Happy New Year 2019
Here’s to another circle around the Sun.
Author: Martyn Bradbury
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Chris Bishop – The Patron Saint of Niche Policy
Of all the things that need our immediate attention in this country – bring your own piss to horse gambling day seems pretty bloody low on the list right?
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The dumbest people of 2018
Social Media in 2018 ended up sounding like a cacophony of socially awkward competitively woke Millennials all calling each other out for not being subjectively outraged enough by each others hobby horse issues, but beyond them, there were some really dumb people.
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Dear Auckland Transport Bus Driver driving the 27H route at 1.45pm on Christmas Day – you are an arsehole!
I don’t want you to be sacked, I don’t want any punishment handed out, I just want you to reflect on how you made a cold mum and her daughter feel on Christmas and promise never to act like that again in the future.
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How the Cannabis debate could be lost in NZ
The pressure going on is to create a NZ market that benefits the pharmaceutical industry, not the recreational cannabis industry. Finished products that are medical is the aim of that industry, not a loose bud or lose leaf market. Those pharmaceutical interests do not want what America has, they want a tightly regulated medicinal market that benefits them and them alone.
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Bad Damien Grant! Bad!
Damien’s view that the Greens are somehow ‘Lenin reborn’ is simply evidence of just how successful the 30 year neoliberal social, political and economic experiment in NZ has been. It is one of the most grotesque failures of intellectual debate that this 30 year experiment has never been seriously challenged by the Left in NZ and that the most ‘left wing’ political Party in NZ is only slightly less right wing than the Conservatives in Britain.
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Waatea News Column: State Spying on Māori, environmentalists and activists requires immediate response
How many times are we told by the State that they need these intrusive new powers of spying to protect us from foreign terrorists and domestic organised crime when in fact they are used against who they’ve always been used against, Māori, environmentalists and social justice activists.
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So, when will the mainstream media start, you know, doing their job?
Any day now the mainstream media will start holding the state to account for all that illegal spying with the same gusto they’ve chased Clare Curran’s coffee dates, extra pacific island travel for Baby Neve & a Czech MDMA smuggler.
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The anger of David Moffett shouldn’t be written off or ignored – it needs to be challenged
…the violence of Moffett’s language should send a tingle of fear down everyones collective spine. NZ Politics shies away from such language in case they unlock the dark beast of the NZ psyche. That Moffett is willing to publicly make such angry comments suggests a New Conservative Party that could be a far more dangerous beast than the goofy Colin Craig.
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National too distracted to manipulate latest Lord of the Rings drama
You’ll know who is likely to challenge Simon for the leadership based on who picks this up as an issue to attack Labour with.