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1 week ago | 
thestandard.org.nz | Gatra Priyandita |David Slack |NZCTUBy Jeremiah Boniface |Jeremiah Boniface
Daily review 19/06/2025 Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:30 pm, June 19th, 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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1 week ago | 
subslack.substack.com | David Slack
Busy today, but want to add a little bit more about the Regulatory Standards Bill. I did not think I could think any less of the ACT party and their weird blend of sanctimony, ideological delusion and thuggery, but then they pull this shit. Eighteen months of Seymour puffing up his puny chicken shoulders will be eighteen more than I can stomach.
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1 week ago | 
subslack.substack.com | David Slack
There’s a post still coming about farming and our future that spans oceans and centuries, but I’m sending something else today because time is of the essence. So: first some memories, and then some words from Sir Geoffrey Palmer about Seymour’s goddam bill. Before I share with you something written by my old boss, let me begin by telling the story of how…
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2 weeks ago | 
thestandard.org.nz | Euan Graham |David Slack |Tilla Hoja |James Corera
Daily review 13/06/2025 Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:30 pm, June 13th, 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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2 weeks ago | 
subslack.substack.com | David Slack
1. What would you let David Seymour or the people he put on a board decide for you? a. Whether to order the chicken or the flounderb. Whether to watch Dept Q or Sirens on Netflixc. Whether to read Ayn Rand or smack my head with a frypand. Nothing, not one damn thing. Where does that prick get off thinking he can make the rules for us? 2. In this testimony…
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2 weeks ago | 
thestandard.org.nz | David Slack |Michael Reddell |Jihoon Yu |Nick Rockel
Daily review 11/06/2025 Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:30 pm, June 11th, 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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2 weeks ago | 
subslack.substack.com | David Slack
Surprises I will always greet with astonished delight:• None Several hundred lawyers suing the government for being absolutely useless about the climate crisisTwo groups representing over 300 environment lawyers are suing the New Zealand government over its "dangerously inadequate" emissions reduction plan. They say the coalitio…
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2 weeks ago | 
subslack.substack.com | David Slack
Into LA go Trump's forces, and into LA go his lies. Modern politics is a framing war. It’s a system that keeps rewarding the wrong people. It’s a system that keeps rewarding the lie that tells people what they want to hear. It’s a system that Donald Trump instinctively understands. Never mind that the right to speak, to object, is a fundamental tene…
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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
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2 weeks ago | 
subslack.substack.com | David Slack
On the occasion of the publication of another Rich List, let us bow our heads, brothers and sisters, and remind ourselves of the saying: The only thing money proves is that you have money. It may also be proof of luck, or timing, or inheritance, or connections; but confusing wealth with wisdom is one of humanity's most persistent errors.
