Politics beyond the veil
This is the lousy state of Māori politics. The highest value and the only end is sitting “at the table of government”.
Morgan Godfery
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The mechanics of Cunliffe’s conference remarks
Americans call these deictic expressions. The effect is that DC is speaking on behalf of the audience, not to it. The technique is used to build a relationship with the audience. But it also goes further: DC is speaking as if everything he says is issued by “us”, the people. The heavy use of inclusive language opens the speech to the audience and lets them impose their own interpretations on it.
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Will Labour Take The Third Way?
Third way social democracy was never an ideology of or for the left. It was an experiment. Can Labour afford to experiment with Grant Robertson?