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?
New Zealand Politics
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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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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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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.
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Is an appeal to self-interest the only solution?
How should I respond to Chris Trotter’s cynical summary of why it is pointless to rail against Labour’s lack of gumption in addressing the distressing wealth and income divisions that result in damaging and entrenched poverty?
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Media muddle muffles Canterbury DHB’s deficit importance
On 30 August the Press (part of the Stuff stable) published an article under the eye-catching headline ‘Cash-strapped health board’s operational deficit ballooning despite ambitious savings plan’: . The headline made the article a must-read. It certainly read well but there was one ever so slight problem with it; it was factually wrong.
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The Re-Start Of History: 9/11 20 Years On
Something that comes up on the anniversary of 9/11 is that question: “where were you when…”.