The problem with the school donation thing is, that the schools that need them most are those least likely to get them. Because their parents just can't afford it. Whereas places like Auckland Grammar can afford to pay their teachers way over the scale ...
Well according to radio New Zealand, research shows just the opposite. But when has research ever engaged a right-wing politician? Or any politician for that matter. Their general attitude towards research is "I want to do such and such, find me some ...
I have repeatedly posted a list of things that are wrong with Trump and asked his supporters to engage with them and then explain why they are voting for him. I must've done this a dozen times now at least. Not one reply, except for someone who said it ...
It's partly because whoever wins the American election – it affects the whole world. I've often thought we should all have a vote in them, considering how much they affect us.
The course they have. But Douglas made it respectable.
I don't think they actually care. There are a lot of people on that side who believe that the poor deserve what they get. Or what they don't get actually I guess. I'm sure they do in an academic sort of way, and I sure they'd probably be on very quickly if...
I can't see much sense in attacking Bill Clinton. Bill is not actually running. He still has pretty good approval ratings even so. Although it's interesting that the religious right seem to condemn Hillary for sticking with the man, it also condemns ...
Actually, picking the worst possible photograph of someone you don't particularly like to be included an article about that person is a long and honourable tradition. I just think they probably could have found a worse one to be honest.
Verso books has a free e-book on Corbyn and the Labour Party in case anyone is interested.
I once wrote to the Herald and offered to do his job at half the price, and still offend just as many people. Now in theory if neoliberal economics was correct, they would have jumped at the chance. But no.:)
I'm not going to get my knickers in a twist about it, as far as I'm concerned anyone who stands on a platform of family values and then (allegedly) betrays family values is fair game. And I admit to loving it when RWNJ'S eat each other in public. Can you ...
Ah - Elizabeth Warren. I want to have her babies.
And none of these pricks who have managed to fuck over the world in the last 20 or 30 years will so much as blush. There won't be any apologies for the people whose lives they ruined, and they will continue to be shoulder tapped for top jobs. Just goes to ...
If the fishermen is in an area he knows, then he knows the currents and the rest of it may be. But usually anyone can tell a land bird from a seabird, and even I know what land smells like. I know that there are other forms of knowledge, but I think you're...
Don't be silly. If that professor is an astronomer he will probably be able to navigate better than the illiterate fisher. And yet I wouldn't want to see the illiterate guy in charge of the nuclear plant.
No, I was mostly referring to science reporters. Or such of them as is left after the general carnage that new services have been subjected to in the last 10 years or so. And no, it is never better to listen to the knowledge of past generations until ...
Here's the thing. Science is uncertain. Scientists know this. As Dara O Briain put it "science knows it doesn't know everything, otherwise it'd stop." But somewhere between the scientists and the public is someone who translates scientific knowledge as if ...
"In the meantime, until we get some real answers, I think the government should immediately break off all contact with NZ rugby and suspend all funding to the game and divert the money to Women’s Refuge instead. John Key should apologise for publicly ...
Funny, well not so funny actually – the only stories you see in the Guardian about New Zealand are about child poverty and our fantastic Auckland housing investment market.
Funny, my son has just taken a boring repetitive job, simply because it is the only one he could find. As have a number of his friends. So perhaps you could keep your stereotypical bullshit to yourself?
I think this was said about Ronald Reagan, but it does apply to Key as well. "You can wade through his deepest thoughts and not get your ankles wet."
I remember a veteran of the 1951 waterfront dispute a few years ago saying that the teacher unions were the most effective in the country. I would dispute that, because I think the police union is by far the most effective, but teachers are good enough to ...
People have been shot in America because rednecks are too dumb to know the difference between a Sikh and an Muslim. Not that it'd be okay to shoot a Muslim mind.
Well, we certainly not just importing in areas where we have skills shortages. We are definitely importing labour in areas where bosses don't want to pay higher wages, particularly farming. And that's probably because we export most of the farm produce and...
I used to be a historian. I spent some years of my life looking at old documents and newspapers and the like. Middle New Zealand has pretty well always been racist. As has top New Zealand and bottom New Zealand, but maybe not quite to the same extent.
The shame lies partly on the fact that I had to read it in the bloody Guardian. Why isn't it splashed all over the front pages of our newspapers? Why isn't that arse on seven sharp whose name I can never remember probably because I think he's an arse, ...
She makes my head explode. She promotes homeopathy, and is very iffy on vaccination.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMvMb90hem8 False balance. I hope.
Whatever we do, we can't keep building houses on decent farmland. Not considering that's one of our main export earners. There's got to be a better way :-).
Voter fury is spreading with good damned reason. Working class people find it difficult to define anyone to vote for who has their interests at heart. The US situation is complicated by religion and guns, but even so people are voting for demagogues ...
Clinton had the chance to choose somebody for a VP who not only knows stuff, but would have shown that she wasn't in the pockets of the banksters. Elizabeth Warren. She blew it. Now she is safe she is returning to the natural leanings.
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