What I took from her interview on RNZ this morning was that the word "exterminate" was used deliberately to provoke a response, because words like "deculturation" go over peoples' heads. The APA's definition of deculturation says: the processes, ...
If they get rid of the popular food, more of what is offered will be uneaten by the kids. Wastage therefore goes up and Seymour then has the manufactured evidence for declaring the whole thing a silly idea and canning it entirely. He's skinning the cat in ...
Luxon will (or should) soon pay the price of talking up a big game on crime during the election campaign and then 'delivering' an inevitable failure - where the failure is baked in to the way they're approaching the problem. Give it another 6 months and ...
Probably Newsense has just temporarily forgotten what a sanctified place business owners occupy within the right-wing mind. So sanctified, that any perturbation of their divine mission is a sin.
This approach - especially if it is repeated in regions without Auckland's large population and existing system of charging for water - seems designed to put small, local water-management entities into financial difficulty Thus making them ripe for ...
Labour in 1972-75 were tipped out of office by: the death of a charismatic leader who won them the 1972 election, an economic shock that originated offshore (OPEC oil price hikes); the appointment of an outstanding leader of the opposition (Muldoon) who ...
I'm delighted to be informed by somebody or other that "[m]en aren’t socialised to have social and emotional skills". Obviously I must be delighted because I lack the emotional skills to be upset by it. In fact, my appalling and brutalist lack of such ...
...it sounds as though there are serious problems with the way changes are being rolled out No doubt. It's hard to see how there couldn't be, especially when trying to retrofit a sane infrastructure to an insanely-designed city (I speak as an Aucklander.)...
She behaved as though shouting at them about the facts will make some difference to what they do. Whether that's because she imagined they were persuadable or just because she failed to understand that the chamber is a bear pit, is ultimately a guess.
I don't doubt that NACT have Genter categorised as someone belonging to the "reality-based community" who can therefore be provoked into angry, self-damaging over-reaction by their malicious deception and distortion. However, Genter should be aware of that...
There's a theory that the tactics employed in the colonies eventually make their way back to the heart of empire - as though they were just a dress-rehearsal. That may partly explain the apparent contradiction of why the anti-Semitic far-right in the US so...
Rage is a rational response to clowns of all stripes and their fact-free reckons, particularly if you are someone who actually knows something about a topic and you suspect that their idiocy is driven by malice. But the behaviour can't be excused - both ...
Let's imagine next year pass rates of both Maaori/Pasifika and other students increase by 5 %, and let's assume this is not due to dumbing down or to marking the work of Maaori & Pasifika students more leniently. Surely this is a great result. Not ...
It was potentially confusing language for sure. She claimed that it was rare for a newly-elected government to be behind the opposition in a political poll so early in their term. With only two previous cases: Clark in 2006 and and Key in 2015. Both were ...
I think you are trying to separate the inseparable again. What is the purpose of Shaw's concern for the climate and the environment - does he think these are intrinsic goods in themselves? Clearly not - they are a necessary precondition for the type of ...
It was a good interview. Though I thought James allowed himself to get a bit hijacked by the perennial question of whether Greens would you work with National. Tame comes back to it in every interview. I would have liked Shaw to say something like this: If...
Fair enough. But I think that you have a dilemma here. His politics (that you don't agree with) is nothing but the material substantiation of his metaphorical "great heart" (which you admire). To turn this into something other than a flat contradiction, ...
How do we know whether a self-proclaimed free speech advocate actually means what they say - or in reality just seeks the continued dominance of their preferred speech and the social and economic arrangements that their preferred speech justifies? Some ...
It doesn't really matter now whether Luxon was a good or a bad CEO. Because being a CEO is the complete opposite of being a Prime Minister.
At least Truss was transparently daft and unintentionally hilarious. Whereas Willis just radiates menace and Luxon flaps around SE Asia like a hyperventilating turkey.
Yep sorry. Device crashed mid-way through. Was a reply to Sanctuary at 1.
It's really not that hard to separate discussion of a female scholar's work from a private 'note to self' that she's also quite attractive. This guy's refusal to do so looks to me like a tangential way of disparaging or ignoring her work. Which is daft, ...
Most are just lost to retirement I can believe that. Having been laid off a private sector job at 60 and being regarded by prospective employers as too old, out of date and probably unmotivated - you eke out what you can for a few years in various gigs ...
If enacted it would give Chris Bishop, Simeon Brown and Shane Jones extraordinary powers... We know the Bill is a dog because the people championing it would have apoplexy if those three names were changed to (say) Chloe Swarbrick, Rawiri Waititi and ...
Is it just me, or is there generally an irrational hatred of landlords here? It's probably just you. What you see on this site is neither hatred nor irrational. There is no hatred of landlords. Some of my friends are landlords and they are decent enough ...
You criticise the Guardian ("Grauniad") for bias while including a link that is based on a story from the Telegraph - known by some as the "Torygraph" because of its bias. But that's a minor matter. I do agree that you can't legislate to stop people from ...
...journalists in Wellington who flat with public servants are partly to blame... Did EngLit grad Nicola ever read King Lear? From Act III - Scene VII. REGAN: Give me thy sword. A peasant stand up thus? [Takes a sword, and runs at the servant from behind,...
Making the ownership of rental properties more attractive for Mum & Dad investors theoretically increases the demand for these properties. This will tend to place upward pressure on house prices in a situation of constrained supply. Our lovely Mum & Dad ...
It's the application of the purifying fire of Market Forces. If the parents of prospective students see that a school has low attendance figures, they'll send their kids elsewhere. The school will get a poor reputation, property prices in that zone will ...
As a rule of thumb, the right will decentralise when that means devolving decision-making, or providing business opportunities, to their kind of people. Such as the owners of charter schools or business/farmer-dominated rural councils. The best counter to ...
Is there a journalist reckless enough to direct a question to Hamish Rutherford, who lurks at Luxon's side in pressers, rather than to Luxon himself? As in "Can I ask Hamish a question? I'd prefer to talk to the ventriloquist, not his dummy".
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