Coalition New Zealand response to Electoral Commission outcome
News from the Electoral Commission has provided the party with the clarity it was seeking around use of the word…
Year: 2019
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Support to legalise recreational cannabis in decline – Helius
The prospect of ending wider cannabis prohibition looks increasingly unlikely. Over the last nine months, the percentage of New Zealanders…
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Ardern must meet Pacific calls for “prompt, ambitious, successful” action on climate breakdown – Oxfam
New Zealand has been issued a stark challenge from Pacific leaders to dramatically upscale its action to address climate breakdown,…
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Political Caption Competition
And then Donald Trump said he received a lovely letter from you.
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Sunday 18th August 2019
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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New Look TDB – Contribution Drive
Well folks, this is the new look TDB. It’s taken us months to get to this stage, we haven’t had a re-vamp of the blog since we launched 6 years ago.
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Political Podcast – Sean Plunkett vs Damien Grant vs Bomber: This week – pacific forum, Tarrant letters, secret trials, the media landscape and Alan Jones PM comments
This week – pacific forum, Tarrant letters, secret trials, the media landscape and Alan Jones PM comments
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The quiet desperation of low-income families Vs middle-class angst
It’s a sad truth that in our daily political discourse the struggle of people on low incomes doesn’t rate much.
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The coming economic crisis, “unorthodox” monetary policy, and Donald Trump
A new surge in the price of gold in US dollars would force the Federal Reserve to reverse course and start hiking interest rates and reversing easing once more. Trump would then have the choice of firing the Federal Reserve and forcing his changes, as he hinted at doing in late 2018, or having an election-year recession. This would provoke a political and economic crisis of historic proportions.
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Political Caption Competition
I will do as you wish master. I will run Wellington for you, your museums and any future project requiring vast sums of public money. You are my precious.