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Pissing-Off The Israelis Is A High-Risk Strategy
Ever since the election of Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the British Labour Party, the Israelis have sanctioned, funded and organised one of their most shameless interventions, ever, in the domestic affairs of a sovereign nation.
Why the attacks on Jacinda won’t stop
The damage won't be caused by National attacking Jacinda, it will be the woke who will cause the deepest cuts.
TWITTER WATCH: Rightwing National Party Stormtrooper manages to find a new...
One second National Party Stormtroopers are crying crocodile tears about alleged abuse against women, and then the next second they are right back on track with their Misogyny narrative...
GUEST BLOG: Louie Encabo – Former Philippine Cabinet member to...
Dr. Judy Taguiwalo, former Philippine Secretary for Social Welfare and Development in the Cabinet of President Rodrigo Duterte, will be in New Zealand on...
PUB POLITICS: Goff Vs Tamihere 8pm Tuesday 17th live @ Chapel...
Pub Politics Ep 3 live from Chapel Bar on Ponsonby Rd this Tuesday
$100,000 CEO pay Rise a slap in the face, say Port...
The release yesterday of Port Otago’s financial result for 2019, outlining a 12% increase and profits, including the news that the Chief Executive had...
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The Abigail Article and My Response
As a blogger, I will continue to write for those who are marginalised, attacked, scorned, and powerless. I will continue to support Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals, and Transpeople to be included in our society and to have the same rights and privileges straight cis people take for granted.
Warning! Warning! Danger Jacinda Ardern! Danger Marama Davidson! Warning!
IF THE SEXUAL ASSAULT scandal engulfing the Prime Minister’s office hasn’t been properly dealt with by the time you read this, Labour’s in big trouble.
Imagine the uproar if any other Political Party self censored the way the Greens...
Instead of breaking free from the intellectual self censorship that is puritan Millennial micro-aggression policing Identity Politics culture, the Greens doubled down and just forced the opinion piece off a platform that is supposedly editorially independent of the Party.
Nu Zilind Gothic – Primary Sector Privilege Needs to End
They will never admit it, but the cowboys of New Zealand’s raw resource extractive economy are privileged.
UPDATE: In defence of Jacinda Ardern’s handling of the sex scandal & the danger...
No one else is defending Jacinda, so dammit I will.
Labour burn KiwiBuild to save the village, except there’s no village – but they...
The madness of using the free market to solve a problem caused by an unregulated free market has finally been buried.
Suicide rates skyrocket, public housing wait list explodes to 12,644 while beneficiaries queue at...
I don't know what's more disappointing, the lack of transformation or the Prime Minister's embarrassing attempt to redefine the meaning of transformative into whatever bare majority she can cobble together.
Where We Stood: Chris Trotter replies to Stevan Eldred-Grigg.
SHOULD NEW ZEALAND have declared war on Germany on 3 September 1939? This is the startling question posed by Stevan Eldred-Grigg, one of New Zealand’s more interesting historians, in an essay posted on The Spinoff.
TWITTER WATCH: Ummmmm – why did Simon Bridges meet with the leader of China’s...
Why is the Leader of the Opposition meeting with the leader of China's Secret Police while being chaperoned by a National Party MP who is alleged to be a Chinese spy?
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Kafka’s Shadow: My hearing against NZ Police & secret trials
It is important that this precedent is not allowed. The State are trying this on when they don't think anyone is looking. Secret trials and secret evidence require enormous checks and balances which the Human Review Tribunal has been too underfunded to enable.
Bomber delivers his run-down on the week's big political issues
