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Winston Peters arriving at the Koputai port today …

(Credit Stephen Jaquiery from the OFT)

What a complete fool this Prime Minister is. I never want to hear him spout ‘international rules-based order’ ever again.

Complicit in genocide.

I'm so hung up on Christopher Luxon saying "oh well the government has advised people not to go to Gaza for many years" as though Rana, Youssef and Samuel were on an ill-advised ski trip and not, you know, deliberately engaged in humanitarian efforts to deliver aid to victims of genocide

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

Just waiting for another strong and principled defence of international law from Luxon and co. "What I'd say to you is that New Zealand and other countries have issued travel advisories ..."

Unbelievable cowardice.

And the Sydney Anglicans form a breakaway church in 3... 2... 1...

It's quite remarkable. Perhaps they haven't yet regained consciousness or have been left in some sort of non-verbal state. Surely, the public frothing at the mouth must start soon though!

Lots of people are taking that advice. They are now in Australia. Where the jobs are.

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon links Rotorua school attendance and unemployment - NZ Herald Improving school attendance was 'job number one' for cutting future unemployment, he said.

"get off the couch, stop playing PlayStation and go find a job"

Spoken like someone who has no idea what the job market is like right now. Except he does, he's well aware- the cruelty is the point

www.nzherald.co.nz/rotorua-dail...

First woman appointed leader of Church of England Sarah Mullally becomes the female leader of one of last areas of British public life to have been led by men.

Anglican conservatives will be having a pretty big meltdown over this. (This is usually a sign you've done the right thing!)

The public service is to serve the public. It's not a matter of being 'relaxed' or not (shades of David Brent again) but of meeting need. That's what we pay taxes for you neo-liberal ideologue. I don't want artificial financial constraint if it means people don't have food, shelter & purpose #Nzpol

The Kushner-Blair Gaza plan is a moral atrocity – and a policy catastrophe | Josh Paul Jared Kushner and Tony Blair’s neocolonial venture would be an incompatible transplant that would be rejected by the body

"But history – indeed, very recent history – shows that the Kushner-Blair proposal is not only a moral atrocity, but a policy one, too."

The appointment of culture warriors such as Elizabeth Rata to these positions certainly doesn't help ensure a robust process, making any sort of dispassionate review of existing arrangements or accommodation of differing perspectives practically impossible.

Recapturing the Senior English Curriculum 2024 had been a good year for Stanford. The speed bump that was the outcry over the senior English curriculum and the lack of consultation had been smoothly managed by her, and she was on a roll wi…

It is healthy for there to be differences of opinion on matters of public policy and perfectly legitimate for a government to disagree with and seek to depart from what may have become the settled wisdom of the bureaucracy.

However, the processes outlined here seems neither robust nor transparent.

What are people saying about our new Nauru detention deal? | Fiona Katauskas Not everyone’s rating it highly

No stars- my cartoon for @australia.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Too many buildings not reduced to rubble by Israel for this to be the real thing.

You cannot have a functioning classroom under these conditions. As I've said before, classroom surveillance has been a much bigger and more damaging change to campus than wokeness.

When I was a teenager there was a bus direct from my hometown in Germany to London - we had a British army base, and this direct bus connection was one of the benefits of that. One summer I went on that bus to go volunteer in an old people's home in Southend-on-Sea. I had just turned 18 and was... 🧵

First images of Tony Blair entering Gaza as head of the new temporary international administration

What has Yvette Cooper’s proscription of Palestine Action done to this country?

Beyond absurd. It’s extreme authoritarianism. These police should be arresting rapists & crooks, not neglecting those duties to spend time arresting citizens standing against genocide.

It undermines police and the law.

The quite proper story isn’t who wrote the paper: it’s why the minister took that position.

When you rely on the private sector to act as your archivist for efforts to influence elections, you’re taking a *huge* risk that the private sector may one day find this to be politically inconvenient or not generating any revenue to offset its costs.

Should have been a publicly funded foundation.

This would be why I am such a strident critic of digitization as a substitute for actual archival preservation. My sixteenth century documents are far sturdier and likely to survive another 500 years than the detritus on the internet. And digitization is not democratization.

As soon as I saw Tony Blair's name, I'm out.

I don't believe a word that comes out of Trump, Netanyahu, or Blair's gobs.

This is Costa Del Gaza resorts with the surviving Palestinian population as staff. It's despicable.

My alternative and equally sensible peace proposition for Gaza - Israel withdraws, everyone else who did nothing to stop genocide pays for a rebuild (with significant improvements), it's governed by a Palestinian administration facilitated by Egypt