Embedded At The New Zealand First Convention Part Two: Perception, Deception, Convention.
As I covered in yesterday’s part one of my NZ First Convention writeup, ours is a party often bedeviled by…
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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Sour Fruit: Why I’m not pinning my hopes on ESRA
IS IT TOO SOON to pronounce judgement upon ESRA? Economic & Social Research Aotearoa has only just been launched. So, surely, we should give it a little time to show us what it can do? Except that we already know what ESRA will do, because we already know what ESRA is.
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Dirty tricks against Corbyn not working
Corbyn’s opponents have tried every trick in the book to dent the Labour leader’s support.
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Embedded at the New Zealand First Convention Part 1: “The Board is Set, The Pieces Are Moving…”
One of the unique privileges of my position in the NZ politisphere is that I straddle two worlds. I’m a…
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SPECIAL FEATURE: The Truth About Migration (Part 1 of 4)
The issues involved in the current debate over immigration policy are so important for the country that understanding it properly requires an in-depth look that I am attempting here in four parts. I will repeat some of what I have written before but will also provide the most up to date data available.
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Auckland shows government’ policy failures writ large
Auckland is a two speed city ‘Real Housewives of Auckland’ at one end and desperately poor families living in cars in the middle of winter at the other. The affluent of Auckland are immune to the price system- it just doesn’t matter what things cost. At the other end, lives are spent economising on miserable and insufficient disposable incomes where every last 10 cents and every price rise matters.
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Who Are The Alt-Right? Clinton’s Greatest Creation
Late last month, US Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton made world-sweeping headlines for a campaign stump-speech in which she called out – by name – the previously internet-bound phenomenon known as ‘the Alt-Right’.
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Potentially A Game Changer: Some Further Thoughts On The People’s Party
Desperate times have called forth desperate measures. If the politicians won’t respond to the pleas of their immigrant communities, then perhaps they’ll react to some good old-fashioned competition.
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On The ‘New Zealand People’s Party’ – Misconceptions And Projections
Earlier this week a number of media outlets started running stories about something called the “New Zealand People’s Party” – a new electoral vehicle apparently set up by members of the Indian and Chinese communities in a bid to ensure better representation for those communities’ interests in our politics.
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Burka and Burkini bans: counterproductive in essence and effect
If countries with Muslim minorities are serious about achieving a cohesive society, then they should look at the discrimination against their Muslim population.