The Danish Solution: How Repudiating Co-Governance Could Be the Saving Of Labour.
THINK OF DENMARK – go on, think of Denmark. What springs to mind? Lego? The Little Mermaid? Squishy little segments…
Setting the Agenda
Political analysis and commentary shaping the progressive debate in Aotearoa New Zealand, focused on power, policy, and accountability.
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Whaddayaknow?
For the negative impression that seeing so many Daily Blog postings by one writer might create, some wish that Martyn…
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Forget the fans – it’s the sponsors calling the tune on the All Blacks series defeat to Ireland
From All Black fans there is a full range of adjectives being used to describe the series loss to Ireland…
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Another warning from the Financial Times
The Financial Times is one those papers that speaks the plain truth to the bosses. This is from their July…
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“Socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor”
Across Christchurch last night many bottles of champagne would have been uncorked by business leaders, rugby bosses and right-wing councillors…
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John Minto: From Raglan to Palestine – let our voice be heard
During World War I, the New Zealand Government took a big area of land at Raglan from the local Tainui…
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Performative Caring
SKY NEWS AUSTRALIA has reformulated Jacinda Ardern’s championing of “kindness” as “performative caring”. While the network has long displayed a…
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The Strange Case Of The De-Selected Professor
DAVID FISHER’S EXCELLENT ARTICLE in the NZ Herald, “PM’s terrorism, extremism expert Prof Richard Jackson hired then dropped” raises a…
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Lies, Damn Lies, and Propaganda.
“If it bleeds, it leads” is an old newsroom aphorism which acknowledges that the more horrific the story the more…
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The Void
FROM THE SAME box of old papers I wrote about last week comes another set of lyrics. This time for…