The Warehouse – where everyone gets a virus
As of 11.59 on Thursday, most of New Zealand will go into “lock down”. People will be expected not to travel to work; not to socialise; and to stay home.
I will not be one of those people.
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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Panic buying should not be a surprise to anyone
Many of us are rolling our eyes and tut tutting as women fight in the supermarket aisles over rolls of toilet paper.
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It’s Almost Like The Neoliberals Don’t WANT To Survive The Crisis – On Brazen Talk Of “Acceptable Losses” To Re-Grease Wheels Of Economy
There is a quotation often attributed to Lenin, in which it is said that when it comes time to hang the capitalists – they will fall over each other to attempt to sell their executioners the rope.
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Dr Liz Gordon: Will COVID 19 kill neo-liberalism?
Neo-liberalism is designed upon three main planks – a free market unencumbered by state interference, an assumption of individual rather than collective values and the existence of a free marketplace in which we all operate.
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Shut it down – but we don’t need to restart with the same old shit
It is inevitable as a country that we needed to rapidly move to level three and four in our response to be able to suffocate the spread of the virus.
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Time to rethink everything especially super policy
When share markets crash, it becomes clear that shares are only ever a potential claim on resources. They have to be converted into money before they can command the basics of survival. When the music stops, few want to buy any more. Today’s share market crash reflects not just the bursting of a speculative bubble but also a loss of faith in the viability of the underlying businesses associated with tourism and travel.
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Tragic news today that coronavirus has reached the Gaza Strip – but you can do something to help!
Tragic News that coronavirus has reached Gaza.
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Trump’s Covid-19 Programme: Crisis Response, Turning Tables, and Corona-tion
One of the curious concepts in a crisis is the way in which the ‘old rules’ don’t so much not apply, as seem actively turned upon their head.
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Bridges’ Response To Government Corona Package Case Of Ideological Shiver Looking For Spine To Run Up
I must say, I’m a little surprised at Simon Bridges’ response to the Government’s Covid-19 package.
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The Only Way Through This Crisis Is Together
THE COALITION GOVERNMENT’S greatest political challenge over the next 6-12 months will be keeping up morale. If it can’t hold us together, then it will be swept from office by a tsunami of fear, anger and recrimination.