Hat tip to Johnnie Moore for this one, on Twitter earlier today.
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My personal blog, started in 2006. No paid or guest posts, no link sales. Archive for the ‘politics’ categoryHalf an hour is a long time in politics20.07.2022Hat tip to Johnnie Moore for this one, on Twitter earlier today.
Tags: 2022, humour, Johnnie Moore, politics, Twitter, UK I’m not the Jack Yan running for mayor of Toronto11.07.2022
To readers from Toronto, and anyone else emailing me about this, Iâm not the guy running for mayor there. I realize Iâm way more likely to come up in searches for my name and for my name with mayor or mayoral candidate, since my namesake doesnât appear to have much of a digital trail yet. If youâre the Toronto mayoral candidate, please get in touch. I have a domain name you might be interested in. English and French spoken. (Which no doubt will add to the confusion.) Tags: 2022, Canada, election, local government, Ontario, politics, Toronto They’re brainwashed by the cult of Boris, so the next Tory leader will be an ideologue10.07.2022Sean O’Grady puts into his opinion piece what so many of us have said. He does it far better than I could.
Sunak, Javid and others are in no position to be preaching about integrity. If seeing the monarch mourn her husband whilst sitting alone due to COVID-19 restrictions at the same time Johnson partied at his ‘work event’ didn’t concern them, are we to believe that they are one bit concerned about sexual assault? Pull the other one. If the Tories are smart, they’ll go for someone well outside this band of muppets. But as O’Grady also states, ‘Your next PM, like Johnson, will be chosen by about 90,000 mostly elderly, reactionary and unrepresentative members of the Conservative Party.’ In such cases, name recognition and familiarity will decide the next leader. Sadly, that’s unlikely to be anyone from the moderate wing of the Conservative Party. That is now a minority. Will they promote a better culture than Johnson did? Possibly. If they have some sense of organization and leadership. But that alone is not going to fix the UK’s problems. Ideologues should not come before pragmatists, but it’s hard to see any other outcome given what the Conservative Party has become. Tags: 2022, Boris Johnson, Conservatives, deception, ethics, media, newspaper, politics, scandal, The Independent, UK My notes from RNZ’s The Panel, Wednesday, June 2225.06.2022
Last Wednesdayâs notes for âIâve been thinkingâ are:
You can find the three parts here on the RNZ website: the pre-Panel, part one, and part two. Wallace and Sally were in the Auckland studio, while I was in the Wellington one, trying not to change Kathryn Ryanâs desk set-up. I have to say Wallace is a very capable host as he knows I can’t see them, so he’ll give me little nudges where I can chime in. It was nice to be back on after six months and hopefully I kept up the notion that RNZ National is for the thinking New Zealander. Tags: 2022, Aotearoa, New Zealand, politics, radio, Radio New Zealand, Wallace Chapman We have been warned25.06.2022Let fellow Tweeters have the say on today’s events in the USA.
Tags: 2022, Aotearoa, fascism, law, media, New Zealand, Twitter, USA Political coverage is not based around merit15.06.2022How fascinating. Eight years ago, I had high hopes for this Christopher Luxon, according to this blog. Who knew that as a politician, the guy would really let me down? I Tweeted:
The reality is I see a guy who doesn’t have a full grasp of the issues at hand, spouting soundbites that fail to satisfy any real analysis, yet media are giving him an easy ride. I’ve recorded my gripes with how some media cover politics beforeâand I reflect on how suited my 2010-campaign policies, authored in 2009, could have placed this city in such a great position for the pandemicâand once again, we realize that coverage is not meritorious. In some cases, it will be down to the limited intellect of the journalist or editor to grasp the issues at hand (can I name some names!), and I believe in other cases, there is an editorial slant that proprietors want (and hire accordingly). We saw it with Tony Blair in 1997 (‘Change’; ‘New Labour, new Britain’), and we’re seeing it again. I tend to vote for people who do the hard yards, and this bloke isn’t the knight in shining armour that many thought he was. The likes of George Gair would not recognize this National Party. Tags: 2022, Aotearoa, journalism, media, National Party, New Zealand, politics June 2022 gallery03.06.2022Here are June 2022âs imagesâaides-mĂ©moires, photos of interest, and miscellaneous items. I append to this gallery through the month. Notes Tags: 1960s, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1970, 1970s, 1977, 1979, 1980s, 1982, 1985, 1987, 2015, 2022, actress, advertisement, airline, AMC, beauty, book, Brexit, car, celebrity, England, film, Ford, Germany, Göteborg, Göteborgs-Posten, humour, Instagram, James Bond, London, marketing, media, Medinge Group, modelling, modernism, newspaper, Nissan, Panos Papadopoulos, Philips, retro, Robert Brownjohn, Roger Moore, Sean Connery, sexism, Sweden, TV, Twitter, UK, USA Back, on the new box28.03.2022There are a few experiments going on here now that this blog is on the new server. Massive thanks to my friend who has been working tirelessly to get us on to the new box and into the 2020s. First, thereâs a post counter, though as itâs freshly installed, it doesnât show a true count. There is a way to get the data out of Yuzo Related Posts into the counterâeven though thatâs not entirely accurate, either, it would be nice to show the record counts I had back in 2016 on the two posts revealing Facebookâs highly questionable âmalware scannerâ. Secondly, we havenât found a good related post plug-in to replace Yuzo. Youâll see two sets of related posts here. The second is by another company who claims their software will pick up the first image in each post in the event that I have not set up a featured image or thumbnail; as you can see, it doesnât do what it says on the tin. Some of you will have seen a bunch of links from this blog sent out via social media as the new installation became live, and I apologize for those. Please bear with us while we work through it all. The related post plug-in issue has been the big one: there are many, but they either donât do as they claimed, or they have terrible design. Even Wordpressâs native one cannot do the simple task of taking the first image from a post, which Yuzo does with ease. In short: I donât get you. And I try to have empathy. When I make my arguments, they arenât pulled out of the ether. I try to back up what Iâve said. When I make an attack in social media, or even in media, thereâs a wealth of reasons, many of which have been detailed on this blog. Of course there are always opposing viewpoints, so itâs fine if you state your case. And of course itâs fine if you point out faults in my argument. But to point the âtut tutâ finger at me and imply that I either shouldnât or Iâm mistaken, without backing yourselves up? So where are you coming from? In the absence of any supporting argument, there are only a handful of potential conclusions. 1. Youâre corrupt or you like corruption. You donât mind that these companies work outside the law, never do as they claim, invade peopleâs privacy, and place society in jeopardy. 2. You love the establishment and you donât like people rocking the boat. It doesnât matter what they do, theyâre the establishment. Theyâre above us, and thatâs fine. 3. You donât accept othersâ viewpoints, or youâre unable to grasp them due to your own limitations. 4. Youâre blind to whatâs been happening or you choose to turn a blind eye. Iâve heard this bullshit my entire life. When I did my first case at 22, representing myself, suing someone over an unpaid bill, I heard similar things. âMaybe thereâs a reason he hasnât paid you.â âThey never signed a contract, so no contract exists.â As far as I can tell, they were a variant of those four, since one of the defendants was the president of a political party. I won the case since I was in the right, and a bunch of con artists didnât get away with their grift. The tightwad paid on the last possible day. I was at the District Court with a warrant of arrest for the registrar to sign when he advised me that the money had been paid in that morning. I did this case in the wake of my motherâs passing. It amazed me that there were people who assumed I was in the wrong in the setting of a law student versus an establishment white guy. Their defence was full of contradictions because they never had any truth backing it up. I also learned just because Simpson Grierson represented them that no one should be scared of big-name law firms. Later on, as I served as an expert witness in many cases, that belief became more cemented. Equally, no one should put any weight on what Mark Zuckerberg says since history keeps showing that he never means it; and we should believe Google will try one on, trying to snoop wherever they can, because history shows that they will. 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