The Daily Blog Open Mic – Friday – 6th September 2019
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
Year: 2019
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The passing of Peter Ellis
Once upon a time, the value of justice was ‘better 10 guilty people walk free than one innocent person jailed’.
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RNZ embarrass themselves over free speech debate
I support free speech because when we limit it, the State always twists it to silence genuine dissidents. Painting that philosophical support as akin to right wing Nazi sympathisers is astonishingly dangerous and short sighted.
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Labour burn KiwiBuild to save the village, except there’s no village – but they do find what passes for their limp mojo
The madness of using the free market to solve a problem caused by an unregulated free market has finally been buried.
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Can National be trusted in China? Really?
by visiting China without chaperones, aren’t National a meth addict being left alone in a dealers house with a fresh glass pipe full of P sitting on the coffee table?
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Imagine the uproar if any other Political Party self censored the way the Greens just did
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.
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GUEST BLOG: Geoff Simmons – Cancer Obsession is More Middle-Class Welfare
Back in 2018 I argued that Labour’s cornerstone policies – Fees Free tertiary, KiwiBuild, and the Families Package – were really for the middle class rather than the poor. They follow a theme continued from Helen Clark’s time in power, where interest-free student loans, Working for Families, and KiwiSaver all achieved similar outcomes.
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New Zealand Government Should Advocate A Pathway For Peace For West Papua
It is clear and proper that New Zealand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade is closely monitoring a concerning situation of deteriorating violence in West Papua.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Let’s REALLY Reset
Yesterday’s announcement by the government to reset Kiwibuild to include lower desposits, rent-to-own and shared equity schemes has welcome echoes of the scheme that allowed my “working class” Mum and Dad to build a new home in Christchurch in the early 1960’s.
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Political Caption Competition
Total eclipse of the hand.