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 ...

Ministers Shane Jones and Chris Bishop continued to make decisions about several fast-track projects despite their respective parties receiving donations linked to the applicants. One political ...

New Zealand starting to feel the pointy end of the climate crisis By: weka - 10:26 am, July 14th, 2025 - 57 comments Categories: climate change, disaster - Tags: floods, just transition, Nelson, ...

Six months ago, the Trump administration paused almost all foreign assistance. As more than US$60 billion of programs suddenly stopped, we predicted that people would die, the world would become less ...

A few hours ago, it was shared with me 1 that Paul Goldsmith’s voting electoral reform affects ~560,000 voters 2 Here are the details 3: Election day registration: 110,000 Voting period registration: ...

Hey federated fatteners..!.. ..are you even aware that the recent cancer revelations about bacon/processed meats …is your American surgeon-general ciggy-cancer moment..? IMHO . (Explanation for ...

In principle you are correct but you are up against Labour's incremental culture. They lack a praxis of cut-through when the time is right. So much for the bright side of Labour. The dark side ...

The line that all the things NACTFirst embrace are "imported culture wars" is a cop-out. eg Labour & the GP imported the current transgenderist lines ( from US: self ID, pronoun enforcement, ...

In politics, regulatory capture is a form of corruption of authority that occurs when a political entity, policymaker, or regulator is co-opted to serve the commercial, ideological, or political ...

Gerrymander alert – Government running scared By: Mike Smith - 3:49 pm, July 25th, 2025 - 9 comments Categories: Abuse of power, campaigning, democracy under attack, democratic participation, Dirty ...