Guest and sponsored opinion pieces published on The Daily Blog, offering diverse perspectives within clear editorial guidelines.
Unlike much of mainstream media with a penchant to jump from one headline to another, and in the process leave what was a supposedly a critically important issue yesterday; languishing unresolved, I prefer to stick with the knitting – until it’s possible to get some idea of what is being produced.
My intention is simply to ask what I hope are relevant questions so that you are a bit better informed about what these smaller parties believe.
The nationwide shutdown has highlighted a number of anomalies in the way we run our economy . Our tax system is one of them .
Yesterday I spoke with Natasha who has run 2 businesses for over 25 years which the lockdown is killing.
Winston and I seem to have a similar view of: “Where to next and When?”
When it comes to, Rule of Law, being more important than Rule of Police, and my position on social policy: my time on this blog seems to have attracted some support.
While it is good to see that Boris Johnson is out of hospital the irony will surely have occurred to many that he was saved by nurses working at a NHS hospital – the very institution his own party policy has sought to undermine.
Yesterday I spoke with journalist and political commentator Chris Trotter about the things he thinks we need to preserve in our way of life and those we need to change.
NZ is in an unbreakable love hate relationship with China. Like a child we are dependent on China for economic growth. We may be unhappy about a parent that is too dominant and punitive on occasions. But like most children we don’t want to run away because there is no alternative but the cold outside.
While for some New Zealanders being stopped by police from driving their Audi or Mercedes on route to their holiday home is their biggest problem, in South Auckland other New Zealanders are living with 10 people in a 3 bedroom house and wondering how long the supermarket line will be today.