The Choice: Giving Up, Or Keeping Hope Alive? The neoliberal spin at The Spinoff
DECIDING whether Bernard Hickey or Megan Woods deserves a big fat raspberry is the task I’ve set myself. To understand…
Author: Chris Trotter
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Of Commoners And Kings: Steve Bannon’s New Traditionalism
CONSERVATIVE POLITICS in New Zealand is running out of puff.
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Democratic Socialism From The Ground Up? Not In Neale’s Backyard.
IF YOU WANT to understand what’s rotting the Labour Party’s political soul, read Neale Jones’ latest posting on The Spinoff. A really good novelist would struggle to create a more self-characterising narrator than Neale.
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Skating On Thin Ice: Labour’s Support Is Not As Solid As It Looks.
WITH LABOUR polling in the mid-to-high 40s, and the Greens around 10 percent, the Left dominates New Zealand politics. At least, that is what it would like us to believe. In fact, the Left’s current dominance of New Zealand politics is both highly unusual and extremely fragile.
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Who Else Is There? Why the Right Needs Winston Peters.
IF WINSTON PETERS did not exist, the Right would have to invent him – and it can’t.
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MUST READ: No Questions Please – We’re Revolutionaries!
PERHAPS THE MOST ASTONISHING aspect of School Strike For Climate Auckland’s (SSFCA) spectacular self-cancellation was the media’s lack of interest.
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To Speak, Or Not To Speak? – That Is The Question.
WAITANGI DAY is still more than half a year away: still plenty of time for Ngāpuhi to put things “right”.
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Hoping For Divine Intervention.
ROD CARR reminds me of God. Seriously, that beard. From a distance, in poor light, the God of Michelangelo’s Sistine…
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Re-Writing The Rules of the Game: Where Chile is Leading, Can Aotearoa-New Zealand Follow?
THE EYES OF THE LEFT, all around the world, should be on Chile.
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Who Poses the Bigger Threat: The Far Right, Or the Far Left?
EVEN THE HEADLINE is misleading: “How the SIS Missed the Threat of the Far Right”. Marc Dalder’s latest posting on the Newsroom site purports to offer evidence of the Service’s failure to adequately assess the danger posed to New Zealand society by Far Right and White Supremacist groups. In fact, from the documents Dalder relies upon, it is clear that the SIS assessed the threat potential of New Zealand’s right-wing extremists with considerable accuracy.