Idiot Windbag: Mike Hosking On Democracy
What did Hosking say? Well, he was giving us the benefit of his deep insight and wisdom concerning the recent local government elections. This is what he said:
Chris Trotter
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Clever Strategy vs Desperate Tactics: Hillary Clinton allows Donald Trump to survive the Second Presidential Debate
THE SECOND US PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE demonstrated brilliantly the difference between strategy and tactics. Hillary Clinton’s performance was all about the political needs of the next 30 days. Donald Trump was fighting for his life.
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The Masculine Mystique: The True Nature Of Aaron Smith’s Transgression
New Zealand’s problems with masculinity are deeply embedded in its social and cultural history. New Zealand men are notorious for being excessively repressed and emotionally unavailable: tightly-wound machines with an aversion to mechanics.
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Sins of Omission: Why Phil Twyford’s Most Recent Post Fails To Convince
“Philip Stoner Twyford, you are charged with hoodwinking the New Zealand electorate. You are not obliged to say anything (and, quite frankly, if this is best you can manage, you’d do better to keep your mouth shut) but your failure to acknowledge, when posting, the achievements of the second and third Labour governments, and your refusal to condemn the betrayals of the fourth, will certainly harm your defence in the High Court of History.”
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Sleepy Hobbits? Or, Something Worse?
“This country wants waking up and setting to rights … and Sharkey’s going to do it; and make it hard, if you drive him to it. You need a bigger Boss. And you’ll get one before the year is out if there’s any more trouble. Then you’ll learn a thing or two, you little rat folk.”
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Hobson’s Pledge: Dangerous Message, Harmless Messenger
THE FIRST THING to say about “Hobson’s Pledge” is that its message will resonate with hundreds-of-thousands of Pakeha New Zealanders. The second thing is that the organisation is likely to be both well-funded and well-resourced.
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The War Goes On: With Corbyn’s re-election, the class-struggle in Labour will intensify
JEREMY CORBYN’S RE-ELECTION should signal an outbreak of peace and unity in the British Labour Party. Especially given his support among Labour members has gone up, not down, since he was first elected in September 2015. Not a chance. His enemies in Labour’s parliamentary caucus simply will not relent. The war of attrition will go on until Corbyn is no longer leader. Why?
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From Good Guys To Fall Guys: The Spinoff and Generation Zero fail to endorse Mike Lee
UP UNTIL TUESDAY of last week I’d always thought of The Spinoff and Generation Zero as the good guys. A wee bit hipsterish perhaps, in the case of the former; a little hard to distinguish from the Green Party in the latter – but these were minor quibbles. Overall, both organisations came across as fresh, creative, and definitely on the side of the progressive angels.
Not anymore.
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New Green MP Barry Coates: The TPPA campaign – It ain’t over
The TPPA ‘comes into force’ (ie. starts) when countries accounting for 85% of the combined GNP of TPPA countries ratify it. That is extremely unlikely to happen before the next New Zealand election in 2017. So a future coalition government could withdraw our ratification of the TPPA before it starts.
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“Better Now Than Later!” – Nato Deploys 4,000 Additional Troops To Eastern Europe
The decision to deploy an additional 4,000 troops to Russia’s eastern borders has been undertaken in an attempt to both intimidate and deter Putin from contemplating a lightning-fast repossession of the former Soviet republics of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.