Winston Wronged And HDPA Right – The Unexploded Truth Of The Pension Payment Settling Of Accounts
So earlier this week, two things happened. Winston got his lawsuit result back … and the National Party started demanding that he pay for it.
Curwen Rolinson
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On The Escalating Media Demands For A Covid-19 ‘Wartime’ Coalition With National
I must confess myself in possession of a certain mounting disquiet at the escalating drum-beat echoing through our political commentariat of late.
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It’s Almost Like The Neoliberals Don’t WANT To Survive The Crisis – On Brazen Talk Of “Acceptable Losses” To Re-Grease Wheels Of Economy
There is a quotation often attributed to Lenin, in which it is said that when it comes time to hang the capitalists – they will fall over each other to attempt to sell their executioners the rope.
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Trump’s Covid-19 Programme: Crisis Response, Turning Tables, and Corona-tion
One of the curious concepts in a crisis is the way in which the ‘old rules’ don’t so much not apply, as seem actively turned upon their head.
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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.
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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.