Bridges’ Response To Government Corona Package Case Of Ideological Shiver Looking For Spine To Run Up
I must say, I’m a little surprised at Simon Bridges’ response to the Government’s Covid-19 package.
Author: Curwen Rolinson
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“Are you OK, Boomer?” Countering The Chronophobic Malaise That’s Grown Up Around Covid-19
I’ve been pretty disquieted about some of the rhetoric that’s been going around the place along with Covid-19. Yes, we know that the health impacts are disproportionately severe for people over sixty. Yes, we know that in many Anglosphere countries, there is an occasionally pretty understandable annoyance on the part of younger people against the regrettably not-always-that-imaginary stereotype of Der Boomer.
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On Trump’s Nixonian “Peace With Honour” In Afghanistan
So over the past few days in Afghanistan, there’ve been more than six dozen Taliban attacks and the US has resumed airstrikes against them. Yet I seem to keep running across people hailing Trump as some kind of visionary diplomatic savant (as opposed to the *other* kind of savant) who’s scored some kind of history-diverting coup in securing a sort of ‘peace with honour’ deal in Afghanistan.
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So When Shane Jones Claims Wealthy Donors Are Influencing Immigration Decisions …
It seems like Jones’ outrage about supposedly suspect immigration is seriously selective. If it’s “Indian”, he’s against it. If it’s “Chinese”, he seems rather more circumspect (as in “silent”);
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Everybody We Don’t Like Is Literally A Russian Hacker – On The Latest Anti Sanders Smea
So yesterday, I saw headlines shrilly proclaiming that Bernie Sanders had just been briefed by the authorities that Russia was reportedly attempting to “help” his Presidential campaign.
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Paula Bennett’s attack on NZ First
So hold the phone … Paula Bennett is accusing the Prime Minister of refusing to face up to the issue around photos of a former NZF functionary meeting with a journalist turning up on Not-WhaleOil, claiming also that Winston’s statements in relation to this make him unfit to continue serving as Deputy PM.
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Chaos in the Caucuses – Iowa Democrats’ Corn App A Real Bad Dud
There is a quotation ascribed to Stalin – “I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this — who will count the votes, and how.”
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On Taking Responsibility For Downing A Passenger Jet
Despite what some are suggesting, there is little direct equivalency between the inadvertent Iranian shoot-down of Ukrainian International Airlines Flight 752 earlier this week, and the American shoot-down of Iranian Air Flight 655 in 1983.
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On The Tantalizing Possibility Of “The People’s Prince”
So over the past few weeks, the Royal Family has ‘lost’ two princes. I mean, they’re still there, nobody’s been exiled nor beheaded (potential migration to Canada notwithstanding), but nevertheless two Princes (and one Duchess) have taken a step back from being “Senior Royals”.
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A Few Thoughts On Iran Perception As The Stars Begin To Fall
As the missiles began to fall yesterday afternoon NZ time, I was struck by a few observances. Both of how much some things had changed – and, within those, how much yet disappointingly remained the same.