As believers of the power for good a well funded state sector can create, we on the Left are big supporters of the state, so what do we do when we realise that some functions of state are not only broken and deformed, they are actually creating counter productive damage that demands a radical amputation and regrowth?
Doc Edge are thrilled to announce that a visa has been granted for Iranian filmmaker Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami to attend the Documentary Edge International Film Festival in New Zealand.
That a right wing money trader should exploit the power of Office shouldn’t shock or surprise us, but the widespread devotion to him by so many should.
I think 30 years of rampant neoliberal consumerism has created an ocean of wage slaves who buy sparkly things in sterile malls to numb the hollowness of a culture that knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
No Losers @ Winz, an objective and rational critique of New Zealand’s welfare system, will be the first single off the album.
The central characters in each book represent, for me at least, the ‘most important’ New Zealanders of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; namely Ngāti Toa chief, Te Rangihaeata, and our most-loved Australian immigrant, Michael Joseph Savage.
It’s bad enough that Max Key gets to humblebrag his privilege through social media and epitomise all that is wrong with our shallow ‘celebrity’ culture but giving him a free pass so another commercial radio station can give the Keydashian brand even more leverage is eye rolling.
“Have a care when fighting dragons, lest ye become a dragon yourself.” Nietzsche’s famous aphorism remains as confronting as ever. To beat the likes of the Right’s Matthew Hooton, should the Left attempt to match their Machiavellian amorality? Or, should it simply decide not to invite them onto “Table Talk” panels?
In a country where there is an abundance of money and resources to go around, an elite selfish and callous few are refusing to share. For a few to prosper many must suffer.
This disturbing and violent trend in relation to sports teams loosing or winning, is of course not isolated. In New Zealand when The All Blacks win a game the police reported to the NZ Herald in 2012, that they witnessed an increase in domestic violence.