All of Us, All of Us.
THE CLAIM that the push for co-governance comes not from “ordinary” but “elite” Māori continues to gain ground. Yet another…
Chris Trotter
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Checking The Left: The Dreadful Logic Of Fascism.
THERE IS A DREADFUL LOGIC to the growth of fascism. To begin with, it seldom emerges in circumstances of left-wing…
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Nobody To Shoot
THERE’S A SCENE in John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath” where an embattled dust-bowl sharecropper struggles to defend his land….
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The Revolution Has Begun
IF NEW ZEALAND’S educational curriculum was dedicated to condemning capitalism and uplifting the working class, would that signal a revolution?…
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F…ing Things Up.
TWO DAYS AGO, two brothers, Israeli settlers on the occupied West Bank of the River Jordan were murdered by Palestinian…
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Patriarchy, Identity Politics and The Will To Power.
SIGMUND FREUD attributed the many maladies of human existence to traumatic sexual experiences in early life. Alfred Adler (1870-1937) attributed…
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Adapting To Climate Change.
IT IS ONLY SLOWLY DAWNING on climate change activists that the fight against global warming is lost. Locally, Cyclone Gabrielle…
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The Privatisation Two-Step: Is Three Waters A Masterpiece Of Misdirection?
IF CABINET FAILS to scrap Three Waters and start again, New Zealand may very quickly come to resemble Bolivia. Not…
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A Modest Exercise in Arithmetic.
THE DAILY BLOG’S EDITOR, appears convinced that there exists in New Zealand a great silent majority of Treaty revisionists. He…
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Blowing Off The Froth: Why Chris Hipkins Must Ditch Three Waters.
THERE’S FROTH, AND THERE’S BEER. What we see happening on the Waitangi Treaty Grounds every 6 February, not to mention…