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Daily News Roundup – 30 October 2020

Daily News Roundup – 30 October 2020

New Labour Government Thomas Manch (Stuff): A Cabinet to fill: Who will take the top jobs in the new Labour Government? Matthew Hooton (Herald): Jacinda Ardern’s line on the Greens – and the Cabinet Minister she must remove (paywalled) Maori TV: Maori-Labour caucus will get top cabinet jobs – political

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National’s Review Heading for a Whitewash?

National’s Review Heading for a Whitewash?

The National Party’s board of directors have launched a review of the party’s dismal 2020 election campaign. This review could well become a whitewash if rumours floating around about how it is being conducted are true. National’s much-depleted caucus of MPs are having to travel to

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Close Enough, eh James?

Close Enough, eh James?

There is a new post up at WUWT that is a fairly technical analysis of error propagation uncertainly in the latest CMIP6 official climate model scenarios. Here are the conclusions that Pat Frank ends the post with: Not one of those projected temperatures is different from physically meaningless. Not one

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Weaselitis and Other Conditions

Weaselitis and Other Conditions

Information Satire I, your intrepid eyewitness, have been out of circulation since the election, locked inside, ruminating on the question of life, the universe and everything. I already knew that the answer to this particular question is 42, but it didn’t seem to help. Of course the human being

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Pssst, Wanna FREE Taste of Insight Politics?

Pssst, Wanna FREE Taste of Insight Politics?

If you don’t have a Silver level subscription yet you are missing out on our Insight Politics articles. Today is a FREE taste of an Insight Politics article by Lushington D. Brady that was first published  October 20th 2020. Election 2020: The View from Oz Elections Past From Across

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Korero from the Throne

Korero from the Throne

Information Satire Morena, ka pai; Aotearoa, this is your Kuini, and this is important korero, so please take notice. Last week our island nation was compared unfavourably with another island nation in our response to the great taniwha COVID-19. This is unacceptable, I am beyond reach of criticism due

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Daily News Roundup – 29 October 2020

Daily News Roundup – 29 October 2020

National Party Claire Trevett (Herald): The case for Judith Collins to make Deputy Shane Reti and put Simon Bridges in finance (paywalled) John Bishop (Stuff): National needs new values to rebuild Henry Cooke (Stuff): Gerry Brownlee’s deputy leadership in trouble ahead of confidence vote Zane Small (Newshub): National MPs

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A FREE Taste of an Insight Politics Article

A FREE Taste of an Insight Politics Article

Today Non- Subscribers get a FREE taste of what they are missing out on. Have a read of this Insight Politics article then decide whether or not you would like to subscribe to a Silver subscription or upgrade your existing Basic or Bronze level Subscription to Silver. National Party – the

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It Seems That Jacinda Ardern Does Actually Lie

It Seems That Jacinda Ardern Does Actually Lie

Jacinda Ardern famously claimed she’d never told a lie (there’s a lie right there) and also believes that it is possible to be in politics and never lie. When the border leaks hit in August we were told by the Prime Minister and the Health Minister that they

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A Message to Elizabeth Kerekere

A Message to Elizabeth Kerekere

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com New Green MP Elizabeth Kerekere told the media, “It was fantastic that New Zealand has the queerest Parliament in the world”. Why this is fantastic she did not say, instead adding there’s still a long way to go. “Parliament is still lacking representation, as

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A FREE Taste of an Insight Politics Article

A FREE Taste of an Insight Politics Article

Today Non- Subscribers get a FREE taste of what they are missing out on. Have a read of this Insight Politics article then decide whether or not you would like to subscribe to a Silver subscription or upgrade your existing Basic or Bronze level Subscription to Silver. National Party – the

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Being Fed a Big Fat Lie

Being Fed a Big Fat Lie

It’s so easy being Labour: just take gobs-ful of lies and then regurgitate same down the needy throats of voracious, unquestioning, and juvenile media-nesters who swallow them without hesitation. Thus it was with Andrew Little condescendingly trivialising the sexual groping of a female prison officer in ‘alerting’

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Leaked Minutes – Opposition to Be Designated Terrorist Organisations

Leaked Minutes – Opposition to Be Designated Terrorist Organisations

Information Satire In a shocking development, a briefcase containing an old copy of Playboy and a mince pie was ‘discarded’ metres from the offices of The Woke Examiner. Our assistant cub reporter, the finder of the briefcase, was scoffing the pie and thumbing eagerly through the vintage Playboy when he

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