…the pendulum of worker rights can’t only be fought and won when Labour are in power, they must be fought while the Right is in power as well or else a progressive Government is simply lumped with trying to fix everything all at once.
Kirton had to go, because the way this was handled ended up making the Green Party strategy team look competent.
Liberals inside America become spastic with rage over Trump’s vile racism, sexism & abuse – but those who live outside of America beneath the shadow of its corporate war machine reality know Trump is the naked face of the real United States of Violence.
People get that denying Sarah Huckabee Sanders service at a restaurant for personal convictions is exactly the same as refusing to make a wedding cake for a gay wedding right?
I appreciate everyone is angry and righteous, but we are all failing here.
While Bridges needs calling out, I don’t think woke twitter has the nuance to do that without creating more support for Simon.
If your only defence for Trump is that this photo didn’t result in the parent being separated from the crying child, then your need to not be offended by this cruelty has overtaken basic decency – it’s not a ‘fake’ photo, your offence is fake!
If we can admit Housing NZ meth policy was an abortion, why can’t we also check the neoliberal welfare agencies other sacred cows like inane WINZ Office security?
We should not be making public holidays free market, we should see them as the nation building exercise and shared cultural values they establish for us.
The Right are so angry at how Hager has extinguished their moral high ground they don’t even have the decency to acknowledge Hager’s importance and service to journalism, preferring to claim hypocrisy because Hager did his law protected duty.
Poor Andrew Little is having to get to grips with reforming our broken corrections industry and part of that means confronting the madness of the Sensible Sentencing Trust.