Author: Chris Trotter

THERE WAS A TIME when property developers were very definitely the bad guys. Back in the 1980s, especially, when they…

IF YOU WANT TO KNOW why Labour leaves the most disadvantaged New Zealanders to rot in motels – ask the…

I SPOTTED HER at one hundred metres. Average height, average build, entirely nondescript: the sort of person you would pass…

AUTHOR’S NOTE: I came across this column quite by accident while searching for information on another matter altogether. It was…

GERMAN CAPITALISM adapted itself to Nazi rule with a minimum of fuss and bother. This is hardly surprising, since Adolf…

THE ORIGINAL ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN for Nanaia Mahuta’s “Three Waters” project was surprisingly honest. Not in terms of the information it…

STEPHEN MINTO’S POST throws into sharp relief the utter collapse of ideological credibility within the New Zealand Greens. That the…

THERE’S A STORY I HEARD about Nikita Khrushchev and his famous speech to the Twentieth Party Congress in February 1956….

THE SEVENTIES had come to an end with Western Leftism in a thoroughly confused state. Actually Existing Socialism still held…

GAURAV SHARMA has clearly had enough of parliamentary life. Equally clearly, he is not suited to it. Nevertheless, he has…