Great article. The Left has a temptation to oppose Brexit reflexively simply because it originated under a Tory government. In the end though, the EU is a neoliberal project & any nation within it loses a great deal of autonomy in managing its domestic ...
We don't just need to be good ourselves, we're also responsible for the behaviour of any other Homo Sapiens with a penis.
I think the problem is that it's a seller of razors lecturing on morality and behaviour. Maybe we have reached the apex of consumerism - personal hygiene company replaces Church as the arbiter of good and evil.
Not every male i know is strong. How about treating people as individuals, rather than implying some sort of hivemind action on behalf of amorphous demographic groups.
What's the difference between this ad, and a hypothetical ad telling Maori that they need to get their shit together, get a job and lower their crime rate? That's the point, that males are the only acceptable demographic group to collectively attack/...
End our Neanderthal car culture and raise the driving age. Auckland has just figured out how to do PT, but the rest of the country is 30 years behind still (i'm talking about main centres like Hamilton, Tauranga, and ChCh). And I guess driverless cars will...
Also, Christchurch has one fucked up car culture.
If 16 year olds are so undeveloped that they will risk their lives and those of innocent bystanders when they see flashing lights, we shouldn't be allowing them to drive cars in the first place.
Get him to the Greek.
Therein lies the problem. The Brits don't want an integrated EU, that's why there was a movement to leave it. Most could tolerate the old arrangement, but they certainly didn't want MORE Europe. If they stay in now, the EU will never integrate, as one of ...
What a stupid analogy. The Berlin Wall was designed to keep people trapped inside a crappy system that they wanted to escape, not to keep people out.
Under those criteria, the US would probably still be in Vietnam. I mean they're still in Afghanistan after 17 years, right?. Defeating the might of Hitler's Germany only took 6 years. That says to me that they're still engaged in fool's errands. Then ...
New Zealanders simply can't grasp the challenges that the US faces around immigration, so have little right to throw stones. Our "wall" is thousands of kilometres of ocean in every direction.
I wonder if the presence of an actual left-winger arguing against US imperialism in the Middle East, will cause the Blairite automatons of the Standard to rethink their kneejerk criticism of Trump's Syria pullout.
Both the left and the neocon right are united in their opposition to troop withdrawal from Syria...a sad indictment on current day political discourse.
i) Midterm polls like this mean nothing ii) they could reflect more recent Labour faux pas than genuine Nat popularity iii) if anything, they're positive for the Left in that they give Bridges a reprieve iv) the argument to lower the MMP threshold does not...
What we really need to do is the bare minimum to remain palatable to both sides. If we have to nix a single Huawei project to stay in 5 Eyes, and by extension remain part of the Australian/US security umbrella, that's a reasonable tradeoff. Telling the US ...
His name is HOSKING. What is it with Kiwis and name malapropisms? Can't remember how many times i heard JK referred to as "KEYS". Do we have some tic where we need to insert random S's into people's names?
"I’ve been on it in one frame or another since 1978" You just had to put that in there, didn't you? Congratulations though.
I think you should elaborate on all three of those assertions, because i can't see any real evidence.
You're assuming that the establishment disagrees with him. Ties with Saudi go deep into US political circles (both Republican and Democrat). A Clinton White House would certainly see a continued cosy relationship. What has really happened behind the scenes...
Chinese influence is insidious. Don't forget we still have a CCP spy as a sitting National MP.
It's not really a matter of party discipline, it's almost a conscience vote. TBH the hardcore Tory Brexiteers need to get with the programme and accept the deal as the only reasonable one on the table, and Labour MPs need to see it through (respecting ...
The bodies have been cremated by a 1000 degree inferno - the mine is their grave. The families are lashing out in their grief and will gain no satisfaction from the venture.
As they say, charity begins at home. The logical conclusion is that to secure NZ residency, all you have to do is allude to involvement in dodgy shit back in your home country, and claim that the local mob will kneecap you (or worse) if you return. Ie the ...
"I think the slain care little if they sleep or rise again" - Aeschylus Never understood how re-entry became such a left wing cause celebre. Looking at the option Little has chosen, they are only re-entering the mine drift. Further access deeper into the ...
Waste of time and money, and a risk to human life.
You have no counterfactual though. Have electricity price rises outstripped general inflation, and if so by how much?
Of course it does. If something doesn't have a price, you will have a massive overconsumption of it and a corresponding overbuild of capacity. Price rations demand to its higher value uses. The best way to solve energy poverty is redistribution not a ...
Looking like a <5 seat majority for the Democrats. Functionally once you get down to low single digits, it's effectively a "hung house", as marginal Congressmen from either side cannot be relied upon to submit to party discipline.
Randomness is the only fair way. It's not just about effect on consumption patterns, as it needs to be longitudinal across nations too to some extent. If you took the top 1/3rd by wealth or income globally, that's the richest 2.5bn humans, which i ...
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