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Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez on Iran: “Spain is against this disaster. Because we understand that governments are here to improve people's lives, to provide solutions to problems, not to make people's lives worse.

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This story needs a correction. It is absolutely true that admissions are the highest since October, but 184 admissions is the last 4 weeks (to 16 Feb), not last week (to 16 Feb). 184 in a week is 2022 levels. This would be much easier to keep track of if we had the data rather than a Power BI report

She is tiny! I used to walk 2 Rhodesian Ridgebacks for someone for a few months and fell in love with them. Sadly, their owner moved to the South Island

They should be treated as social pariahs, as should anyone who is even a quarter way to becoming one

This is inexcusable. Nobody in this country should ever go hungry. Nobody.

IT IS NOT THE JOB OF A PUBLIC BROADCASTER IN A DEMOCRACY TO REPORT THE NEWS IN A WAY THE GOVERNMENT LIKES. IT IS ESPECIALLY NOT OKAY FOR MINISTERS AND POLITICALLY-APPOINTED BOARD MEMBERS TO DICATE INDIVIDUAL EDITORIAL DECISIONS. THIS SHOULD BE FUCKING OBVIOUS.

It is $2M per individual according to their website

To be perfectly clear, previous perfectly clear statements I have made contained some big rocks in the form of extraneous words which transformed the truth value of the content expressed with perfect clarity away from 'accurate' and towards 'nonsense'

Gordon Campbell, as usual, is well worth a read

werewolf.co.nz/2026/03/gord...

New Zealanders support more taxes on ultra-rich, new poll shows Half of New Zealanders also agreed that billionaires shouldn't exist while people still struggled with basic necessities like housing, food and healthcare.

Tūtira mai ngā iwi!!!

#nzpol

The opposition should start asking whether the PM wishes to correct any previous statements in a point of order at the start of each #nzqt

That would be hilarious!

And of course the embedded quote from the PM starts with "to be perfectly clear", because unintended irony is his only skill

The beginning of each parliamentary session may need to be reserved for Luxon to correct previous statements

Tortoiseshell cat lying on her side clawing the side of a cane chair

Elsie showing that she is just as capable of destroying this cane chair as the 2 boys

By this time in the 2017 to 2020 term, the NZ Government and PM had faced, in sequence.

1. The deadliest terror attack on NZ not done by the Brits

2. A measles outbreak

3. A volcano going off and killing and maiming tourists

4. Hey this Corona virus thing might get serious?!

Imagine Luxon.

well, this kept getting more true, huh

Ironic how most of the most hardline "law and order" types are the same ones who want New Zealand and the USA to ignore international laws

It appears that their real preference is not law & order, but to be judge, jury and executioner based on personal reckons & whims

Very interesting piece for fellow Iran watchers

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz after meeting Trump: “It is indeed the case that at least the American government, according to my level of knowledge and insight today, has no really formulated strategy about the future civil leadership of this country (Iran).

By this logic, the US has been at war with Iran since 1953, when the CIA overthrew Mohammed Mossadegh to ensure that western oil companies, and not the Iranian people, controlled Iranian oil. It’s brutal puppet the Shah tortured & killed for 25 years. That’s why they chanted DEATH TO AMERICA in 1979

The fact that someone who was until recently so senior in Starmer's administration is now writing this dreck tells you everything you need to know about how they got themselves into this mess

One day after centrist organization Third Way shows polling with incredibly skewed language to show 2-1 opposition against abolishing ICE, the simple question of whether or not to abolish ICE gets 50% support (+11) for the first time in the United States

Photo from @daveweigel.bsky.social:

For me it is even longer. Plus I was in Tehran in 1978 when the Shah's troops opened fire on protesters

In today’s NZ Herald

Oh sure .... the shortage of $20M+ homes is the problem that we should be worrying about in NZ right now when we're "moving on" record numbers of homeless people.

FUCK THIS PANDERING TO THE RICH! FUCK OFF!

#nzpol

Huge congrats to the #Ockham finalists!! 🎉

www.nzbookawards.nz/new-zealand-...

Just Nick Robinson casually asking a guest on BBC Today if protests against the war 'should be allowed to go ahead' or 'ought to be banned in this country'.

Let’s see if the EU and UK decide to stand with Spain or if they will throw Spain under the bus to keep allowing the US to use their territory for its illegal war