Chris Trotter

“If that many people suffered, and so many people knew they were suffering, then why wasn’t it stopped?”

THERE’S A CURIOUS disconnect between the Left’s support for the Muslim community and its deep-seated mistrust of the security services.

THERE’S SOMETHING a bit creepy about the Royal Commission’s report into the Christchurch attacks.

THE QUESTION to be answered, one way or the other, before 2023 is pretty simple: Can Labour serve two masters?

THERE IS SOMETHING quite seriously out-of-kilter with the universe when I find myself agreeing with Richard Prebble.

THE DECISION BY STUFF to publish an all-purpose mea culpa for its racism towards Maori will be regretted.

Yearning and yearning for a comforting liar

The fact is that New Zealand has a parliament – and a government – drawn overwhelmingly from the Professional-Managerial Class (PMC). The perils of this social monoculture should be obvious. It can only raise a formidable barrier to understanding – and hence addressing – the needs of those living in the bottom half of New Zealand society.

ABOUT THE ONLY thing the National Party has got going for it at the moment is the Labour Party.

Socialism doesn’t grow out of thin air: it emerges from an infrastructure in which collectivism – not individualism – has been encoded in institutions’ standard operating procedures.