Idiot Windbag: Mike Hosking On Democracy
What did Hosking say? Well, he was giving us the benefit of his deep insight and wisdom concerning the recent local government elections. This is what he said:
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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Trading hot air – New Green MP – Barry Coates
This week, the Climate Change Minister, Paula Bennett announced that the government would not listen to rational arguments calling for these fraudulent units to be cancelled and replaced by credits with at least some integrity. The government plans to use the surplus credits to meet our future targets.
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Green candidate Jill Stein makes her case for the US presidency
Up until now most progressive Americans have been backing the “lesser evil” in the US presidential contest. They don’t particularly like Hillary Clinton’s establishment politics but they’ve been scared into her camp because Donald Trump is so terrible.
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Auckland Electoral Post-Mortem Part One: ‘Solids’ And ‘Biddables’
So now that the dust’s started to settle and the excitement’s mostly over (barring one or two personages who’ll be sitting on tenterhooks awaiting the results of special voting), the attention of the Commentariat has sensibly turned to picking over the weekend’s local body electoral result.
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Clever Strategy vs Desperate Tactics: Hillary Clinton allows Donald Trump to survive the Second Presidential Debate
THE SECOND US PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE demonstrated brilliantly the difference between strategy and tactics. Hillary Clinton’s performance was all about the political needs of the next 30 days. Donald Trump was fighting for his life.
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EXCLUSIVE: Penny Hulse – the first 100 days
Re engaging with our communities is vital, the low voter turnout is disappointing. The mainstream media ignore us or make us the object of ridicule and then we wonder why people don’t vote. The role of alternative media voices is going to be vital over the next 3 years.
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A Fair suck of the sauce bottle!
It is all very weird in a world where a rugby player can do a real crime with real victims and not even get a conviction because it would hurt his career. Women without means can have their lives ruined because they must be made examples of as warning to others, while the plight of their children can be totally ignored. Fairly disgraceful.
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The Masculine Mystique: The True Nature Of Aaron Smith’s Transgression
New Zealand’s problems with masculinity are deeply embedded in its social and cultural history. New Zealand men are notorious for being excessively repressed and emotionally unavailable: tightly-wound machines with an aversion to mechanics.
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Minto for Mayor campaign in celebration mode
We didn’t win the mayoralty but we made great progress on the major issue of asset sales and we think we have pushed the incoming council to take a stronger stand on each of the big issues we raised during the campaign.
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EXCLUSIVE INVESTIGATION: Serco, Monitors, and the Corrections Dept cover-up
. . Continued from: Questions over Serco’s “independent” monitors and it’s Contract with the Crown As I wrote over a year…