5: How Politics’ Biggest Self-Own Played Out On the UK’s Screens
4: US anti-fascists take on alt-right fight squads
3: After Election Setback, Theresa May Clings to Power in U.K. Thanks to Ulster Extremists
2: Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn Rides Progressive Tide in U.K. Election in Rebuke of Austerity & Conservatives
1: Corbyn team at Labour party HQ ‘stunned’ by exit polls on election night
National’s “grand plans” for 220 new social and transitional places remains woefully short of the 1,138 houses that National sold off to IHC’s Accessible Properties at the end of March. It is also unclear what is meant by ” transitional places”. Are these actual houses? Or motel units, à la Auckland-style;
The loss of Theresa May’s clear Conservative majority has already rocked conventional assumptions, agendas and elites. The realm of the politically possible has been blasted open – because the electoral support for Corbyn doesn’t just reflect a resurgence for British Labour, it has allowed a publicly popular discussion about a whole different political economy.
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The United Nations Committee Against Torture has asked the New Zealand Government to report on what measures it has put…
World Day Against Child Labour is a chance for Kiwis to think about how their everyday actions can help build…
Bill English can’t hide any longer.
In a country with a mental health system as horrifically underfunded as ours, euthanasia would simply become a tread mill by faceless Wellington bureaucrats for cost cutting purposes on the most vulnerable.
Julie Anne Genter had her medical cannabis reform members bill pulled out at the same time as David Seymour’s Euthanasia Bill. It would see an amendment to the Misuse of Drugs Act that would allow cannabis supply for medical users.
Trump’s mix of corrupt capitalism, brittle ego and aggressive neurotic defensiveness makes trying to derive motive from his behaviour extremely difficult, and I think while Comey’s testimony is completely true and factual, the crazy shit that floats through the President’s mind which he can use to defend his comments makes impeaching him successfully an extremely unlikely event.
