What the 2018 National Party Conference tells us
It’s been an interesting conference and I think some of the surface headlines suggest deeper moves we aren’t picking up on.
Year: 2018
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Let’s be brutally honest about Charter Schools and Māori shall we?
Charter Schools always seemed to be a solution searching for a problem.
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The single one thing that would forever change 7pm current affairs
If we made 7pm a time slot of current affairs, we could get a broad spectrum of that across the channels.
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How the Woke Left lost the free speech debate and gave Southern and Molyneux a marketing victory
The Woke Left would protest the Vagina Monologues for not being sensitive enough to women without vaginas. It’s like a Spinoff TV dinner party where Simon Wilson has just finished a 5 hour powerpoint presentation on the importance of cycle lanes while you’re stuck between Lizzie Marvelly and Toby Manhire arguing over who hates men most and who can firebomb the Pop-Up Globe fastest. You can’t get to a democratic majority of 51% if people suspect you want to legislate infant girls being gifted anything pink as a hate crime.
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A Week of Tim
A Week of Tim
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The Neoliberal State Defended By, Of All People, The Left
Herein lies the irony of the ongoing “free speech” controversy. As vociferous opponents of what they characterise as existential threats to traditional Anglo-Saxon culture, Lauren Southern’s and Stefan Molyneux’s looming visit to New Zealand is intended to persuade ordinary Kiwis to look to their own defence against the twin scourges of multiculturalism and identity politics.
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GUEST BLOG: Dave Brownz – The Helsinki Deal and the American Empire
There is a lot of confusion about Trump’s behavior in Helsinki. Is he crazy, a traitor, or dupe of Putin? Nah. It’s not that hard. It’s still about the Great Game for Eurasia. Trump is picking a fight with China which is the main economic threat to US imperialism. China has said it will ignore the sanctions on Iran. Trump wants to test the loyalty of Putin to Xi in the hope of weakening the China/Russia bloc. He wants a new deal.
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GUEST BLOG: Mike Lee – Goff’s ‘Toilet Tax’ – Auckland’s ‘winter of discontent’ set to continue
Just one week after the imposition of the council’s regressive fuel tax and a bunch of new targeted rates, came the disclosure in the NZ Herald that mayor Phil Goff has been planning ways to impose a so-called ‘Toilet Tax’ on the ratepayers of Auckland.
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Whānau Ora Diploma Graduation 2018 livestream 10.30am Friday
The Daily Blog will be live streaming the Whānau Ora Diploma Graduation 2018 this year Friday 3rd, from 10.30am.
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Political Caption Competition
A star is born