Sure we are. But most of the prospective leaders are not.
My impression of EK during the leadership spill around Shaw, was that she believed she should take his place. I recall Marama smiling sympathetically at her, as one does to a child that cannot do the math. With one Maori woman co-leader already, Green ...
ABDICATION, n. An act whereby a sovereign attests her sense of the high temperature of the throne. Poor Isabella's Dead, whose abdication Set all tongues wagging in the Spanish nation. For that performance 'twere unfair to scold her: She wisely left a ...
Pff - the monarchy is not to check the powers of government willy nilly - the proroguing was only found to be illegal after the fact. It is not the monarchy's job to balance the follies of Parliament - that is the task of the loyal opposition - though ...
Charles et al are not to blame for Brexit, nor for the greed and stupidity of the current government. Starmer, Murdoch, and the Guardian did much to prevent Labour exercising its role as a check on conservative folly. Similar forces have made Labour manque...
Bit of an own goal then? The criminal investigation by the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) | MH17 plane crash | Public Prosecution Service
The thing that the writer forgets, or likely never knew, about the house of Windsor is that it typifies a late monarchy, a very different thing from a dark age one, replete with wars of succession. To understand what late monarchies are about, and their ...
I suspect a few members understand the validity, especially for very small parties, of the ability to win an electorate seat. Marama probably remains quite popular, in spite of her anti-male rant, because it has not been her defining moment. EK ... , well,...
Yes, I'm inclined to agree. Contemporary Treaty talk seems to owe more to judicial obiter than to anything plausible in the context of the time of signing. Alleging that sovereignty was not traded in the act of becoming British subjects would have strained...
How the hell is anybody with political ambitions going to reach our modern society. Ask Chloe - best communicator remaining in Parliament. If they wanted to win, the Greens would recognize that.
The Patriarchy, as a feminist bugaboo, is not readily distinguishable from the medieval notion of the Devil, who at least had a degree of reverse ineffability to explain his ubiquity. When the use of this concept steps outside the legitimate role as a ...
Though Labour have supposedly been busy, the effect on the rental market has not been so much as a saving of $50 a week. That would have been a healthy indicator that their policies were working, if indeed housing had been a genuine priority for Labour. ...
No - but I have met less scrupulous uses of the term. Used carelessly, the patriarchy becomes an unfalsifiable assertion.
The patriarchy is, I think, best thought of as a perspective from which to examine oppressions or injustices for systematicity. To the extent that such outcomes are systematic, the line of argument is valid. But, as a tool, it is subject to inappropriate ...
There were a large number of deeply misguided, foreign instigated dupes that meant to "arrest" ministers and conduct a "Nuremburg style" trial - a carbon copy of insurrectionists in Canada and the US. They were criminal, not civil, and should have been ...
The Conservatives are smashing themselves out of the park. Too many terms = too big a butchers bill.
Good God - You think the Guardian knows Christchurch better than people who live there? What ignorance! What arrogance! You need scolded by James Earl Jones. Pshaw - Key's was the absolute laziest and most useless government NZ has ever had. Christchurch -...
All of these are partial truths. Nevertheless, they compare favourably with their predecessors. So your manufactured outrage, not having previously targeted that lamentable shower, seems incredibly selective. Christchurch still lies in ruins, and the ...
If you mean to avoid hypocrisy, you must apply the same standards to your allies as your opponents. On the competence metric Labour are way ahead of any contemporary opposition. You must find another ground to cavil on - there is no shortage.
Starmer is a mere traitor - just like Roger Douglas. Neither of them are too good for the end that William Wallace met. Deselecting Corbyn is inevitable - scoundrels cannot stand the odium of the comparison.
Rather selective criticism don't you think? The Opposition promised the natural outcome of their alleged economic knowledge - but our growth rate under their misgovernance was inflation + low skill migration - where are your critical faculties on that? ...
Everybody is rorting everybody else. Outside the comfortable corruption of the professional classes, that probably isn't true. Our once classless society is devolving into a corrupt oligarchy and an oppressed mass. On Labour's watch.
The problem of dairy prices in NZ owes much to Fonterra charging NZers the same prices as their products cost fob on foreign wharves. What little regulation we have never touched the practice - a prime instance of greedflation.
That was probably the intent - social welfare for lawyers.
By no means all - there are many good environmentalists and soft technology engineers among them still. But they have cuckoos among the leadership, grown fat, and trying to force their more honorable siblings out.
The RB thinks the problem of inflation is too much money chasing too fewer goods. Rather than the results of shortages and sanctions arising from the invasion of Ukraine. Never mind, I'm sure they'll all retire on a fat sinecure irrespective of how ...
Then a broken clock is better than Paddy Gower.
Hmm - John Key's decency (sic) proved too flaccid to prevent him ignoring the referendum over the sale of power assets - for which consumers are still paying excessive charges.
If you add the dismissal of women to Marama Davidson's dismissal of straight white men, you end up with 90 plus percent of the population that these folk don't want voting for them. All this malarkey is funny until the votes are counted.
Well that goes a long way to explain the uselessness of Paddy Gower as a political reporter.
The RMA likely isn't much cop - if it were to protect or enhance those elements of the environment that matter to us, we'd have heard a deal more weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth from the unrighteous Right by now. But by promising to wreck it, ...
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