Written By: - Date published: 8:59 am, March 9th, 2024 - 15 comments
How do we prevent the decline of broadcast tv news being a deep wound to our democracy?
Written By: - Date published: 1:22 pm, March 4th, 2024 - 44 comments
The New Zealand media sector has been in turmoil during the past week. But Broadcasting Minister has refused to publicly discuss what is happening or what her government proposes to do about it.
Written By: - Date published: 8:37 am, March 3rd, 2024 - 7 comments
What if life followed fiction and Gaza was explained by Dune 2? Sigh. It isn’t.
Written By: - Date published: 2:40 pm, February 11th, 2024 - 60 comments
In a guest post Seddonville Miner explores links between the Atlas Network and the Taxpayer’s Union.
Written By: - Date published: 9:21 am, January 13th, 2024 - 21 comments
An expanding Middle East war that puts the Red Sea and Suez tanker route at risk is a major risk to us because it could hit the global price of oil.
Written By: - Date published: 12:15 pm, January 7th, 2024 - 115 comments
A George Monbiot article in the Guardian made me wonder what effect the Atlas Network is having on New Zealand politics through the Taxpayer’s Union. Publicly available information suggests considerable funding is being made available and that the current Government’s priorities are precisely those that the Atlas Network would approve of.
Written By: - Date published: 10:51 am, January 5th, 2024 - 39 comments
Can Israel lose a moral battle in Gaza and yet still win?
Written By: - Date published: 9:03 am, December 31st, 2023 - 64 comments
New Zealand’s rich are endlessly fascinating, but as wealth concentrates ever tighter we are poorer.
Written By: - Date published: 5:06 pm, December 28th, 2023 - 47 comments
The purpose of everyone in New Zealand is to keep Wanaka pure.
Written By: - Date published: 8:53 am, December 25th, 2023 - 4 comments
It is Christmas time and the eternal debate about who wrote the best Christmas song ever is being debated yet again. For me there is only one possible contender.
Written By: - Date published: 9:13 am, December 23rd, 2023 - 69 comments
As National dismantles with speed some of the institutional reforms made by the last Labour Government the concern is that we may have witnessed the peak in progressive influence.
Written By: - Date published: 8:31 am, December 19th, 2023 - 49 comments
“A Left government with any claim to progressive credentials will focus on three policy areas – first, high-quality, high value production; second, taxation measures to reduce significantly wealth differences; third, strengthened democracy, including industrial democracy beyond collective bargaining. These three are indispensable. A Left politics, which does not build on these three, will founder.”
Written By: - Date published: 1:55 pm, December 17th, 2023 - 28 comments
Is the Treaty a contemporary guide or an archaic historical document?
Written By: - Date published: 5:36 pm, December 6th, 2023 - 18 comments
Pope Francis has been pope for a bit over 10 years. He’s made a difference.
Written By: - Date published: 10:08 am, November 27th, 2023 - 22 comments
“Labour should be as focused on production as it is on distribution. Labour’s job is not simply to distribute such resources as accrue to the state; it is to promote production and trade that underpin fairer distribution, but under particular conditions.”
Written By: - Date published: 7:29 am, November 16th, 2023 - 12 comments
We are further away from peace in parts of the world than a decade ago. But pessimism about peace isn’t a foregone conclusion.
Written By: - Date published: 8:04 am, November 2nd, 2023 - 14 comments
There is no “just transition” occurring on New Zealand’s west coast and there should be.
Written By: - Date published: 9:26 am, November 1st, 2023 - 87 comments
Bryce Edwards and Josie Pagani have suggested that there should be more working class in Parliament. But the quality of their analysis leaves a lot to be desired.
Written By: - Date published: 11:07 am, October 17th, 2023 - 9 comments
I’m going to show you what a large scale effective political act in a second hand store looked like recently.
Written By: - Date published: 8:33 am, October 10th, 2023 - 12 comments
What has happened to the fine art of intelligent heckling?
Written By: - Date published: 7:00 am, August 29th, 2023 - 35 comments
Fonterra represents New Zealand’s largest internal economic threat. And promise.
Written By: - Date published: 10:47 am, August 11th, 2023 - 11 comments
Ad believes the Barbie Movie will be a mobilising element in regaining Democrat balance in Congress (maybe not the Senate) and the White House.
Written By: - Date published: 7:47 am, July 30th, 2023 - 163 comments
We need to recognise our risk to the capital flight risk of the 1%, but also recognise the benefit to the 99% of us.
Written By: - Date published: 10:47 am, July 25th, 2023 - 5 comments
It does not mean they are not worth trying; it means they will be fights against entrenched power.
Written By: - Date published: 9:19 am, July 9th, 2023 - 2 comments
Prime Minister Chris Hipkins spoke this week on how the Government is acting to protect and advance the safety and security of New Zealand and New Zealanders while dealing with those countries that have most influence over us.
Written By: - Date published: 8:24 am, May 21st, 2023 - 41 comments
When we continue to spend our money on stupid stuff, we get a dumb country.
Written By: - Date published: 12:46 pm, May 13th, 2023 - 33 comments
A guest post by Seddonville Miner outlining the history of voting rights in New Zealand and how Christopher Luxon’s recent claims about our voting system are hopelessly incorrect.
Written By: - Date published: 8:01 am, May 9th, 2023 - 16 comments
In case we just missed it, New Zealand really has picked a side. Prime Minister Hipkins will head to the NATO summit in Lithuania together with Australia, Japan and South Korean leaders. Also Vladimir Zelinskyy is intending to go as well.
Written By: - Date published: 10:58 am, May 6th, 2023 - 50 comments
We are mature enough to have our own leader. Own our own shit.
Written By: - Date published: 12:00 pm, April 28th, 2023 - 78 comments
I’ve worked my way through two books recently, both on extremist sects, one about New Zealand groups and one about those in the United States of America. It’s startling.
Written By: - Date published: 10:41 am, April 28th, 2023 - 37 comments
This government has within its power the ability to alter the crippling cost of living increases we now face. If they don’t do the political job they can do with prices, they will lose power at the election.
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