David Farrier

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Open mike 15/06/2025

1 week ago | thestandard.org.nz | Michael Reddell |Nick Rockel |Jennifer Leigh Parker |David Farrier
The West’s war on Iran

2 weeks ago | thestandard.org.nz | Michael Reddell |Nick Rockel |Jennifer Parker |David Farrier

I have visited Iran twice. Once in June 1980 to witness an unprecedented event: the world’s first Islamic Revolution. It was the very start of my writing career. The second time was in 2018 and part of my interest was to get a sense of how disenchanted the population was – or was not – with life under the Ayatollahs decades after the creation of the Islamic Republic. I loved my time in Iran and found ordinary Iranians to be such wonderful, cultured and kind people.
Daily review 09/06/2025

2 weeks ago | thestandard.org.nz | David Slack |David Farrier |Nzctuby Jack McDonald |Jack McDonald

Daily review 09/06/2025 Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:30 pm, June 9th, 2025 - No comments Categories: Daily review - Tags: Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other … Related Posts
Open mike 09/06/2025

2 weeks ago | thestandard.org.nz | Nick Rockel |Euan Graham |Justin Bassi |David Farrier
The Auckland Mayoralty

2 weeks ago | thestandard.org.nz | Nick Rockel |Euan Graham |Justin Bassi |David Farrier

The race to be Auckland’s mayor has become very interesting. This week deputy mayor Desley Simpson announced that she would not be running for the mayoralty and said that she would support current Mayor Wayne Brown instead. A clearer message that National will throw its weight behind Brown could not be imagined. Simpson’s National pedigree is clear. She is elected to represent the Orakei ward.
Trump vs Musk

3 weeks ago | thestandard.org.nz | David Farrier |Brian Easton |Bill Sweetman |David Slack

Never mind the two overly emotional, sociopathic, super egos having a cock fight on social media, here’s one of the wealth class talking about his infection with Democracy Addiction Syndrome and laying out argument after argument against Trump and Musk. Love the old school male values here too. Marketing professor and business man Scott Galloway cutting through the crap.
Privileges Committee recommendations are partisan, indefensible and racist

1 month ago | thestandard.org.nz | David Farrier |James Corera |John K. Coyne |Bernard Hickey

Tomorrow is D Day in Parliament. What will happen to the Privileges Committee recommendation in Parliament will be fascinating. I do not expect Te Pati Maori to take this lying down. And I am sure that the Green Party and at least to an extent Labour will be backing them up. And my respect for Speaker Brownlee has increased recently. He really does appear to be committed to giving MPs a fair go.
The Green Budget

1 month ago | thestandard.org.nz | Astrid Young |Nick Rockel |Stephanie Cullen |David Farrier

Last night I couldn’t find the Green Party video from yesterday’s Green Budget announcement, which might be a good thing because I ended up watching the BHN episode where Pat and Chewie talk with Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson (video below). I’ve been increasingly finding my eyes glazing over at much of the Greens’ speechifying. Their policies still look good, but somehow the rhetoric hasn’t been landing for me personally.
Louisa Wall - This Is Not Feminism - It’s Fiscal Evasion Dressed in Lipstick

1 month ago | thestandard.org.nz | Astrid Young |Nick Rockel |Stephanie Cullen |David Farrier

Reprinted with permissionIt’s not often I find myself needing to respond to a sitting Minister of Finance. But when Nicola Willis dismisses decades of feminist struggle for gender pay equity as “a grievance industry” and calls a journalist’s pointed social commentary “sexist slurs,” it becomes clear we’re not dealing with a reasoned policy debate. We’re witnessing a deliberate, ideologically motivated reframing of fairness as fiscal burden—and that’s something I cannot stay silent about.
Open mike 06/05/2025

1 month ago | thestandard.org.nz | David Farrier |Bill Sweetman |Karl Gading Sayudha |Bernard Hickey