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Among your go-to reporters, columnists, analysts etc. try these as well as reading the ones on this blog in the main sections and popping up in guest posts etc. There are still good ones out there in the world and the more you read around, the more you get to understand who is firing on all cylinders.
Dave Frum The David Frum Show
YouTube · The Atlantic
810K+ followers
To defend democracy, one has to believe in it. To believe in democracy, one has to understand it. Where it came from. How it works. What’s true. What’s not.
I haven’t heard much of him as yet but The Atlantic is usually good stuff.
Then there is – The Rest Is Politics
YouTube
https://www.youtube.com › videos
Two men who’ve been at the heart of the political world – former Downing Street Director of Communications and Strategy Alastair Campbell and cabinet minister …
(Alastair C was I thought a bad boy but he and Rory Stewart now dispassionately to some extent, functionally anyway, discuss things in a way that is thought through and likely to be spot-on.
Then there is Gwynne Dyer, Canadian living in UK and seems to have broad intellect, very wise. I like this one:
Dyer: Probability of U.S. collapse depressingly high
“Predictions are hard, especially about the future,” says a Danish proverb, but still we make them, especially when we care about the future.
1 day ago
This is followed by items on Ukraine, Brazil and Trump, Asia, refugees, Africa – so covers a lot of territory to keep all corners of one’s brain active – and his own obviously.
If this is true – we should be looking at this, questioning it! I thought that this about our ‘nation’s’ empty purse and dirty trousers should be uplifted, printed out on posters and put in public places. They used to do that in China, don’t know if it did any good. But they did something, I just go on giving the odd sausage or cup of coffee to men on the pavement in the street. Everybody needs at least a small amount of positivity a day eh!
NZ has a 104 billion $ infrastructure deficit. This government is increasing that deficit deliberately. Also private debt deflation from huge mortgages stifles private consumption. We don’t need to borrow more we can create our own credit!
( A structural deficit is when a government or entity’s expenses consistently exceed its revenues, regardless of the economic cycle’s performance.
This means that even if the economy were performing at its full potential with low unemployment, the government would still be spending more than it takes in, creating a persistent financial imbalance that requires fundamental changes to correct. )!!!!!!!!
The governments growth mantra is a joke it’s actually a shrink mantra in action.
The free market parasitisation is shrinking manufacturing in this country.
Power is too expensive!!! Depending on the free market is like getting used to permanent diarrhea! Australian R.B. 3 mandates: 1. maximise employment. 2. Grow the economy 3. minimise inflation
(See earlier post – https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2025/10/04/1-on-1-in-10-economist-craig-renney-breaks-down-nzs-economic-crisis/)
They’re [NZ Government/Treasury?] hostile to state workers because they want to PRIVATISE everything! Daylight Robbery of the public revenue! 23 billion $ in tax cuts.
Oh hell – further efficiencies decided by bureaucrats. What about my efficiencies wanted by me as a citizen? Where is my choice if I don’t want to become completely reliant on internet and cellphones,if I’m lucky.
This is a reduction continuing from governments who are a bloddy disgrace. That is a sort of tongue in cheek forecast, we have the disgrace now but I think it will become bloody later.
(Philosophical relevant complaint – Soren Kierkegaard – Where am I? Who am I? How did I come to be here? What is this thing called the world? How did I come into the world? Why was I not consulted? And If I am compelled to take part in it, where is the director? I want to see him. )
Business 11:12 am today Why you might soon have fewer mail delivery days
11:12 am today (Tues 7/10)
Susan Edmunds, Money Correspondent
susan.edmunds@rnz.co.nz
NZ Post
Changes have been signed off that allow NZ Post to reduce the number of days it offers a mail service.
The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment said on Tuesday the government had approved changes to the Postal Deed of Understanding between the Crown and NZ Post.
These are designed to allow NZ Post to operate the mail service in a commercially sustainable way.
It has come under pressure as mail volumes have declined in recent years.
In 2023, it was reported that NZ Post planned to cut 750 jobs over the next five years in response.
Listen to No Stupid Questions with Susan Edmunds
NZ Post can choose to operate at higher than minimum levels, but the new deed requires that mail is delivered two days a week to urban addresses, PO boxes and private bags and a minimum three days a week to rural addresses.
The previous minimum was three days for urban areas and five for rural and PO boxes.
The delivery days need to be spread throughout the week.
The deed also requires a minimum of 500 service points, reducing to a minimum 400 over four years. The previous deed required 880.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/575202/why-you-might-soon-have-fewer-mail-delivery-days
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