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 ...
Could well be. But I was talking about civilised opinion.
Labour should of course have offered the subsidy only to manufacturers who would slash pre-subsidy prices below stipulated price points. And they should have selected only one or two manufacturers to receive the subsidy based on how much they slashed ...
I think Andersen botched the attack on Mitchell. Because there is a legitimate critique of his time in Iraq. The question to ask him is this: does he think the Iraq war was justified? If he says "no", the onus is on him to pass the money he made there back...
A government that exaggerates its debt is up to no good and wants to run a TINA scam on the voters. Neatly said. And also applies to deliberately increasing debt by tax cuts targeted at the already-comfortable.
And of course, the mess can only be solved by doing the things we have always wanted to do anyway, have always done in the past, and always will want to do under every possible set of economic conditions in future, including those completely different ...
Information is not instruction. Use your judgment. Not everyone's health status is the same as yours. You are being given the opportunity to choose what you might and might not do on a hot day (isn't choice the ultimate good in the right wing pantheon of ...
Tame is stuck on the "why not cooperate with National" question. Swarbrick's ambition should be not to enable the National Party and lend it credibility by supporting it, but to destroy it. Or more particularly, to use the second pathway of power she ...
Pretty sure it's a giveaway to employers: more people back at work earlier because they feel superficially better. So potentially less cost to employers from using temps/casuals to plug gaps.
All he needed to do was preface the recycled bit with: "As I said last year, and I still believe this to be true, ..." Then round it off by saying how we must work to make sure it stays true always. Something like that would have given it a little bit of ...
Possibly the former and definitely the latter. Not an either/or.
Yet the obvious fit between the ideology of small government/unregulated markets and the denial of minority indigenous rights (particularly in natural resources) goes unnoticed and unremarked on in most of our media. And it's more than a mere "fit" really ...
I assume she got the prize for an entire body of work, not this short verse. So it has to be considered in that context. If this was meant to stand alone as a poem in itself, then it's quite thin conceptually in its understanding of history and emotionally...
"Reward for lack of effort" - heh, very good.
I like John. He's a decent guy with a lyrical soul and a good interviewer who sometimes gets lost in his own effusiveness. But it's not clear if he realises that all the (so-called) anti-woke rhetoric and English-names-first idiocy is a cynical electoral ...
No, they won't. It's featured in the Herald because it can still be blamed on the previous government - provided the reader is sufficiently gullible and reactionary. Give it a year and the Herald will scarcely mention such incidents - Mark Mitchell's ...
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