Steady on Stu – the Police and anti-depressants
If we are to expect Police to be able to do their job in the 21st Century, then legitimate care and concern for their mental health must be first step.
Year: 2017
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New Rules on the Global Economy
The government’s attempts to revive the Trade Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) have, as predicted, failed. Instead, the government is now putting its faith in negotiating numerous Free Trade Agreements (FTAs). It’s more of the same, ignoring the lessons from the TPPA debacle.
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Time Capsule near Parliament turns out to be the National Party’s attitude towards abortion
With English as leader National’s slogan goes from ‘A Brighter Future’ to ‘A Darker Tomorrow’.
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Now outrage is building at historic abuse will Labour finally challenge the Public Service?
This rising wave of disgust at our Public Service may give Labour the courage to finally force it to radically reform.
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Trump launching missiles shows how easily emotionally manipulated he is or how Machiavellian he is
There are two reasons Trump decided to go 180 degrees on bis position on Syria, and neither of them are safe.
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RIP Fred Dagg – John Clarke has died 68
Oh no- John Clarke has died – his wit and satire was the best comedy ever to leave NZ.
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Bill English finally gets to be like Trump by attacking a Muslim who can’t fight back
Are we really this simple to allow Bill English to trash the ethical beliefs of Sonny Bill Williams to distract from questions about war crimes committed by his Government?
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Trumpwatch: One minute closer to midnight on the Doomsday Clock
Despite a previous poison gas attack in Ghouta, Syria in 2013 – for which the Assad regime was implicated, but not proven – there is little actual firm evidence that the Syrian government was responsible for the gassing at Khan Sheikhoun on 7 April.
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Why Bill English is wrong to support Trump’s air strike on Syria
The rapidity with which Bill English fell in behind Trump’s unilateral strike on Syria shows how little the NZ government values the UN Security Council, despite just having completed two years on it. New Zealand sidelined the Security Council and supported a US strike contravening the UN Charter. Article 51 of the Charter allows one nation to strike another only in “self-defence”. America wasn’t being attacked by Syria.
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GUEST BLOG: Lois Griffiths – Martin Luther King, We Need You Today!
In April 1967, FIFTY YEARS AGO, Dr Martin Luther King spoke at the Riverside Church in Manhattan, NYC, warning of the moral failure of a country addicted to war.