Why It’s Difficult To Take Seriously Shane Jones’ Attempted Indian Burn On Immigration
There’s a few things to be said around Shane Jones’ recent skirmishing with part of the Indian community over immigration changes.
Author: Curwen Rolinson
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Blaming TVNZ For Mediaworks’ Woes A Case Of Ideological Shiver Looking For Spine To Shoot Up
Here’s a few unfortunate patterns. Mediaworks is once again in dire financial straits; and once again, some are attempting to assert that this is because private enterprise just can’t compete with a Government owned … company that also works like private enterprise [i.e. TVNZ].
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What’s Really Going On With New Zealand First, Leaks
Over the past week or two, there’s been quite a bit of buzz about New Zealand First out there in the media.
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On Bridges On Jacinda On Trade Talks With Trump
I gotta say – it’s rather odd seeing Simon Bridges attempt to attack Jacinda Ardern for not attempting to press Donald J. Trump on climate change, at their meeting earlier this week.
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On Winston On Bridges On China On Freedom
I see New Zealand First has put out a press statement which seeks to condemn Simon Bridges for his recent positive interview…
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Why Simon Bridges’ Enthusiasm For The Chinese Communist Party Is Utterly Unsurprising
So in the wake of a recent Newshub piece that quotes National’s Simon Bridges enthusiastically talking up the Chinese Communist Party – not, you know, the People’s Republic of China, but the Communist Party *itself*, various portions of my newsfeed have understandably been understandably just a little surprised and more than a little bemused that Blue is apparently The New Red
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On John Roughan’s Curious Distaste For Journalistic Privilege
Now, I hesitate in the extreme to term The Herald’s John Roughan a “genius”. Yet every time I read one of his more “ideological” columns, that sort of sentiment seems to spring to mind. A sort of more-cynical/paranoid version of the famed ‘Hanlon’s Razor’ – “never attribute to malice, that which can adequately be explained by stupidity”.
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On The Recent Death Of Jeffrey Epstein
On the one hand, attempting to blame every little thing on “The Clintons” and/or some other, further elite conspiracy efforts … as hilarious as it can be, is often overtly ridiculous. On the *other* hand … Jeffrey Epstein somehow managing to kill himself *while on suicide watch* following his previous attempt, allegedly via hanging, suggests that *at minimum* there’s been some almost unbelievable incompetence by his jailers.
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It Is Possible To Be Both Pro Ihumatao AND Not Anti Police
Watching the course of developments around Ihumatao over the past few months, it is hard to escape the sensation that something extraordinary has happened. What would, some decades ago, perhaps have been written off as a “Maori” issue by much of New Zealand – and consequentially, disparaged, denied, and turned into a pit of talkback-radio excoriation – has in fact managed to attain broad support from across the community.
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Tulsi Gabbard Blazes Impressive Trail At First Democratic Primary Debate
It has been said by political minds far more astute than my own [read: pretty much every candidate going into today’s 1st Democratic Primary debate] that a ‘win’ here is securing ‘cut-through’. Standing out from amidst the crowded, twenty-candidate field and managing to reach out through the television-camera’s silvery lense to make that all-important connection with the ordinary American voter on the other side of the screen.