Trump is either remarkably ignorant of the geopolitics here or he is nakedly corrupt and is getting some type of unseen quid pro quo out of Erdoğan.
Or both.
It’s funny when Labour manage a surplus it’s the greatest crime against working people ever committed, yet when National get a surplus. it’s a strong economy that is delivering…
A public university and a public agency, two symptoms within our public service of the same disease.
National has promised a spiteful range of draconian measures against beneficiaries that have nothing whatsoever to do with helping those on the benefit and everything to do with dog whistling to National’s reactionary base.
Cough, as TDB pointed out in our How Stuart Nash wins National the 2020 election blog.
Gang numbers are up.
Meth prices are down.
What the hell happened and when does this political time bomb go off?
Get used to the massive disruption Extinction Rebellion Aotearoa caused Wellington today, because it’s only going to get worse.
Let’s put aside the fact that Oranga Tamariki is a brown washed state agency powered by white saviour delusions using neoliberal settings to argue immediate intervention to save the State money downstream.
Simon Bridges has given us a glimpse of what National will lead with into the 2020 election. It’s right wing economic mythology, mixed with demonisation of those on welfare combined with tough on crime Police state bullshit.
I’m sorry this has taken so long to write but I’ve just stopped laughing. Early last month, Boss Womble at the Ministry of Public Wombles, Peter Hughes, wrote this hilarious column…
The problem with never healing past injustices between the indigenous and the coloniser is that when history knocks at the door of our collective national identity, instead of a celebration of nationhood, the past injustices erupt with the awkward emotional intensity of an abused child announcing past abuses at the family Christmas dinner table.