GUEST BLOG: Ben Peterson – Corbyn, the threat is real
Ben Peterson is a Unite Union Organiser and is TDBs correspondent in Britain covering the fight and fallout of the British Labour Party Leadership contest.
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GUEST BLOG: Kieran Robert Kelly – The 2016 US Presidential Election Will Not Take Place
From the beginning, we knew that this election would never happen. An election of representatives for any office involves the…
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Millennials, Gen Xers and Baby Boomers
As older generations struggle to deal with the untarnished manner in which younger generations can use social media to tell them how much they hate them, larger fracture lines are starting to emerge between Baby Boomers, Gen Xers and Millennials.
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Megamansion development in Devonport vs 1 million NZers locked out of homeownership
There have been remarkable juxtapositions last week in NZ that seem to show the two worlds we have split into, one where the reality of life is grim and one where privilege blinds us to that grim reality.
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What stops Key’s Fourth Term?
National voters know the system they are profiting from is hurting their fellow citizens, they just don’t care. This is what 30 years of neoliberalism has produced. There’s a dark streak of anti-intellectualism in NZ, a negative egalitarianism, that embraces Keys nonchalant ignorance with the passion of a junkie to their dealer.
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You won’t believe what Talley’s are doing to their workers now
…Talley’s claims this over the top reaction was because they are so focused on safety which is hilarious when you consider they had no problem sending workers into fishing ships to get poisoned or their lax attitude towards decapitation.
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From Good Guys To Fall Guys: The Spinoff and Generation Zero fail to endorse Mike Lee
UP UNTIL TUESDAY of last week I’d always thought of The Spinoff and Generation Zero as the good guys. A wee bit hipsterish perhaps, in the case of the former; a little hard to distinguish from the Green Party in the latter – but these were minor quibbles. Overall, both organisations came across as fresh, creative, and definitely on the side of the progressive angels.
Not anymore.
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GUEST BLOG: Ben Peterson – Frontline at the fight for the heart and soul of the British Labour Party
Ben Peterson is a Unite Union Organiser and is TDBs correspondent in Britain covering the fight and fallout of the British Labour Party Leadership contest.
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Collusion, corruption, contradictions and cover ups in fishing industry, stink.
Those of us interested in the marine environment either as fishers or as conservationists, have known for a long time that in general, current commercial fishing practices stink.
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GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – Corrections should have listened to me in 2003
I’ve actually got some sympathy for Corrections, because it all started with a Court of Appeal decision refusing to accept from me the very argument the Supreme Court has now upheld was correct.