The compensation offered to Pora for locking him up for a crime he did not commit is pathetic because it doesn’t focus on the salient point which has been ignored throughout most of his case – the cops framed him!
The hypocrisy aside – the ultimate danger of making this a culture war is that it convinces us that Muslims are somehow incompatible with our modern society and thus the only response is eradication. That is an incredibly dangerous mindset
The news that our Government will only increase our pitiful 750 refugees per year by a mere 250 to 1000 is an insult to their humanity and ours.
Mate, you can’t just not visit the Marae up and down the country who are opening their doors to let the homeless live there. They are doing the job you are so badly mishandling, they are actually housing the homeless, while all you can do is make more homeless and build tax havens.
The selection of a gay nightclub in Orlando is an assault on the very freedoms a liberal progressive modern society strives for. It angers in a unique way, the premeditated sophistication to understand how such an attack would resonate within the culture.
The Maori Party need to become a Party of Government rather than a Party in Government. They need to be prepared to sit at every Parliament if they wish to be effective. The speed of the change in internal polling post the Memorandum of Understanding however puts the Maori Party in a difficult position.
I don’t hate Max and Stephanie Key because they are spoilt rich brats, I hate the privilege they represent. The vacancy of their existence and the manner in which they garnish success for themselves is a cultural vanity virus that should be avoided rather than celebrated.
Paula’s meltdown is the fault of National’s cruel and farcical social housing privatisation agenda. She’s going to take the fall for Bill English’s idealogical experiment and she’s too dumb to get yet that she’s the patsy. The solo Westie mum from struggle street whose own back story gives her the right to burn the entire Welfare State down in the name of ‘can-do’ tyranny.
The problem for Clinton is that Bernie Sander supporters see her as a prime example of everything that is wrong in American politics, not a solution to it.
The impact of the Memorandum of Understanding has triggered something deep in the electorate if the latest internal polling is anything to go by.