Crusaders decision as good as it gets
I’m guessing that the vast amount of Crusader fans and Rugby Management had no idea whatsoever the historic symbolism of the actual crusaders.
Martyn Bradbury
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This deadlock we’ve reached in the Polls is the truth of who we are – we are a nation in desperate need of an argument
I don’t think these Poll results are an anomaly, the different methodologies reflect the growing tribalism and disconnection of modern democracy.
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Latest Cannabis Poll shows a debate slipping away and Hosking goes full Fox News on Chloe Swarbrick
If you pick a fight with a dirty fighter, you don’t turn up to box Queensberry Rules.
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You can’t declare a climate crisis without declaring a crisis of neoliberal capitalism
A climate crisis has been announced at Auckland Council and I suppose that’s good.
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Yay! Mission Accomplished! We won in Iraq and Afghanistan!
We can’t evaluate our role in this war crime of an invasion because we are too close to it and don’t want to sully the engagement, but history will judge us as merely a poodle of deeply flawed US foreign policy, the involvement of which made our soldiers commit war crimes.
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Thoughts on a month of the Herald paywall and John Campbell on Breakfast
I don’t want to go on and on and on about how wonderful Breakfast on TVNZ has become since John Campbell joined because that seems terribly unfair to Jack Tame, but John is such an incredible broadcaster and journalist that he actually lifts every boat.
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Chris Trotter visits Fortress Aotearoa and the $20b military spend up
For too long we have allowed corporate interests and political spinelessness to squander time that could have been spent finding solutions. The time is over. We only have decades now.
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Cock-up or Conspiracy? If GCSB told Government on Tuesday night Treasury hack was false, why was Makhlouf allowed to front Breakfast news on Wednesday morning?
So the timeline over the Treasury hack/leak has been clarified. But there’s still an enormous question hanging over all this.
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Waatea News Column: Our damaged, racist Prison Industry is the legacy of hate and spite as social policy
32 years after the Roper Report told us that our Prison system wasn’t working by jailing and punishing too many, we get another Justice Advisory report once again highlighting our debased prison system as deeply damaging, deeply racist and deeply counter productive.
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Latest budget hack/leak revelations demand answers & the hypocrisy of both the NZ Left & NZ Right
The tribalism isn’t new, the hypocrisy isn’t either (we saw it play out with the free speech debate last year between Chelsea Manning & Southern & Moluneux) but what is illuminating is the depth with which the entrenchment has become.