GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – Tell Simon he’s dreaming!
Simon thinks starting a new Green Party that doesn’t have a social conscience is the next big thing to save National from having no mates at the 2020 election.
Guest Blogs & Sponsored Posts
Guest and sponsored opinion pieces published on The Daily Blog, offering diverse perspectives within clear editorial guidelines.
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GUEST BLOG: Hone Harawira – The lesson for indigenous peoples from MAGA hat incident
One lesson to be learned from this incident…
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GUEST BLOG: Gerard Otto – Media silence about police investigation for 103 days
On 17th October 2018 former National MP Jami-Lee Ross emerged from the Victoria Street police station in Wellington after filing a complaint on leader Simon Bridges.
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GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – Auckland Mayoralty 2019
If I’m in Auckland, I will have the chance to vote for him.
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GUEST BLOG: Ross Meurant – VENEZUELA: To be or not to be?
I don’t claim to be an expert on Latin America (I do claim to have substance when it comes to parts of the Middle East and Russia), but the following data is pretty reliable and presented for your cogitation as you ponder more impending WORLD chaos.
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GUEST BLOG: Nick Dearden – Big Tech should be taxed and regulated – but the Davos elite wants to give Amazon and Facebook even more power
This morning a group of mostly rich countries used the World Economic Forum in Davos to call for negotiations on digital trade. This is ‘next big thing’ in trade talks: trying to create global rules to govern rapidly increasing online trade and accompanying flows of data (the so-called ‘oil’ of the new economy).
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GUEST BLOG: Gerard Otto – Stacey Kirk and the disinterested pursuit of the truth
Journalists should be interested in their pursuit of the truth here – not sweep this stuff aside.
National had successfully told the press to bugger off and talk about something else – like Karel Sroubek for five weeks.
Now Ross was guilty of bringing up the matters they thought they had artfully dodged.
None of this context was covered in Stacey’s article today.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – The Delusion of Davos
The idea that when world leaders meet in the Swiss mountain resort of Davos to discuss economic issues that the assembled politicians are somehow in charge of the global economy is a delusion.
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GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – Thank you everyone for the support
In 2007, High Court Judge Sir Ron Young sentenced me to 4 years . Today, as Chair of the Parole Board Panel , he released me, saying “You have done what you can in prison. To keep you in custody would be without purpose. It would be vindictive,”
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GUEST BLOG: Gerard Otto – Judith Collins speaks weasel words
“The government has only delivered 33 houses in the time the private sector has delivered 35,200 houses” – said Judith…