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 Having been laid off a private sector job at 60 and being regarded by prospective employers as too old, out of date and probably unmotivated - you eke out what you can for a few years in various gigs ...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".
Always found Farrar's cultivated tone of sweet reasonableness on mainstream platforms like RNZ irritating. A right wing janitor who superficially tidies up the bathroom, but leaves pathogens on every surface.
You are not getting away with thinly-veiled accusations of anti-Semitism directed at me my friend. I will not tolerate your ugly, unfounded smears. Because I wasn't talking about friendly fire at all. I am talking about well-marked vehicles of an aid ...
"We are angry, as a change in government hasn't resulted in retail crime statistics trending towards zero," Kushal said at the time. Kushal always struck me as absurdly ignorant about the causes of crime and what a government can do about it in the short ...
If the IDF targeted these three well-marked vehicles which have permission from Israel to operate in Gaza, it appears that they don't particularly care if aid-workers are killed - as long as some Hamas fighters are also killed. Those Hamas fighters might ...
30-odd points in a 100-day 'plan' is histrionic arm waving, not a plan.
The goal has to be a world that contains no contradiction between your story and Kay's. Everyone should be safe no matter how they view and express their true selves - except for those who set out to control, demean and harm others.
Yes. There is a simple and effective way to destroy an historical agreement made between a majority (or an incipient majority that became one after 1840) and a minority. You subject it to a majoritarian veto 180 years later. I though ACT were law and order...
Does "dominion over ... every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth" mean we have the right to tell Russell Coutts to eff off? Seems so to me.
Ash Sarkar interviewed Robeyns on Novara about a month ago. One of the things Robeyns suggested, and admitted she was perhaps rare in doing so, was that great wealth cannot in any meaningful way , be deserved. She maybe doesn't spend enough time talking ...
No - these are always 'set-up' questions. Get the "Yes" from the Minister to the broad question and follow with a supplementary question on a specific matter where the "Yes" is difficult to justify. Of course the Minister almost always knows what topic the...
Broadly agree with that. With a couple of cautions. First, that if you have no principles, you can never be a hypocrite, but if you profess to have principles, you'll be called a hypocrite all the time. Second, this aggression should stop short of ...
Thanks for your recollections Anne. I caught a bus in Vivian St not far from Trades Hall that morning - less than half an hour before the explosion. I was too young and politically naive at the time to have much inkling of what was happening and why.
And if you have the readies, you are likely to be on a higher income, which means the payment is abated and it may not be worth the effort to claim. In any case, we shall see what the uptake is. The whole thing appears to me like a parody of the idiotic ...
Smotrich is clearly a man who "gets things done".
Plus he is nearer the end of his career than the start. So if it goes to custard, the party is not burning off emerging talent before its time.
OK, but when they announce policy it had better: not be timid because it will seem weak and inadequate be redistributive, because undeservedly wealthy people are as bad for society, democracy and the economy as poor ones. not hit moderately affluent ...
Thanks Mickey. I have some first-hand experience in this area. Let me just say this. If an exhausted woman who has been looking after her disabled child gets a pedicure in order to feel better about herself for a while, I say "fill your boots". Go ...
I recall him saying somewhere that when he first arrived in NZ, he was sounded out by Roger Kerr, who clearly wanted to know if Oram was a strict adherent to the one true faith of neoliberal economics. Oram was a brave man to stick to his principles in ...
The real problem with Peter's comments is that he claimed that the rationale behind co-governance was the Nazi ideology of racial superiority. That is just factually incorrect. The rationale behind co-governance is that this is how the Crown meets its ...
What it simply requires is for Hipkins to try It does require that - as I said. But for a period after a heavy election defeat, that is usually not enough. And it's part of the broader culture which the media reflects back at us - recent losers are ...
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