Labour and Capital Gains Tax – Is it a surrender if you fail to fight?
None of Labour’s arguments to explain their failure to deliver a Capital Gains Tax stack up.
Year: 2019
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Political Caption Competition
Boomers First
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Friday 26th April 2019
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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TDB Top 5 International Stories: Friday 26th April 2019
5: Sarah Sanders finally held a press conference. Just kidding: It was a thing for kids.
4: Sri Lanka revises bombings death toll down by 100
3: JOE BIDEN LAUNCHES PRESIDENTIAL BID WITH FUNDRAISER FILLED WITH CORPORATE LOBBYISTS AND GOP DONORS
2: Navy SEALs Tried for Months to Report Superior for War Crimes and Were Told to “Let It Go”
1: Cyclone Kenneth: Mozambique hit by its strongest storm ever -
‘Leave it up to Parliament,’ says USP academic in wake of Honiara riots
A Solomon Islands academic says the only body that can find a legitimate solution to his country’s current crisis is the National Parliament, reports Rosalie Nongebatu in the wake of this week’s riots in Honiara.
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ANZAC Day 2019 – searching for the meaningless in horror
For a juvenile culture and immature country like NZ, attempting to comprehend the magnitude of our slaughter; the contemptible way Māori were treated on returning from war; the lack of support services for those mentally scarred; the sacrifice of pacifists and the pointless murder of our own brutal invasions is more akin to unblinking sheep nervously stepping into the Lourve Museum to study contemporary Art.
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GUEST BLOG: Ross Meurant – Terrorism is best fought Internationally
I may well be time for our policy makers involved in strategic planning for the best security possible for New Zealand, to consider sending some of our people to complete courses in Russia – rather than send then to FBI courses and end up with raids on Dot Com being perpetrated on behalf of a foreign power.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – The complete take down of NZ Labour & No Matthew I have not been ‘sleeping’ or ‘deliberately misleading’
Yesterday Matthew Craig challenged on Facebook a sentence in my last blog in which I stated the current Labour led coalition ‘has no intention whatsoever of doing anything significant to reduce the gap between haves and the have nots’ . He then offered “ an incomplete list of just some of the things this Labour led coalition has achieved/is working on, in order to ‘reduce the gaps’, and help make this country a better and fairer place to live in”
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GUEST BLOG: Gerard Otto – Holding the government to account
Someone on 5% Preferred Prime Minister has a credibility issue.
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Italian Dispatches No. 1 – Grandeur and Decay
RUBBISH AND CHURCHES. Grandeur and decay. Italy is an old place – and it shows. Rome, a world city, is full of skips and wheelie-bins overflowing with uncollected trash. Romans pass by these eyesores without so much as a second glance. It’s not desirable, they seem to say, but it’s the best we can do. Refuse collection, like so much else in Italy, is a racket. Somebody is making a lot of money out of Rome’s rubbish – but far too few people are being paid to collect it. And so, as is customary in the Eternal City, things pile up.