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The Grassroots Launch of Heart of the Protest Book
From Canterbury garage to nationwide.
Just Give Them a Pepsi and Leave Them to Work It Out
“I went to your institutional learning facilities, so how can you say I'M crazy?”
The President and the Ceasefire
Some reflections on Donald Trump's recent comments and the somewhat ceasefire in the Middle East
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When Police Go Into Business With Netflix
Information damaging to police interests was consistently absent from what was initially made public, and consistently only emerged under pressure from persistent journalists. The OIA exists precisely to prevent this.
He Is Playing the Fool
The West, having returned the world to those from whom it was taken, is no longer strong enough to take it back.
A Just War on a Global Enemy
Trump has already won, but the Trump-deranged will never admit it.
Winston Peters: From King Maker to King?
The press gallery can keep peddling the relic story if it wants. The numbers and the political reality tell a very different tale.
Quick Hit – The Roads They Promised Are Already Being Scaled Back
The roads were never going to build themselves. Turns out, they’re not going to be built at all – at least, not the way they were promised.
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