Dr Liz Gordon: Our own little Trumpian army
You know who I’m talking about. There is nothing like a pandemic to bring the far right out onto the…
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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Michael Cullen 1945-2021 – He almost lived up to the dream
Michael Cullen taught me History at the University of Otago in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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Blindness of ‘a balanced approach’
First of all, a correction and sincere apology: In my previous blog, I inadvertently referred to Miko Peled’s grandfather, Avraham…
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A failure of Objectivity
Writing this week in his TDB article, “The Failure of the West,” Chris Trotter asserted that, whatever else the ignominious…
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Of Prophets – True And False
WHAT DO THEY WANT? These motley collections of the angry and the ignorant in whose eyes the Covid-19 Pandemic is…
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Afghanistan: Trump’s Art Of The Deal Inaction?
I’d say this was a conspiracy theory … but evidently, it is quite out in the open. What if ……
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PODCAST: Buchanan and Manning on Afghanistan – Were Intelligence Failures a Prelude to a Taliban Takeover
https://youtu.be/GOWAxGVoND0 A View from Afar: Selwyn Manning and Paul Buchanan present this week’s podcast, A View from Afar, where they…
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The Failure Of The West
Before the Western Left breaks out the Champagne, however, it should pause for a few moments to consider what it has just witnessed in Afghanistan.
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A letter to the Labour Party Conference December 1, 2001 regarding invading Afghanistan
THE WAR AGAINST AFGHANISTAN – Labour Party Conference December 1, 2001
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Dr Liz Gordon: Afghanistan – Twenty years on
The Alliance conference in 2001 marked the beginning of the end for that fine movement. As with all political parties,…