Author: Chris Trotter

THE DECISION BY STUFF to publish an all-purpose mea culpa for its racism towards Maori will be regretted.

Yearning and yearning for a comforting liar

The fact is that New Zealand has a parliament – and a government – drawn overwhelmingly from the Professional-Managerial Class (PMC). The perils of this social monoculture should be obvious. It can only raise a formidable barrier to understanding – and hence addressing – the needs of those living in the bottom half of New Zealand society.

ABOUT THE ONLY thing the National Party has got going for it at the moment is the Labour Party.

Socialism doesn’t grow out of thin air: it emerges from an infrastructure in which collectivism – not individualism – has been encoded in institutions’ standard operating procedures.

Let’s do this

Let’s keep moving

Given the Minister’s evident uninterest in the classic Reithian principles of public broadcasting – i.e. to educate, elevate and entertain the people – any review of Faafoi’s motivations for rolling-up TVNZ and RNZ into a single, state-owned broadcasting entity, leaves one fearing the worst.

THE THIRD AMERICAN REVOLUTION has been postponed, but it has not been cancelled.

OH, THE IRONY! The NZ Supreme Court has further cleared the path for Kim Dotcom’s extradition on the very same day Joe Biden is predicted to become the 46th President-elect of the United States.