Doubting Toby and Skeptical Vernon enter a bar…
Political Editor of the Spinoff, Doubting Toby, and the Political Reporter for Fairfax, Skeptical Vernon, both believe the latest Newshub polls are nothing for the left to celebrate…
Author: Martyn Bradbury
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Has the All Black cult of winning ruined the Olympics?
I am very surprised by the backlash on social media towards our athletes who win medals that aren’t gold. Winning silver or bronze isn’t ‘losing gold’, yet that’s the way the media present it, and it’s certainly what you will see on social media.
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Just when you couldn’t be more disgusted by Naru
Prepare to be made sicker.
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The Nation review: Auckland Mayoralty – yawn – give it to Goff already
The Nation ran a Auckland Mayoralty special and it was as dull as you can imagine.
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What you are not being told about the Australian Detention Camps
The obscenity of Australia’s detention camp in Naru is surfacing again. Refugee children driven to suicide because of sexual abuse meted out by guards is about as grim as it gets, but the true horror of what is happening in Australia has infected NZ as well.
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Take a moment to consider that we are actually wasting time in Parliament over luggage
The cynicism of this National Government is breathtaking at times.
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Rio Olympics an orgy of corruption and commercialism – why I don’t care
With Russia mass cheating, and the violence netted out to the local population who protested and the grotesque pollution it’s all causing – this Olympics seems more damaged than ever before.
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Why NZ desperately needs a Bernie Sanders political revolution to hack the State (no really)
We need to hack the State so that these welfare agencies are actually looking after the welfare of those needing their services and not pushing counter productive policies that actually end up hurting those people.
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Why would Stuart Nash spoil Labour’s moment in the Sun?
Why, oh why, would Stuart Nash ruin Labour’s moment in the Sun huh?
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Ministry of Social Development spy on beneficiaries using Facebook
This is the very kind of example we need to have a political revolution against, these so called public services have become vicious extensions of the State and do nothing but cause grief to those it is supposed to be concerned with.