ANZAC Day – Lest we remember
The glorious war dead lie cold in the ground and must weep at our militarism and how their sacrifices have been twisted into continued justification for violence.
Martyn Bradbury
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Greens trash Labour’s chances in Northcote – with allies like this, who needs National?
The Greens running in the Northcote by-election is as counter productive as Clarke Gayford asking Deborah Hill Cone for a character reference.
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After character assassinating Clarke with an e – is the NZ Herald now just a blog with Trolls?
The Herald have had the audacity to pick up on their own columnists smear job on Clarke with an unnamed ‘story’ covering the outrage they created.
Clickbait using clickbait.
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Banning the benefit for a Tinder date?!? This is why we still can’t trust Labour, the Greens & NZ First
There is a belief amongst some on the Left that our comrades inside the Government are so over whelmed by the enormity of the job and are being so expertly manipulated by the Public Services that there will be only shallow promises an no real policy change.
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Even for Deborah Hill Cone, this is petty & spiteful
I’ve grown to like Deborah Hill Cone. The neurotic insightfulness of privilege after two bottles of white wine on a Wednesday in Devonport mixed with prescription drugs never sounded so self assured.
There are times she soars with enlightenment, cheers with genuine humour and preaches with conviction.
This hate column attacking Clarke Gayford however, sure as fuck isn’t one of them.
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Dear Students of Auckland University – here is how you get your libraries (and power) back
If students want to keep their libraries and reject the hollowness of neoliberal culture myths, they must fight to bring back Universal Student Membership.
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By suing Wikileaks. the DNC has shown how desperate they are to blame everyone but themselves
Opponents of Trump like to point to the Russian interference in the election to explain Trump winning, but I think blaming Russia for ‘hacking’ the US Election is deeply counter productive.
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It’s fair to compare Heather du Plessis-Allan to Ann Coulter
It’s fair to compare Jacinda to Trump in that they are part of the same species, breath oxygen and both have two legs and two arms.
The similarities end there.
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Poisoned spies, diplomatic mocking and hate speech: Tova O’Brien doesn’t like Jacinda much does she?
Tova is of course free to take the lines of inquiry she wants, she is the Political Editor of a main News Network, it is utterly her prerogative, but the results seem to be cheap headline gotcha’s rather than meaningful comment.
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The three things we learnt this week
Good week for the Left, good week for NZ.