Police take a year to disclose secret search of activists’ home
The use of this provision against political activists does sound alarm bells.
politics
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Lizzie Marvelly highlights why we need a Ministry of Youth Affairs and why we need to lower the voting age
In Lizzie Marvelly’s excellent column last week, she pointed out our terrible failings as a society when it comes to sex education. Her follow up column this weekend focuses on the intergenerational theft children in poverty face against an older electorate who simply vote for their interests.
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The 10 great neoliberal myths of NZ
30 years of neoliberalism in NZ has created important pillar myths that need to constantly be reinforced and worshiped unquestionably. We are not allowed to challenge these scared cows, we must not ever disagree with them and we must always accept them.
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BREAKING: Dow Jones meltdown by 392 points after China loses 3.6%
The continuing meltdown on stock markets around the world didn’t slow down. China lost 3.6%, European markets slid hard and the Dow Jones just closed down 392 points.
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Can Labour’s New General Secretary do what Corbyn has done?
Despite all the claims that Corbyn’s shift to the Left is utterly unelectable, a recent survey of the thousands and thousands of new grass root activists who have flocked to the Party suggests that his leadership has given UK Labour more energy and rebirthed branches that had been near dead…
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Most treasonous Vichy Herald editorial ever?
To be honest, I thought this spineless NZ Herald editorial was originally a Toby Manhire spoof. Only Manhire could manage to mimic the subservient tepid fecklessness of the Herald editorial so masterfully.
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Herald front page highlights why we need a 5th estate
The fourth estate has obligations to hold the powerful to account, lazy journalism that jumps on social media for news doesn’t do that.
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This is what cheerleading hate looks like
Hate cheerleading
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Can we avert economic Armageddon?
Big banks and mainstream economists are now predicting an economic disaster befalling the world economy over the next few years.
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Beer doesn’t kill people, people kill people
Screw the booze barons, their interests have been protected and advanced for too long.