What next? Can Ukraine recapture the initiative?
In recent weeks, we have seen the rapid withdrawal of Russian forces from West of the Dnipro River and there…
New Zealand Politics
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Why Marx was right when he said that wage rises do NOT cause inflation
The Reserve Bank is increasing the cash rate they charge banks by .75% to 4.25%. They say they must charge…
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The Reserve Bank’s Manufactured Recession: Political Winners, Losers and Predictions
Wow, the ‘I-told-you-so-express’ is on time again here at The Daily Blog when the recession we’ve argued is coming was…
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Political Roundup: Politicians and the Reserve Bank are being blamed for an escalating economic crisis
Will the looming economic recession kill off Labour’s re-election chances? Is the Reserve Bank making things worse? And could a…
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The Reserve Bank Governor Grinch who stole Christmas!
Brace for a recession: Reserve Bank hikes OCR by 75bp to 4.25 per cent The Reserve Bank has today lifted…
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MEDIAWATCH: When are we going to critique news media’s coverage of ram raids?
Ram Raid news stories make news producers orgasm. They are cheap, easy to produce and present as live breaking news…
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Lowering the voting age to 16? Shouldn’t we cap voting at 75?
New Zealand’s beautiful egalitarian history of universal suffrage was given a boost this week when the Supreme Court gloriously ruled…
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Political Roundup: 23 November 2022
Items of interest and importance today VOTING AGE Henry Cooke (Guardian): New Zealand’s supreme court has forced voting age on…
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Political Roundup: The High barriers to lowering the voting age
Sixteen-year-olds aren’t about to get the right to vote anytime soon. Despite yesterday’s Supreme Court declaration that a voting age…
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Chris ‘Old Testament’ Luxon goes ‘spare the whip, spoil the child’ and promotes revenge fantasies as social policy
National’s desperate need to steal voters any from ACT’s reactionary base has led Chris Luxon into a week of extraordinary…