“Not The Labour Party We Once Knew.”
THIRTY YEARS AFTER he quit the party in disgust, a man called Mark has re-joined Labour. That’s remarkable. It’s also a tribute to the power of Jacinda Ardern, and to the strength of the hopes she has kindled.
New Zealand Politics
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LATEST TVNZ POLL: National + ACT are the Government – but but but Bryce Edwards said Labour Conference was amazing?!?
Let’s be clear, personally I think National winning would be disastrous, and Labour must gain a second term. but Labour are not helping themselves with their politics of kindness inclusion glacial consensus making stuff because it means change is incredibly slow.
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Great – just what paranoid gun owners need, a massive Police privacy breach – this will get ACT 3%
Stuart Nash needs to serve that audience a sacrificial head or else the conspiracy theories will take over and crazy extremist elements will dominate.
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GUEST BLOG: Geoff Simmons – TOP Takes on The Banks
Over the weekend TOP volunteers began a guerilla campaign against New Zealand’s Australian-owned banks, stickering hundreds of ATMs in our main centres.
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GUEST BLOG: Christine Dann – Foster-ing climate change, Wellington style
When Andy Foster was unexpectedly elected mayor of Wellington in October (albeit by an extremely narrow margin, and fifth time lucky) questions were raised about the considerable support he had received from local movie mogul Sir Peter Jackson.
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Political Podcast – Sean Plunket vs Mark Mitchell vs Damien Grant vs Bomber: This week – Strike force raptor, Gangs and Prisoner Voting
We rumbled ‘They demonise themselves’: National MP Mark Mitchell defends gang crackdown in heated debate MP Mark Mitchell defended National’s…
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Dr Liz Gordon: Kangen water and the price of ciggies
You saw it first in this column, last year. I said that Māori and Pasifika people in low-income communities were…
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MEDIAWATCH: Willie Jackson calls it like it is by reminding Ihumatao protestors of what National would have done
After smacking down Labour’s Māori senior vice president Tane Phillips in favour of Claire Szabó, Willie Jackson’s job to keep the 7 Māori electorates just got harder.
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Labour Party yawn-fest of a conference
Labour’s message is ‘Labour – Let’s keep doing this’.
Really, and what is ‘this’ that we are doing? Incremental glacial change?
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Authoritarian Friends and Democratic Enemies
ACCEPTING AUTHORITARIANISM is challenging. For New Zealanders especially, raised in one of the world’s oldest democracies, official hostility to political liberty is difficult to comprehend.