Posts by Ian Dalziel
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Hard News: Public Address Word of the…, in reply to Trevor Nicholls,
Rob is clearly trying to get an unfair advantage for this year’s competition.
aaah it's 2016 not 2017 - WOTY usually comes round early to mid December dunnit - Damn! Will Russell accept our premature extrapolations or have we spilled our seed on barren ground ?
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Haven't got a legalism to stand on...
Here is a particularly spittle-flecked diatribe!
It's as if some bony little psychic finger has been jabbing at my chest.It's hopeless for Ghahraman and fellow lawyers to argue that "human rights lawyers" might defend as well as prosecute the bad guys. This is not what the average voter would have understood.
And people who preach openness shouldn't revert to legalisms to get out of a political hole.We obviously need to get a better educated 'Average Voter' then.
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Legal Beagle: Questions, but no answers,…, in reply to Tom Semmens,
it was Soper who was first out of the blocks in mainstreaming a Farrar smear and I don’t think it is a coincidence the first target is a young, successful woman.
His sneering tone and belittling line of questioning to Jacinda Ardern when she was made PM got him effectively name checked by Linda Clark on NatRad.Which is weird when ya think that Soper is 64 and his partner Heather du Plessis-Allan is 32 (younger than the PM even!) - and in this piece he sounds supportive of young women getting ahead...
She even says this :Barry is a genuinely lovely man and people don’t always expect that because he has been around politics a long time. He teaches me all the time that kindness is more important than honesty – it’s a debate I have all the time, but he has persuaded me it is kindness.
Who knew....
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Tell that to David Farrar, who seems to think smearing Golriz Ghahraman is all in a fair days work for a mainstream right wing jerk.
It seems Human Rights doesn't include the right to a defence
It is the process of Justice being served not the criminals crimes.Wasn't it Paula Bennett who said (effectively') :
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Speaking of the great and good corporations and transitional phases...
- Is any one else having any problems doing the Vodafone email forwarding process (Clear- Gmail) from a MacBook on OSX 10.10? -
I'm sure Mallard and some of National's old school will have their battered copies of Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals on hand (it's always interesting seeing what books they have on their office shelves)....
Sounds like they are using rules #4 ("Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.") & #10 ("The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition.") -
Legal Beagle: Questions, but no answers,…, in reply to WH,
I'm unfamiliar with the rules that govern parliamentary procedure but would have thought that asking 6,000 odd questions is something akin to the common law concept of abuse of process.
Sounds like a 'meat-zone' DDoS attack to me...
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UK faces two decades of no earnings growth and more austerity, says IFS
Thinktank’s budget analysis says forecasts for lower productivity, earnings and growth until 2022 were ‘pretty grim reading’ -
Hard News: Abroad and Home, in reply to Tom Semmens,
Will England lose its marbles?
A large section of the Oxbridge British elite are still liberally educated and they carry a big soft spot for the Greeks.
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Hard News: News Memories 2: The Twitter thread, in reply to Bart Janssen,
And that BBC documentary that dramatised the consequences didn’t make me any calmer.
I remember mid-to-late-sixties our class/school being bussed into the Regent Theatre in the Square to watch The War Game – harrowing and sobering stuff!
Watch here movie starts at 8:15min:
https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/war-game/
