Chris Trotter

Let’s do this

Let’s keep moving

Given the Minister’s evident uninterest in the classic Reithian principles of public broadcasting – i.e. to educate, elevate and entertain the people – any review of Faafoi’s motivations for rolling-up TVNZ and RNZ into a single, state-owned broadcasting entity, leaves one fearing the worst.

THE THIRD AMERICAN REVOLUTION has been postponed, but it has not been cancelled.

OH, THE IRONY! The NZ Supreme Court has further cleared the path for Kim Dotcom’s extradition on the very same day Joe Biden is predicted to become the 46th President-elect of the United States.

JACINDA ARDERN has constructed a Curate’s Egg* Cabinet: parts of it are excellent.

CONSERVATIVE NEW ZEALANDERS are up for grabs.

“A LEAP OF FAITH”, that’s what Greens co-leader Marama Davidson is said to have scribbled on her note-pad. She’s quite…

THE DAILY BLOG’S Editor, Martyn (Bomber) Bradbury, is characterising the decisive 2020 election result as the Twilight of Boomer Power.

THE TRUE MEASURE of Neoliberalism’s victory is the extent to which the Left now expects someone else to make the revolution.