Fidel Castro – A Brief Eulogy
I’m really not quite sure what to say about Fidel Castro’s death.
Curwen Rolinson
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Multinationals Not Paying Tax Is A Legal, Fiscal & Ethical Issue – Not Just ‘Bad PR’
I nearly fell out of my chair yesterday evening when Newshub opened an item with a declaration that the Prime Minister was finally talking about multinationals dodging their fair share of Kiwi tax.
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A Sea-Change On Government Attitudes To Protesting
In 1973, NZ PM Norman Kirk sent our frigate, the HMNZS Otago, to the French nuclear testing site of Mururoa Atoll. On board was the Kiwi Cabinet Minister Fraser Coleman. The stated – and, indeed, officially mandated – purpose of those two hundred and forty three men was to put themselves in the path of foreign military activity, on a ship, as a protest action.
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Secessionists, Demonstrationists, and Defenestrationists: The Unchanging Character Of US Responses To Their New Presidents
This Presidential outcome is so singularly sui-generis in sadness and in suicidality that some radical actions are more called for now than they were previously
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Why Clintonistas Desperately Want You To Stop Talking About Bernie
It’s been interesting watching the shift in discourse about Bernie Sanders from some of the local #ImWithHer crowd (and, presumably, those further afield/closer to the action).
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On Dawkins’ “New Athens” Proposal – Unclean, Algal-Green, And Anti-Intellectualism
On Friday, word reached us that the world’s foremost obstreperous atheist, Richard Dawkins, appears to be advocating we open our borders to the world’s “creative intellectuals” in a bid to make New Zealand a ‘new Athens’ for the ‘Trump era’.
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President Trump – Rebirths & Reflections
So it finally happened. American Democracy, dependent upon your relative vantage point and biases, either ‘jumped the shark’, or reached its apotheosis. Possibly both at once.
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Fear And Loathing Of A Democratic Presidency: Where To For The American Left
[Author’s Note: This piece originally appeared as the sixteenth installment of my Sex, Drugs & Electoral Rolls column for Craccum…
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Love Him Or Hate Him – Morgan’s Not Like Other Wealthy Men Bursting Into Politics
Every so often, somebody or something comes along which puts a bit of their weight upon our psephological scales, and…
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Auckland Electoral Post-Mortem Part One: ‘Solids’ And ‘Biddables’
So now that the dust’s started to settle and the excitement’s mostly over (barring one or two personages who’ll be sitting on tenterhooks awaiting the results of special voting), the attention of the Commentariat has sensibly turned to picking over the weekend’s local body electoral result.