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 ...
Why at the moment? Because most of the the media don't really have any interest in ideas. They are like sports commentators. So for now it's all about how Labour got smashed in an election - will they change leaders, how do they recover, how is their ...
Not sure it works like that Ad. There is virtually nothing Hipkins could do at the moment that would get "mainstream cut-through" - unless it's something that reflects badly on him, the Labour Party or the left generally. To view the media as a neutral ...
He's not very bright or he's fibbing. Possibly both. I think he's waging a shameless class war and fibbing about it.
Indeed Michael @2.1. Passive income can give people financial freedom. However, in the case of residential rental properties, this passive income is partially extracted from someone else, and it increases property prices through the demand for this ...
There are Israeli ports where humanitarian aid could be landed. The US could tell Israel to let it through - and if they do not, then threaten the withdrawal of military aid and the sort of sanctions (rightfully) imposed on Putin's Russia. My suspicion is ...
He is right. It is irrelevant how much spending the government brings in regarding its revenue. Surely Gosman is only accidentally right here? He simply means that if the Government gives up one source of revenue, they can reprioritise how they spend ...
Cabinet collective responsibility - Marky must be hating that now. More seriously, I'm wondering how long it will be before we can fairly call Mark Mitchell a failure in reducing crime - does he need a year, two, six? In any case, if crime goes down (or up...
I suspect we already have some idea why - they are comfortable with order and hierarchy - and to some extent that's why they joined.
National definitely weren't saying a.), and they weren't openly saying b.) despite clearly believing it, because no politician can openly say that wages are too high. Instead they claimed that inflation and the ensuing cost of living crisis was caused by "...
My recollection is that they did talk about the cost of living crisis a lot before the election. What they didn't acknowledge was the flat contradiction between this faux concern and their desire to lower wages (as you note) and increase house prices.
Heh. I can recall a workplace where all the middle-aged mostly conservative dudes who enjoyed a bit of polite speeding now and again (nothing outrageous, just the habitual seeking to gain an advantage over others on the road and everywhere else) complained...
They are careful to call it a downward pressure, not a decrease. Therefore if rents don't fall, or even rise, they can easily and unproveably claim that they would have risen/risen more without this change .
Maybe it's so obvious that their behaviour may run foul of their employment contract, that it doesn't need mentioning? I'm sure the Hurricanes management have been going over that ground right from the start. The difficulty is that their calculation is a ...
Agreed. Her opponents are not "terrible people" - I'm sure they are quite pleasant most of the time in their interactions with others. That's what allowed Shaw to operate in the way he did. But although they are not terrible people, they do believe ...
Seymour seems to want only privately-owned media to exist. Because given who has the money (and who hasn't) to fund such enterprises, that means wall to wall media that is favourable to the Nat-ACT agenda. It would throw any media that attempts to be ...
If only we could compare this data to a different case where similar largesse is distributed exclusively to people at the bottom of the wealth-power pyramid. But we can't, because it never is distributed that way. It's likely that most of the money dished ...
The coalition of crackpots can cut free school lunches - but only if they end poverty first. The primary purpose of free lunches for lower decile schools is to soften the effects of our shameful poverty and inequality levels. It's a way of indirectly doing...
Right-wing advocates of "free speech" are mostly authoritarians who are determined to continue the entrenched dominance of their preferred speech by any legal means available.
The whole incident is just National Party DNA in action: getting ahead financially by using any legal means available, irrespective of the broader effects on others or on society in general. Mere legality is their only test of what is acceptable. To be ...
Scott Hamilton is consistently good and it's a plausible diagnosis: single-issue obsession plus a craving for radical excitement.
It's an allowance to enable you to do a job, not a salary for doing the job. It's a benefit that is generously dished out only to our imagined and disproportionately rewarded elites. It's perfectly valid and moral to means test it.
Why should he be expected to pay his expenses out of his own pocket just because he is richer than most people Have you ever heard of means testing the entitlements paid out by the state? Or the process of abatement if you earn some temporary or part-time...
The unparalleled genius of our 'wealth-creators' must be constantly rewarded or else they will abandon us.
By subverted you just mean changed. It's a difference of opinion, not a subterfuge, misdemeanor or crime. The right do not like the change, or the person leading it, so have ended it.
By "subverted" you merely mean "changed" it's just a difference of opinon not a subterfuge misdemeanor or crime.
The virulence with which the Right tries to silence any prominent voices they dislike, sits oddly with their supposed championing of free speech.
I have made it perfectly clear before that there is something for Mitchell to answer to. It does not relate to any particular action he may or may not have undertaken in Iraq. It is the fact that he was there at all, making money off the back of a self-...
"Irrigated land can quadruple in value..." As that quadrupling as been achieved by stealing a public resource (natural water system, recreational location and thing of beauty) - the monetary value of the quadrupling and all additional operating income ...
Useful (to the corporate lobbyists) idiots like Phelps will pop up as long as climate action is seen as threatening livelihoods, not protecting them. The irony is that if there was a 'natural' reason for mining to stop (cost of extraction too high, seam ...
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