Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
The last 9 year rule of National has seen a deeply ideological drive to mutilate the state’s ability to raise revenue so that it can consistently amputate their social welfare obligations. This allows the Government to claim they are ‘living within their means’.
It is almost obscene that right wing pundits get to pretend that this was a ‘left wing family friendly’ budget when it was nothing of the sort!
Whose actions deserve rewarding? A rich millionaire whose sense of entitlement allowed him to touch a young woman at work on 10 seperate occasions or the young woman who stood up to him in front of his armed security team and demanded he stop touching her?
4 months out from a General Election and the list of issues that our political class and corporate media are avoiding is just extraordinary…
…responding to cruelty, hate and twisted spiteful inadequacy with compassion, kindness and love will do more to ending this war on terror than any military escalation or civil liberties clamp down ever can.
This vacant optimism merchant banker whose laid back persona struck a chord with middle NZs anti-intellectualism made this country far worse for the poorest and most vulnerable amongst us.
In short, Paris was a complete failure to begin with because it simply did not go anywhere near far enough. Trump pulling out is the least of our concerns.
One of the most corrupt and damaging Politicians from America, Rex Tillerson is coming to New Zealand.
I challenge you to stare the horror of the neoliberal welfare state in the face and recognise it for the abomination that it has become and to demand radical change within our public services.
If Corbyn can do the impossible and pull off one of the great political wins of the 21st Century, he will remind every progressive political Left Party around the planet that an economically populist Left wing agenda can win the people over.