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3 days ago | 
thestandard.org.nz | Shashank Joshi |Victor Abramowicz |David Slack |Graeme Dobell
New Zealand has a deep connection with the sea, and this is reflected in the narratives and naval mythologies of the coalition parties. The waka of the National Party is a slick shiny speed machine that is built for speed and efficiency. It has a highly trained team of professional rowers that is supported by a rich club. Its strength lies in its strong leadership and the crew has an unwavering trust in the cox who has even shaved his head to keep it cool and for aerodynamic advantage.
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3 days ago | 
thestandard.org.nz | Shashank Joshi |Victor Abramowicz |David Slack |Graeme Dobell
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3 days ago | 
thestandard.org.nz | David Slack |Graeme Dobell |Bill Sweetman |Michael Reddell
Daily review 04/06/2025 Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:30 pm, June 4th, 2025 - 1 comment 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
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3 days ago | 
subslack.substack.com | David Slack
People may have seen David Seymour tossing away about his Treaty bullshit and thought to themselves: Well maybe he really cares about it, even if he couldn’t be more wrong. Others may have seen David Seymour tossing away about his Treaty bullshit and thought: Have you ever seen anything more cynical and duplicitous?? Now, thanks to the miracle of TV news …
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4 days ago | 
thestandard.org.nz | David Slack |Graeme Dobell |NZCTUBy Stella Whitfield |Stella Whitfield
Daily review 03/06/2025 Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:30 pm, June 3rd, 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
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4 days ago | 
subslack.substack.com | David Slack
In a moment, the conclusion to Sunday’s cliffhanger edition, about our terrible terrible debt problem and OTHER WORSE THINGS, but first, Chris Bishop. For years on Twitter he would make an absolute meal of his indignation that some cretin had failed to read their plane ticket right and was sitting in his seat!!!
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5 days ago | 
thestandard.org.nz | Bernard Hickey |Frank Macskasy |Nick Rockel |David Slack
I want to share a writer’s journey – of living and writing through the Genocide. Where I live and how I live could not be further from the horror playing out in Gaza and, increasingly, on the West Bank. Yet, because my country provides military, intelligence and diplomatic support to Israel and the US, I feel compelled to answer the call to support Palestine by doing the one thing I know best: writing. I am one of the blessed of the earth. I’m surrounded by similarly fortunate people.
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5 days ago | 
thestandard.org.nz | Bernard Hickey |Frank Macskasy |Nick Rockel |David Slack
This excerpt is from a discussion at the Festival of Debate in Sheffield, England, the largest annual politics festival in the UK (a non-partisan event “that encourages active citizenship and democratic engagement that anyone can contribute to”). The discussion breaks through our cognitive dissonance about climate collapse and the polycrisis (including in New Zealand), but also offers a way through.
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1 week ago | 
subslack.substack.com | David Slack
There’s a familiar sound to each year’s budget speech, like the song you’ll hear every visit to the supermarket. It goes like this:Well, it's a deficit this year. And next year too. But we expect to be back in surplus the following yearBy rights, when budget day rolls around the following year you might expect to be hearing:Yep, that surplus is now a yea…
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1 week ago | 
subslack.substack.com | David Slack
1. How many times has Winston Peters been Deputy Prime Minister? a. Onceb. Twicec. Threefoldd. Take your dirt and go somewhere else. You’re on this programme trying to get rid of New Zealand First because your masters told you to. I’ve got news for you Jack, and your masters and it is all bad. 2. Nicola Willis shared on Facebook a dream she often has. Wha…
