Written By: weka - Date published: 11:32 am, September 15th, 2021 - 52 comments
An occasional series
Written By: weka - Date published: 11:17 am, October 4th, 2020 - 79 comments
An occasional series
Written By: weka - Date published: 1:51 pm, July 18th, 2020 - 48 comments
An occasional series
Written By: weka - Date published: 12:07 pm, May 6th, 2020 - 49 comments
An occasional series
Written By: weka - Date published: 10:15 am, April 25th, 2020 - 152 comments
an occasional series.
Written By: weka - Date published: 9:25 am, January 20th, 2020 - 65 comments
an occasional series.
Written By: Matthew Whitehead - Date published: 8:27 am, June 26th, 2018 - 213 comments
In which we discuss a number of quick hits: Trump thinks judges only exist to be bribed, Sarah Huckabee-Sanders can’t get a seat at a restaurant, and whether Godwin’s Law needs to be amended.
Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 4:17 pm, October 28th, 2015 - 37 comments
The reaction to Westpac handing over Nicky Hager’s data to police is still playing out. Rob Hosking observes “a creeping authoritarianism from the current government”.
Written By: Mike Smith - Date published: 10:37 pm, November 11th, 2010 - 13 comments
A fascinating interview on Nine to Noon this morning – Kathryn Ryan with Jonathan Temm, President of the Law Society, on what the Society sees as the government’s disturbing trend to pass laws that threaten the “rule of law” in New Zealand because they cut out scrutiny from parliament, people and the courts. The specifics […]
Written By: Bunji - Date published: 2:52 pm, August 18th, 2010 - 14 comments
So Rodney can’t keep 4 other people on side. The liberal and authoritarian split in Act has had its blood-letting and the authoritarians have won. Where will the neo-liberal idealogues go? And how will Epsom react to this change in philosophy in a year’s time?
Written By: Guest post - Date published: 8:38 am, November 7th, 2009 - 11 comments
The government and the Police are spinning all the new security measures as a national security matter and a crack-down ONLY on the leaders of organised crime, watching how the worst villains spend their ill-gotten gains and preventing them from corrupting police and politicians (snort) etc. Police minister Judith Crusher Collins: “Gang bosses have grown […]
The current rise of populism challenges the way we think about people’s relationship to the economy.We seem to be entering an era of populism, in which leadership in a democracy is based on preferences of the population which do not seem entirely rational nor serving their longer interests. ...
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