MEDIAWATCH: Is this secretly a NZ on Air funded project for The Spin-off?
Is this secretly a NZ on Air funded project for The Spin-off and if it isn’t – could anyone actually tell?
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GUEST BLOG: Pat O’Dea – The war is not over
The West fought a war against the Taliban, we lost.
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Dr Liz Gordon: Replacement theory, wokism, Karens and the politics of the zero sum game
Whether we are considering positionality or economy, zero-sum calculations are incorrect and damaging. Expansiveness expands, as it were. There is nothing to fear.
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Not Understood: Chris Trotter Replies To Susan St John
I HAVE BEEN an admirer of Susan St John and her work for the best part of 30 years. So much so that in 1992 I put her picture on the cover of my magazine, New Zealand Political Review. In a country where the number of progressive public intellectuals is shrinking alarmingly, Susan stands out as a forthright champion of social justice for New Zealand’s most vulnerable citizens.
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Waatea News Column: Responding to David Seymour
David Seymour has kindly responded via the NZ Herald to criticisms that he vandalized a Māori public health campaign and I felt that if he was going to take time to explain himself, it would be wrong not to rebut him line by line.
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Political Caption Competition
If Cameron Slater ran stuff.co.nz
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Tuesday – 14th September 2021
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Auckland’s long Delta tail, why combating poverty is the true vaccination & our returned world will be less free
What is exacerbating this fight against Covid is the extreme poverty so prevalent in South Auckland, that poverty is helping spread the virus.
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Is Judith going full Trump?
From the brutal assassination of Iain Lees-Galloway on live TV, to her conspiracy theories in the early days of the pandemic, from her cleansing of her Caucus to her fights with journalists- it’s all been a cavalcade of needless spite and malice.
Her latest attack however on public health advocate Dr Wiles using creepy stalker footage from a hate merchant like Cameron Slater is beyond anything she’s attempted to date.
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The real difference between the ISIS terrorist & White Supremacist terrorist
How dare I compare 2 terrorists with each other! How horrible etc etc etc. Look, this is TDB, home of the Dirt Bag Left and everyone is an adult so if such a comparison triggers you, fuck off to the Spin-off or Stuff.co.NZ, or RNZ or any other number of woke middle class media.
That said, I promise if you like what I wrote above, you won’t like what I have to say in comparing these two terrorists.