Sitting Next To Cousin Simon
EVERY FAMILY HAS ONE. You must know the sort. One of the Baby Boom generation, who desperately wishes he wasn’t….
Chris Trotter
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Onward Luxon’s Soldiers
(Sung to the tune of Onward Christian Soldiers)
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MUST READ: The Fellowship Of The Upper Room
Why not admit frankly to his membership of the Upper Room? What is it about this Fellowship that prompts Luxon and his advisers to make as little of it as possible? The answer lies in the information unearthed by the sort of journalists who know where to go looking on the Internet for linkages between evangelical Christian fellowships and ambitious right-wing politicians.
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Judith’s Last Stand
WHAT JUST HAPPENED? Seriously. What on earth possessed Judith Collins to move against Simon Bridges so maladroitly, and with so little prospect of success? It’s baffling.
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Labour’s Eyes Wide Shut To “Unruly Tenants”.
HOW LONG before Labour’s senior ministers realise how much damage Kāinga Ora is doing to their Government?
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Dissing The Farmers
THERE’S NO DISPUTING that Neale Jones is very good at what he does.
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Delta Rocks Gibraltar: Lessons to be learned from Covid-19’s global resurgence
WHAT ARE WE TO MAKE of what Delta is doing in Gibraltar?
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Hell To Pay – The alarming similarities between the Anti-Vaccination Movement and the creators of the Jim Crow South.
OVER THE LAST FEW WEEKS I’ve been racking my brains over why the anti-vaccination movement feels so very, very creepy. I’ve sought reassurance in Jess Berentson-Shaw’s gentle enjoinders to engage empathically and constructively with the vaccine resistant, but without success.
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“Yesterday’s Controversy” – Labour Better Hope So!
ANDREA VANCE’S CLAIM that: “Beyond 2022’s local government elections, Three Waters will be yesterday’s controversy”, is a bold one. Had…
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MUST READ: Behold, The Losing-class
MANY NEW ZEALANDERS recoiled with shock and disbelief at Tuesday’s (9/11/21) Anti-Government protest outside Parliament. That all manner of crazy stuff could be found on social media was well understood, but to see that online extremism suddenly brought to life on the streets of the capital city was deeply disturbing. That such a frightening combination of ignorance and anger was festering away inside the body politic came as a profound shock to “mainstream” New Zealand.