Posts by Angus Robertson
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What I do think is a good move is that Labour are opening selection for their new candidate for Te Atatu as soon as possible. The sooner they can start to build the Labour brand there around someoneelse is going to have to help.
And it would be really helpful if Chris Carter could be secured a good well paying job (with unlimited travel budget) somewhere far far away from NZ. He might otherwise be tempted to run as an independent or perhaps as a Progressive.
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Labour ran an effective campaign grounded in the networks it had built up over years in the Mt Albert electorate.
...by Helen Clark in her tenure as a very well respected PM and local MP.
Even allowing for the hapless performance of National's candidate, it was a good look.
Melissa Lee was parachuted into that electorate over the loud objections of the local Nats.
Local strength wins by-elections.
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Rather, it's the low-intelligence, monosyllabic, strictly-unskilled workers who will likely never be in a position to bargain from strength, that need to be at the forefront of any designer of labour laws.
It is part and parcel of right-wing philosophy that people are not destined to be forever excluded from a position of bargaining strength.
Sadly, it appears that National had exactly these people in mind when designing this law: as the ones who should be afforded the absolute least protection possible.
The right suggests that any regulation affording protection to willfully "low-intelligence, monosyllabic, strictly-unskilled" workplace practice is counterproductive.
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Its middle of cold raining winter with a recession on and someone offers a chance of a paying job that involves flying business class to a tropical island?
What do you pack?
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More generally how valid is identifying yourself as a practicioner of a philosophy? As opposed to seeing how your actions affect others?
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I am the parent of a girl. I am a feminist in that I champion her rights to autonomy of person-hood, which involves challenging patriarchal beliefs . This requires my applying feminist ideology.
You can champion her rights to autonomy through an egalitarian or liberal philospohy, with the added benefit of being able to challenge privilege outside of the patriarchal infrastructure.
You can't be a feminist.
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imdb - remembering quotes, so we don't have to?
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Also, I imagine there are people quoting dialogue from the likes of Superbad, Knocked Up, The Hangover.
Tigers love pepper. They hate cinnamon.
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Even if you didn't notice the large historical revisionism elephant in the room, you should've seen that it was at least a thinly veiled piece of xenophobia.
And presumably because of this not published it - why ever not? Its an op-ed piece, it informs the reader of opinions.
Wellingtonians should be informed of the attitude of the LDP (and a representative swathe of Japanese) to foreigners, even though that view is xenophobic and revisionist and is offensive to you. The LDP ruled Japan for half a century and is likely to be the next government of Japan (because the Social Democrats are finding themselves unable to boot America off the isles fast enough to satisfy their support). The opinions of powerful Japanese politicians are important and worthy of space in an op-ed column.
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The Fortean Times had a great issue on Coulrophobia a while back.
Worth $800 per week, according to Sideswipe.