Author: Chris Trotter

Saint Ashley has had his angel’s wings ripped bloodily from his back. Unfair? Of course it’s unfair! But that’s the whole nature of the political game, isn’t it?

The events of the past few days: the appalling failure of our neoliberalised state sector to keep our borders secure from the threat of the Covis-19 virus; ought to produce the same reaction from its defenders as a person who, having jumped off a roof, mysteriously finds himself failing to float gently to the ground.

MUCH WILL BE WRITTEN about Heather Simpson’s plans for the New Zealand health system.

Never was the old saying more true: “Now is the time for every good person to come to the aid of the party.” Especially those with democratic socialist ideas!

WHY IS AUSTRALIA so keen to bring the finance ministers of the “Five Eyes” together? Since when did the intelligence…

IF THE GREENS are to survive 19 September, they’ll need to draw inspiration from – of all people – the Nazis.

THE FRAGILITY of democracy’s promise is becoming clearer with every day that passes.

LOOK HARD at this image. Think about what it depicts. Ask yourself how one human-being could behave so brutally when so many eye-witnesses – and very soon millions of people online around the world – were there to watch him do it. Then ask yourself why he didn’t care.

It is debateable whether Muller and his advisers understand the danger they and the National Party are in.