ACCORDING TO PEOPLE “in the know”, Labour is awash with more cash than its seen in a very long time. Apparently, Jacinda Ardern’s handling of the Covid-19 crisis didn’t just net her party an unprecedented number of votes, it brought in tons of funds. While this happy situation endures, Labour is said to be polling and focus-grouping like there’s no tomorrow. The PM doesn’t just have her finger on the pulse of the nation, she’s reading its ECGs.
And the sign said, “The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls And tenement halls” ─ Paul…
Only when the drum-beat of right-wing populism starts to shake New Zealand’s windows and rattle its walls, will wokeism’s fondness for silencing its enemies finally begin to make a kind of desperate sense.
IN THE COMING YEAR New Zealand politics will be driven by two inter-related forces: brown poverty and white guilt. Jacinda…
THERE ARE SIGNS and there are portents – if you know how to read them. Fifteen years ago it was…
“If that many people suffered, and so many people knew they were suffering, then why wasn’t it stopped?”
THERE’S A CURIOUS disconnect between the Left’s support for the Muslim community and its deep-seated mistrust of the security services.
THERE’S SOMETHING a bit creepy about the Royal Commission’s report into the Christchurch attacks.
THE QUESTION to be answered, one way or the other, before 2023 is pretty simple: Can Labour serve two masters?
THERE IS SOMETHING quite seriously out-of-kilter with the universe when I find myself agreeing with Richard Prebble.