The Liberal Agenda – TONIGHT: Comedy Club: Fundraiser for Alex Pirie
Confirmed comedians so far are Brendhan Lovegrove, Justine Smith, Mel Bracewell, Eli Matthewson of TV fame. Also debuting Hadley Grace Robinson Lewis.
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Political Caption Competition
I’d say Theresa has this much chance of surviving politically.
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Wednesday 23rd January 2019
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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It’s going to take more than Jacinda’s kindness to combat inequality in NZ
While Jacinda is in Britain trying to suggest a free trade deal with NZ will somehow make the cluster fuck of Brexit somehow easier for Theresa May, the latest inequality numbers are out and they show a society horribly distorted by wealth…
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Bridges bashes beneficiaries & reminds us how difficult change will be
The truth is that welfare needs to be dramatically increased, sanctions dumped and moves towards a universal basic income adopted. That is a truth Simon and the National Party will die in a ditch to prevent because they know that if the poor actually benefited positively from welfare, they would start voting rather than recoiling from the process in the way they do now.
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SIS saw Keith Locke as a threat since he was a child – who is the real threat here?
Since when could a man of peace like Keith Locke be considered a threat and continue to be classified as a threat because he speaks out against the unchecked power of the Secret Intelligence Service?
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Is the NZ media coverage of British tourists embarrassing yet?
Beyond the petty joy of the daily schadenfreude of breathless media updates on rudeness, littering, minor theft and children brandishing verbal threats of handing out the bash, there is a deep seated resentment towards tourists by the locals that kept this story alive well beyond it’s initial 15 minutes of Nek Minit infamy.
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The Liberal Agenda – Te Papa Gallipoli: The Scale Of Our War
It’s an important exhibit to attend because it shows us how far we have yet to go in being honest about our history and being able to distill truth and wisdom from that honesty.
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MEDIA WATCH: Gillette – the best a progressive can get?
I was personally pretty cynical towards the Gillette advert and wrote it off as corporate woke wash, but watching in disbelief at Roastbusters wanting to launch a music career this week forces me to put that cynicism aside and acknowledge the deep need for the message Gillette is pushing.
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Hooton hears a what? National and their Karel Sroubek text hypocrisy
…the hypocrisy of National demanding transparency over innocuous text messages when they did everything in their power to hide their text messages when in power would be funny if the media weren’t feeding this double standard.