The Properties Of Tino Rangatiratanga – On Judith Collins’ Convention Speech
I took a brief look through Judith Collins’ speech to the New Zealand National Party’s northern convention today and uh … “Article…
Curwen Rolinson
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Why You’re Being Told To Believe We’ve Just Sold Out To China
This whole thing about “JACINDA / LABOUR ARE CRASHING NEW ZEALAND OUT OF THE FIVE EYES BECAUSE THEY’RE SECRETLY IN LEAGUE WITH THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA – OR WISHING TO BE” meme is ridiculous.
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On Cultural Communication Amidst The Current Covid Cluster Management
I have seen a few comments about the place concerning Case M etc. – asking if maybe the Government didn’t do enough to communicate with the person (and family) in question in culturally relevant ways or a language he could understand.
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A Failure At The Border – What One Returnee’s Worrisome Experience Reveals About What’s Actually Going On In Isolation
What we’re dealing with here, with this story, is a microcosm of that. Some decision-making and some decision-makers at a managed isolation facility that have decided that “they are the law”, and so they’ll run the place as they see fit without regard for actual proper practice (let alone legality) in the matter. It’s not hard to see why this is dangerous – it already patently has been.
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On Damien Grant On Damien Grant On Covid-19, Hindsight, And Playing Russian Roulette With A Semi-Automatic Aimed At One’s Own Foot
Like a diminishing quotient of New Zealanders, I have the occasional expectation of finding something enthusing and enlightening in my Sunday newspaper. I also expect there is Damien Grant.
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On National’s Unsafe Attitude Towards Drug Testing
Earlier this week, the Government announced that it was going to pick up one of the loose threads from the previous Parliamentary term – and pass measures to allow the testing of drugs at music festivals and the like, so as to reduce the risk of … well, serious harm occurring.
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Why An Iranian Nuclear Scientist Was Really Just Assassinated
By now, news of the assassination of the project-head of Iran’s nuclear weapons effort, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, has gone around the world. What is less clear, however, is the identity of the perpetrators – and why they would undertake such a move.
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In Riposte To A Journalist’s Outrage At Sanskrit Being Uttered In Our Nation’s Parliamen
Late yesterday evening, I noticed something strange on Twitter. ‘Sanskrit’ was trending – in New Zealand. Finding this rather unexpected,…
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On Rational Economic Decision-Making In The Age Of Covid-19 Following Our Latest Community Transmission
Earlier this week, we had ourselves some chilling news. A new case of Covid-19 community transmission – without a clear link to a quarantine or isolation facility. Worse, it turned out that the worker in question had gone to work whilst infectious.
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Trump’s Pinochet Moment ?
Something which occurred to me in light of the American Presidential electoral results … is that Trump is having a Pinochet moment.