The National Party must be feeling emboldened by Boris’s win. That win was predicated, to a great extent, on the notion that if you say things over and over, people will begin to believe you. This is the only way I can understand the profligate and wasteful two page spread in this morning’s paper. The navy blue ink was not quite dry – it stained my hand a little.
It is an axiom of Newtonian science that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. This is, of course, an expression about force in the physical world. But to a great extent in recent times it seems to be about politics, and about the opposites which are simultaneously in the public view in this complex world.
What if the New Zealand First sudden out-of-the-blue announcement of support for journalism and ‘traditional media’ in general, as well as two significant media companies that’re looking to merge in particular …
2019 was year of pain and suffering with only tiny infant steps of progress but there were amongst us people who led fearlessly and with courage. If we are to seek meaning from the last 12 months around our Sun, let’s do that by saluting those of us who led by example and hope we can attempt to emulate their strength.
Why the silence, WHY NO OUTCRY OF ANGER, from our mainstream media?
In many ways, this should have been UK Labour’s election to lose. Or, at least, do a helluvalot better on with the Cons on the back, flat, bear-trapped-and-mangled foot.
Christchurch City Mayor Lianne Dalziel’s election expenses return, filed on the last day today, makes a mockery of her claims to have “high expectations of openness and transparency”.
On 29 August 2019 we wrote the following email to Ron Mark:
The government needs to be told that there is a difference between measuring a problem and doing something seriously about it.
I’m just assuming Fairfax now donates to the NZ First Foundation.