties we already have in parliament?

  9. Justice for Shaireen

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 12:11 pm, May 16th, 2022 -  30 comments
    Categories: International, israel, war
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    The spotlight is again on Israel after the senseless shooting of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh allegedly by an Israeli army sniper and on the subsequent disruption of her funeral by Israeli defence forces.

  10. Is Parker procrastinating or scene setting for fairer tax system?

    Written By:  Simon Louisson -  Date published: 3:40 pm, April 27th, 2022 -  49 comments
    Categories: capital gains, david parker, Economy, inequality, Politics, tax
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    Is Revenue Minister David Parker’s plan to gather tax data on the wealthy just more procrastination by this Labour government on making the tax system fairer? Or is it recognition the public debate needs a long-term frame to get a capital gains, or wealth tax, over the line?

  11. UK government signals urgent inquiry into overmedicalisation of gender non-conforming children

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 11:24 am, April 24th, 2022 -  40 comments
    Categories: feminism, gender, gender critical feminism, health
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    This is a medical scandal affecting children and teens, and the left is still largely in denial of it.

  12. According to National budget slashing is a man’s job

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:03 am, April 23rd, 2022 -  91 comments
    Categories: bill english, Christopher Luxon, national, nicola willis, same old national
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    National leader Chris Luxon has publicly declared full confidence in National Finance Spokesperson Nicola Willis by proposing that former PM Bill English, not currently an MP, and Willis, who is an MP would be jointly directing the Ministers of every department to find savings.

  13. Does truth in politics no longer matter?

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:10 am, April 15th, 2022 -  68 comments
    Categories: boris johnson, immigration, politicans, uk politics
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    Over in the UK Boris Johnson has been fined for attending a party he told Parliament he did not attend and which was a gathering that did not breach Covid lockdown restrictions.  Surely he should resign.

  14. Grumpy mod note

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 10:21 am, April 9th, 2022 -  28 comments
    Categories: admin
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    Please read if you are commenting at The Standard.

  15. Greens call for rent freeze

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 12:56 pm, April 7th, 2022 -  151 comments
    Categories: greens, tenants' rights
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    The Green Party has published a reasonable plan to make renting more affordable for low income New Zealanders. There’s nothing extreme-communist-scary here, it’s well within the values of the NZ electorate.

  16. Water and Money

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 7:26 am, April 7th, 2022 -  20 comments
    Categories: Deep stuff, Environment, labour, Nanaia Mahuta, water
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    If the 3 Waters reforms can survive its attacks and be implemented, a consequence will be that we are going to have a most enormous nationwide economic argument about the price of water and who pays for it all.

  17. Kia kaha Louisa Wall

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:25 pm, March 31st, 2022 -  10 comments
    Categories: gay rights, human rights, labour, Parliament
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    Earlier this week Louisa Wall announced that she is retiring as a Member of Parliament.  History will confirm that she was one of our best Parliamentarians.

  18. Why Sweden is changing its gender transition policy for children and young people

    Written By:  Guest post -  Date published: 8:15 am, March 18th, 2022 -  105 comments
    Categories: child welfare, gender, health
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    In the last couple of weeks, Sweden has joined a small, but growing number of countries that have changed their policies regarding medical gender transition for children.

  19. Pick a side

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 7:00 am, March 17th, 2022 -  351 comments
    Categories: climate change, Deep stuff, global warming, grant robertson, International, jacinda ardern, Russia, science, us politics
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    Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelinsky has made a direct appeal broadcast to the United States Congress. That will sort out the Putin supporters from the rest.  And with climate change beckoning it is time to pick a side.

  20. The latest poll

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 7:54 pm, March 10th, 2022 -  124 comments
    Categories: act, greens, labour, national, polls
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    National/Act (47%) would beat Labour/Greens (46%) if there were an election held tomorrow, according to the latest One News Kantar poll.

  21. The International Legion of Territorial Defence

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 7:30 am, March 7th, 2022 -  107 comments
    Categories: International, Russia, United Nations
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    However much infighting there was on the Spanish Republican side between leftists, Communists, anarchists and others, you could be confident that the Nazis were on the other side.  In the Ukraine it is not so simple.

  22. Putin threatens Nuclear War

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:27 am, February 28th, 2022 -  254 comments
    Categories: Russia, war
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    Vladimir Putin, obviously hurting because some of his personal ill gotten wealth has been frozen has upped the ante by raising the spectre of the use of Nuclear Weapons.

  23. Omicron is not mild

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 6:10 am, February 24th, 2022 -  76 comments
    Categories: covid-19, long covid
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    More people in the US have died from Omicron than Delta. In New Zealand we, collectively, still have a choice about just how bad this is going to get. Not everyone is going to contract covid in this wave, and there is great value to individuals and society in slowing spread and avoiding getting covid where possible.

  24. Can this government get re-elected?

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 10:56 am, February 13th, 2022 -  34 comments
    Categories: climate change, covid-19, Economy, energy, health, housing, jacinda ardern, labour, polls, poverty, public transport, transport, uncategorized
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    Where will the votes come from to get Labour a third term? 

  25. Big developments in Beijing

    Written By:  Mike Smith -  Date published: 4:44 pm, February 7th, 2022 -  31 comments
    Categories: China, Iran, kremlinology, leadership, Peace, political alternatives, Russia, United Nations
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    The meeting between Putin and Xi Jinping is likely to set the geopolitical direction for the 21st century. If ‘divide and rule’ was the mantra for the US’s hegemonic rule in the 20th century, ‘unite and share’ looks like setting the tone for the 21st. Co-operation rather than competition is the mantra, and “friendship between the two states has no limits.” A truly remarkable turnaround.

  26. And what have they done anyway?

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 7:41 am, February 2nd, 2022 -  107 comments
    Categories: climate change, covid-19, education, Environment, health, housing, jacinda ardern, labour, law and "order", poverty, uncategorized, Unions
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    With Ardern getting a good-old media beat-down, remember here’s how to change a country for good like no one else but Labour can.

  27. Prisoners of the Narrative #1

    Written By:  Mike Smith -  Date published: 4:30 pm, January 23rd, 2022 -  Comments Off on Prisoners of the Narrative #1
    Categories: boris johnson, kremlinology, military, Peace, Propaganda, uk politics, us politics
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    Robert Ayson’s advocacy of a sanctions regime for New Zealand in case of a  Russian invasion of Ukraine is a bad idea based on poor intelligence.The “Russian invasion” narrative was always a beat-up, and there is no support from major players in Europe for sanctions such as removal from the SWIFT payment system. Russia’s claim for border security is reasonable and essential for peace.

  28. New Zealand’s Omicron options

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 2:31 pm, January 17th, 2022 -  101 comments
    Categories: covid-19, long covid, vaccines
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    It will be a few days before we know if the omicron variant of Covid-19 is starting to spread in New Zealand. There are things we can be doing that will determine how that goes.

  29. What does Luxon do about Hipango?

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:31 am, January 11th, 2022 -  49 comments
    Categories: Christopher Luxon, covid-19, health, national, same old national
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    Harete Hipango is in the news again, this time for posing with a group of anti vaxxers and posting a photo and making some pretty way out there comments on social media.

  30. Let’s punch for peace

    Written By:  Mike Smith -  Date published: 4:28 pm, December 30th, 2021 -  34 comments
    Categories: uncategorized
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    Today’s Herald editorial says New Zealand ‘wisely’ doesn’t punch above its weight in  military activities. That’s not true – I remember sailing around the nuclear-powered USS Truxtun as it entered harbour in a Wellington gale. It was just one of many flotillas campaigning against nuclear weapons and nuclear war that resulted in a knockout – New Zealand’s suspension from the ANZUS alliance on a point of principle.

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