On Matthew Hooton Against Winston Against China
There was something odd about Matthew Hooton’s NZ Herald piece this morning castigating Winston for his remarks about the People’s Republic of China.
Curwen Rolinson
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On National On Labour On Human Rights In (A) Crisis
So let me get this straight. The National Party is objecting to the Government’s recent Public Health Response bill … because of its deeply held stances around the protection of human rights, opposition to warrantless searches, and scrupulously consistent abject horror at the concept of abrogation (or expedition) of democracy.
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On The Curious Un-Death Of Kim Jong Un – Schrodinger’s Dictator
So for the past 48 hours, I’ve witnessed a lot of excited chatter about the alleged incapacitation of Kim Jong Un.
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Winston Wronged And HDPA Right – The Unexploded Truth Of The Pension Payment Settling Of Accounts
So earlier this week, two things happened. Winston got his lawsuit result back … and the National Party started demanding that he pay for it.
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On The Escalating Media Demands For A Covid-19 ‘Wartime’ Coalition With National
I must confess myself in possession of a certain mounting disquiet at the escalating drum-beat echoing through our political commentariat of late.
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It’s Almost Like The Neoliberals Don’t WANT To Survive The Crisis – On Brazen Talk Of “Acceptable Losses” To Re-Grease Wheels Of Economy
There is a quotation often attributed to Lenin, in which it is said that when it comes time to hang the capitalists – they will fall over each other to attempt to sell their executioners the rope.
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Trump’s Covid-19 Programme: Crisis Response, Turning Tables, and Corona-tion
One of the curious concepts in a crisis is the way in which the ‘old rules’ don’t so much not apply, as seem actively turned upon their head.
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Bridges’ Response To Government Corona Package Case Of Ideological Shiver Looking For Spine To Run Up
I must say, I’m a little surprised at Simon Bridges’ response to the Government’s Covid-19 package.
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“Are you OK, Boomer?” Countering The Chronophobic Malaise That’s Grown Up Around Covid-19
I’ve been pretty disquieted about some of the rhetoric that’s been going around the place along with Covid-19. Yes, we know that the health impacts are disproportionately severe for people over sixty. Yes, we know that in many Anglosphere countries, there is an occasionally pretty understandable annoyance on the part of younger people against the regrettably not-always-that-imaginary stereotype of Der Boomer.
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On Trump’s Nixonian “Peace With Honour” In Afghanistan
So over the past few days in Afghanistan, there’ve been more than six dozen Taliban attacks and the US has resumed airstrikes against them. Yet I seem to keep running across people hailing Trump as some kind of visionary diplomatic savant (as opposed to the *other* kind of savant) who’s scored some kind of history-diverting coup in securing a sort of ‘peace with honour’ deal in Afghanistan.