Hi,Let me gripe about my day, and maybe you can gripe about yours, too.The washing machine and dryer in our apartment building are coin operated. That means in order to do a load of washing, you load ...

Halfway up a historic tower in York, we are neither up nor down. At the top you will have views of a city steeped in antiquity, made and remade by Romans, Normans, Vikings, Tescos. Below, you will ...

Written By: weka - Date published: 12:10 pm, June 10th, 2025 - 49 comments If the Madleen activism was largely symbolic, did it work?

The two greatest powers at work in the world right now are the roles of global finance, and climate change. In New Zealand we don’t yet see how these intersecting worlds of finance and climate change ...

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It has been reported that NZ First will oppose the Green’s attempt to make the country’s car fleet more sustainable and that it may hold up proposed gun law changes designed to address the problems ...

Ramaphosa has no doubt learnt from his predecessor Thabo Mbeki’s abysmal response to the HIV crisis in South Africa where inaction by the government caused the virus to spread quickly. Sadly it’s ...

In the midterm US elections a number of candidates supported by the NRA have lost out to opponents with strong anti gun views. And the youth vote surged. Were these events related? Log in Donate ...

Adrian Orr Pushed Out By Neil Quigley – Then The Cover Up Started With Nicola Willis Written By: Mountain Tui - Date published: 9:21 am, August 30th, 2025 - 24 comments Quigley, the RBNZ Board, and ...

Herald lifestyle columnist has published two recent opinion pieces, the first wondering if Jacinda Ardern will be able to address the many and varied problems the country faces and the second ...

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 ...

Colin Espiner’s back with his first blog of the year. It’s so much fun having him back. In his first outing, he comes up with four suggestions for government action in the year ahead. Since the ...