We Still Haven’t Found What We’re Looking For (With apologies to U2)
We studied the dialectic Read the whole of ‘Capital’ So we could follow you So we could follow you …
Author: Chris Trotter
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Mike Hosking “De-Platforms” The PM
THE STAND-OFF between Newstalk-ZB’s star host, Mike Hosking, and the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, continues. Yesterday morning’s (7/4/21) encounter, the first since the PM discontinued her weekly interview with Newstalk’s morning host, was said to be the usual battle of wills. According to Hosking, it will also be the last.
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Red, Red Whines. (With Apologies To Neil Diamond and UB40)
Red, red whines. That’s all you’ll hear. Not like those glory days, When there were cheers. Red, red whines….
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New Zealand, The Way THEY Deserve It!
The National Party’s only real hope of shattering the fast-setting concrete of Labour’s electoral hegemony is to take to it with the jackhammer of right-wing populism.
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Hiding In Plain Sight
Our far-right terrorists have always hidden in plain sight.
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Why We (Don’t) Fight
LIKE THE CELEBRATED DOG that didn’t bark, the New Zealand Left is proving itself a poor protector of the exploited.
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Her House (With apologies to Crosby, Stills and Nash.)
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In Harm’s Way.
WHAT IS “HARM”? On how this word is defined will turn a number of critical political debates.
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Messages Received: Mark McGowan’s Landslide in WA Makes Jacinda’s Win Look Modest.
When the Coronavirus is finally defeated, however, Jacinda will need to find new evils to vanquish, and with an equal measure of success, or she, too, will pay the inevitable electoral price of failure.
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Voting Without Fear, With Open Eyes.
IT’S ONE OF THOSE STORIES that illustrates vividly the robust working-class culture of the trade union movement that was.