Author: Chris Trotter

Slap in a fresh clip, comrades. We have a fight on our hands.

WHO WILL EMERGE from Friday’s emergency meeting of National caucus as the party’s No.1 and No. 2?

TO SAY the Left’s reaction to Grant Robertson’s “Recovery Budget” has been mixed would be a considerable understatement.

THIS WAS THE DAY my old comrades Bruce Jesson and Gerry Hill never got to see.

Waiting until 19 September to go to the polls, while constitutionally admirable, invites political disaster.

IT WAS THE LARGEST CROWD I had ever addressed – and it booed me.

SIMON BRIDGES and his supporters (witting and unwitting) aren’t quite chanting “Lock her up!” Not yet anyway. But they’re headed in that general direction.

ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND: that’s the number of jobs likely to be lost as New Zealand’s tourist industry collapses.

HOW SHOULD NEW ZEALAND make its way out of the Covid-19 crisis? More and more powerful and influential players are lining-up to answer that question. At stake is considerably more than the nation’s physical and economic health.

WHY IS IT, that of all the party leaders only Winston Peters fully understands the economic ramifications of the Covid-19 Pandemic? Perhaps it’s his age. That might sound snarky, but it isn’t. None of the other party leaders are old enough to possess a solid mental picture of what New Zealand was like before the Neoliberal Revolution of 1984-1993.