The Daily Blog Open Mic – Monday 31st December 2018
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
Year: 2018
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GUEST BLOG: Gerard Otto – Holding National to Account
Under National an increasing large number of people could overstay for ten years or more by rolling over their temporary visas and there was simply not enough money to monitor them…let alone the employers exploiting migrant workers.
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GUEST BLOG: Ross Meurant – RUSSIA PHOBIA
since WW Two, American generated paranoia amongst its allies and the “International Community” (a figment of American mentality with no legal or actual substance and conceived to replace the United Nations as America’s puppet when they realised, they could no longer guarantee majority support in the institution they conceived in 1947), has run riot.
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Chris Bishop – The Patron Saint of Niche Policy
Of all the things that need our immediate attention in this country – bring your own piss to horse gambling day seems pretty bloody low on the list right?
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TWITTER WATCH: Best Left Wing Pundit 2018
…start immense hatred and bitchy comments now!
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Sunday 30th December 2018
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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2018 – the year that weirdly was (1)
In many respects, 2018 was a strange year in politics. From weird gender-focused terminology to ongoing subterranean machinations within the National Party as it came to grips with being in Opposition – 2018 was one for the history books.
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GUEST BLOG: Hone Harawira – A very Hone New Year
So many Maori profess a love for Christianity and yet we copped the same shit as our Native American, and African American, and Aboriginal brothers and sisters.
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GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – My last Christmas in prison?
This is a day when prisoners line up to make phone calls to family and we think of those that can’t be with us. I think of my children – Tyrone , Kane & Siobhan especially .
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Dr Liz Gordon: What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger
It’s great to get to the end of 2019 with my enthusiasm for blogging undimmed. My obsessions this year have mainly focused of the Thoughts of Chairman Trump, the Kindness of Jacinda Ardern and the potential for carving out of a new post-neoliberal political platform. With, of course, a few dollops of life, love and intrigue thrown in. It has been a year, I suppose like most but more so, of hopes and fears. We are living in interesting times.