Author: John Minto

The liberal middle class have spent two weeks attacking Chris Luxon as an appalling right winger and telling us how we should be very afraid of a Luxon-led government.

One of the more shameful aspects of our foreign policy is our two-tier approach to human rights abuses.

I’m proud to have known this man and to have stood alongside him on many frontlines. He lived a big life in a small country. Thank you Jimmy.

I asked someone today what they think when they hear the name Judith Collins. Nastiness was the answer and I think this is how she will be remembered, not only by her political opponents in Labour but by a big chunk of her National Party colleagues.

We understand a parliamentary motion on Palestine will be moved in parliament in the next two days!

There is a welcome change of direction in the government announcement yesterday that Aucklanders will be able to leave the city to travel around the country from mid-December by showing they are double vaccinated OR by producing a negative covid test within 72 hours of leaving.

It’s a mixed blessing to see ACT leader David Seymour agreeing with me but he is right to oppose mandatory vaccination for people who are able to show they are free of covid 19.

The death of former South African President F W de Klerk marks the passing of an era.

It’s worrying, but probably inevitable, that yesterday’s protest at parliament should have ended as a fizzer. It was a mishmash of people and organisations focused on a wide variety of concerns re Covid 19 and government decisions.