Thank you for your post. Intergenerational inequality and the world/society the kids will inherit worries me. Driving in the car recently my little daughter announced, "Mummy when I grow up and have a house, I'm going to paint it bright blue!" I felt so ...
yes to that - who are they? My copy (the last I buy while she is in it) hit the recycling bin long ago
I don't mind newspapers having right wing or left wing columnists. Or ex-MPs writing columns. I do mind sitting MPs being given a platform to promote themselves. I won't be buying the SST while she is in there. Not censorship, just consumer choice. I don't...
I buy the SST, a hangover from living in countries with great Sunday papers. Today, I saw she is a columnist and has an article all about her which seems to be the beginning of a planned rehabilitation process. I cannot understand how an MP can be a ...
It is hard is understand how having no recollection of an 11 year old pro forma letter makes resignation necessary but lying to parliament doesn't - I would love Armstrong to explain the difference. Still, the right wing media puppet masters might be ...
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I loved it during the election when someone found the hairdresser of Levin who spoke out in support of raising the minimum wage and contradicted Key's assertion about how small employers (in particular haridressers in Levin) would react. Joyce has told us ...
I was in the fifth form and passionate about my anti-tour views and the evils of apartheid. When Key first said he couldn't remember, I was sure he was lying because history had inconveniently placed him on the wrong side. Now, I actually believe him. He ...
I have to decide whether I will vote before I decide who to vote for. Last time round I was desperate for Cunliffe to win. This time, I have no strong feelings. I can see them all doing ok. I think we have also realised now that this is a three year ...
Yes, I feel very sorry for left wing people in the US who will wake up today knowing that the people who oppose universal healthcare, excellent public eduction, etc etc have triumphed. It occurred to me as I was driving to work this morning that it must ...
Me too.
I remember those times. I was a student in Dunedin (minimal fees, great bursary thank-you State) we had invited a couple of gay friends to dinner. They didn't turn up, then much later they did. Covered in blood. They had been gay-bashed by a car-load of ...
I read on wikipedia that John Key's Dad went to fight in the Spanish civil war
The carnage being rained is a direct result of the insane invasion of Iraq which Key wanted NZ to be part of. So we could sell more butter to the yanks. Still need to shift more of it...
I think he has said himself that he is not an "ideology" type of person. The only thing I recall he has said he that believes in are asset sales. Is there another living NZer that cannot recall what they thought about the Springbok tour? When he first came...
yes blue leopard. In my capacity as a left wing person who really, really, cares about this country, I completely agree with you.
Thanks Micky I needed some humour in my day. Parody surely. If not, I want some of what he is smoking.
Flogging off our state housing stock, falling dollar making our houses and land even more of a bargain for overseas speculators, cynically gaming the OIA, etc etc, t'would be enough to make one quite worried were it not for the prospect of a BRIGHT SHINEY ...
Dear Mr Shearer I am really sorry if your feelings were hurt by people critising your performance as our leader but we do that here - the free speech thing. It is actually healthy. I am very impressed by the honourable work you did overseas but really ...
I thought Shearer's comments were bizarre. I had no particular opinion of him when he became leader but as a patriot, was desperate for Labour to do well. No one conspired to make him bumbling and inarticulate but my heart sank further with every bumbled, ...
If this is true I am very disappointed. It was not DC's fault that the dirty politics gang spent a year smearing him or that dirty politics itself starved those excellent labour policies of oxygen. Sure there were slips and mistakes but a double standard ...
Just caught up with the weekend Herald and see yet again they are telling Cunliffe to go away. Makes me even more determined to vote for him.
He was. He did.
you mean 5-6 westeners don't you Phillip? Syrians and Iraqis are people too although their (mass) executions don't get the headlines. IS are bad guys. However, the worst guys, Bush/Blair et al started this whole mess. National wanted a piece of that too. ...
Agree. I think he lacks political experience as does the other guy. He and Mallard acted like complete muppets when Collins was suing them for defamation.
Do we need a private prosecution regarding the accessing of the labour party database?
I see John Armstrong in the Herald is once again telling David Cunliffe to give up and go away. Ground hog day. Can anybody do a timeline showing the number of times that Armstrong and others at the Herald have called for Cunliffe's resignation in the year...
No one will play it - that would be dumb and bigoted and we are better than that,
Being progressive makes NZ feel good about ourselves I think. His being gay probably has as many pluses as minuses and is not the reason for him not being the one right now (the reason for me is that I am not over Cunliffe). It would be like saying the ...
They really, really want Cunliffe gone and either mumbleface back or Robertson who does not command wide support. Why? They don't care about Labour so it has to be something else.
I think the nats will be relieved to see Cunliffe go. The dirty politics worked. He was in the job for eleven months being subjected to dirty politics and character smears. He made John Key sweat during the debates. Cunliffe with a united caucus and party ...
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