The manner in which middle class identity politics has eclipsed the class based left as the movements dominant ideology has created all sorts of intellectual paradoxes.
Aucklanders weaponised their apathy because the Supercity democracy is a farce, a grotesque masquerade of democratic representation to trick people into participating so that it has the pretence of legitimacy, and Aucklanders, stuck in their gridlock see how hollow the promises of infrastructure investment really are.
It’s a harsh lesson for Labour that allegations in the age of social media trump actual guilt or innocence but as insane as that is, that’s where we are now.
Even at the height of accusing Jacinda of covering up a sexual assault, only 2.5% more liked Simon Bridges. When you can’t win any more favour off the person being accused of covering up a sex crime, you really do need to ask some serious questions.
There needs to be a wholesale re-investment into Local Government so that instead of being a faux democratic choice, citizens actually feel like their vote means something rather than an act masquerading as democracy for the illusion of legitimacy.
Goff limps home to victory in an election that barely a third of the City has bothered to vote for and will preside over a divided Council. Who are the winners and who are the losers in Auckland Mayoralty 2019?
Great news, because this segment has become so stupidly popular on Magic Talk radio, from next week it’s being extended from 30minutes to a full hour! That’s 60minutes of cutting political commentary from 3 white heteronormative cis males that you can’t get anywhere else, except almost every where else.
The neoliberal welfare state in New Zealand is designed to be as punitive as possible so as to frighten the beneficiary from even daring to ask for help in the first place.
Fuck the rugby! This typhoon and its unprecedented speed of intensification is the story here not a bloody sports game!
We all agreed post 9-11 to allow our Governments to ramp up powers to protect us from a terrorist attack of that magnitude, but who has the State actually been going after since 9-11?