Mickey and Ad could both contribute well informed content as contributing editors on their expert subjects. Robert Guyton is an achiever with a deep love of the environmnet and hands on experience of governance. Not sure about Ianmac, but I imagine he ...
Personally I don't mind uptick as long as it doesn't include down vote, which is a form of groupthink bullying IMHO.
The other thing I would say is the Standard spends far to much of it's time hijacked by a moderator who is a single issue fanatic. The fact is Weka's obsession with trans issues, her ridiculous womens rights party, and that she comes across as a remarkably...
I have a more important job now which limits my time to respond, and in addition, my employers firewall detects commenting on sites like this as spam and blocks them, that counts out the comments I usaed to make during my lunch hour.
We just have accept the fact 40% of Americans are objectively disconnected from reality. Exceptionalism, a hyper-partisan and insular media, relentless targeting by brain rotting social media algorithms, deep seated racism, crushing terms and conditions of...
Behold the great British centrist male, finally scaling the logical summit of sleazy British establishmentarism. https://www.thepoke.com/2024/04/18/this-professor-had-the-very-best-response-to-being-named-in-this-jaw-dropping-spectator-column-about-the-...
There are two other aspects of this that deeply disturb me. One is the obvious openness of the process to corrupt practices - something that our lax donations laws almost guarantee will occur - especially with Shane Jones and NZ First, a couple of names ...
That bloviating ass thinks being a pompous blowhard makes for a superior argument by virtue of self-pleasuring yourself with worthless excessive verbiage.
If the Russian tactics against Ukraine are any guide these missile attacks are designed to be a staggered launch to all arrive at once and overwhelm the defenses. Suicide drones, cruise missiles and MRBMs (Medium Range Ballistic Missiles) are will be ...
One of those sit back in your chair and go "Dang! I wish I'd thought of that!" metaphor moments followed by a secret resolution to steal it and use it on every occassion as if it was yours.
More worried our English academic friend will be carried off unnoticed in the wind and rain and mugged by a pair of rambunctious Keas....
Farrar is a fucktard who piously offers up his liberal credentials on the targets of right wing culture war hate while vigorously pumping out the bullets to be fired via his various grifting cronies and comments sections. He can take his so-called ...
What is the Kepler going to be like today and tomorrow? Asking for a friend....
A quick look at Alan Duncan's wikipedia page shows he has long been targetted by the Israel lobby for daring to have an opinion contrary to the hard line Likud party.
It would be one of histories cruel jokes if the "Conservative and Unionist Party" - to give the Tory party it's full name - was responsible for the end of the union with Scotland and the final reunification of Ireland! And it might not end there, who knows...
Remind me not to show the place we are looking at in Piha....
That just makes your post look even worse.
FPP will not be replaced under Starmer, all the increasingly ridiculous and anachronistic political trappings of British power like the bloated monarchy will be retained. Even reform of the House of Lords is certainly a bridge to far for Starmer, because ...
This comment is nonsense, have you even studied UK politics since the GFC? The Tories have retained power not by an appeal to the centre but with divide and rule via series of culture war distractions. Brexit, immigration, transphobia, Islamaphobia, cancel...
Starmer is almost guaranteed to be the next UK PM. Unfortunately, he is a chinless wonder who entirely inhabits the narrow fantasyland of Westminster lobby politics. The most likely character of a Starmer government will be an ineffectual, tinkering Tory ...
Two observations on the Auckland university Maori/Pasifiki space confected "controversy". First, the way ACT consistently targets Polynesians - you never see a picture of the Chinese student society sign in Chinese with ACT being outraged it isn't in ...
If you still think NZ is an equal society where we all judged by the same criteria in the public square, let me disabuse you of that right now: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/exclusive-interviews-family-of-kiwi-brothers-in-thai-prison-i-want-my-son-to-have-...
Let me guess, you were captain of the debating team at high school? You asked for some arbitrary evidence (this is a blog site, not a depositions hearing since when does everything have to come with an army of footnotes?) then when they were provided you ...
TLDR. Can you do all that as a tiktok?
Nice one centurion, like it, like it. Oh and hail Caesar.
No I was referring to the common and humorous meme of mafia gangsters. Weka made the heroic leap to retaliatory arson against her favourite pastor all by herself. The point is the old Bish and his flock are playing a dangerous game, it isn't like gay ...
Absolutely, they feel they've been green lighted by government ministers to put their assorted resentments into actions. Some dude wearing a baseball cap and a mask and driving a big SUV apparently smashed up a whole lot of electric charging points in ...
Also (given the report on the dysfunction in civil defense during Gabrielle in Hawkes Bay) does anyone really think NZ's authorities would react with the spped and cool efficiency of the Baltimore Port Authority and police in the bridge strike there? It ...
That's a lovely church you've got out there in Wiri Brian, it would be a pity if something bad happened to it.
If Tova spent half her time wondering why our entire child care sector is a massive exercise in the transfer of public funds to people like Chloe and Wayne Wright (who then fund far right culture war media outlets to ensure their nice little earner is ...
The amazing thing about all the MSM pieces about civil service redundancies is their received wisdom that the civil service was the "right size" at the end of a decade of neglect under Key/English. This is simply assumed as a fact by our MSM, who then ...
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