Labour must get Ihumātao off the political agenda before Christmas
There are two issues with Ihumātao, one is a wider existential issue and the other is Realpolitik.
New Zealand Politics
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Reasserting the illegality of Israel settlements on occupied land
In a letter to the Minster of Foreign Affairs today, the Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa has called on Winston…
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On NZ First’s current funding ‘scandal’
If NZ First has broken the law, throw the book at NZ First, but I remember recently when the media were breathlessly insinuating that the Prime Minister not only knew about a serious sexual assault but that she had actively covered it up
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National Security Interests finally trump free market neoliberalism
This realisation that large corporations operating for regimes that aren’t democratic could buy strategic assets is the sudden reason why new regulations are being finally applied to overseas investment…
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The solution to the Government’s refusal to lift benefits
So how does Labour trick the bigoted sleepy hobbits of Muddle Nu Zilind into agreeing to a lift in welfare payments without the bigoted sleepy hobbits of Muddle Nu Zilind losing their shit?
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TWITTER WATCH: Ummm – a National Party MP who seems to think we have 1000 years worth of coal to burn
We suspect that National MPs are all climate deniers, Pugh suggests they are climate morons.
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The one glaring thing all this debate about Boomers vs Generation Xers vs Millennials is missing
Ever since Chloe triggered snowflake baby boomers with her ‘Ok Boomer’ burn in Parliament, pundits have flocked to defend or attack each generation. What is most interesting is that none of these opinions acknowledge the fundamental difference between Boomers and everyone else – neoliberalism!
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MUST READ: Democracy “A Bit Bonkers” – thoughts on Lizzie Marvelly & friends
THE EXPRESSIONS of stunned horror that greeted the news that Donald Trump had won the 2016 Presidential Election spoke volumes.
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“Ok Damien”
Now, these are only a few examples; and some of them are less direct than others. But I think that a cursory examination of Damien Grant’s column-calumny output suggests that he had abjectly no problem pushing generational stereotypes in order to propel strawman pseudo-political invective … right up until the point at which “millennials” started pushing *back*.
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GUEST BLOG: Tom Frewen – The TVNZ/RNZ merger
What is an open secret? An oxymoron, obviously — a contradiction in terms, capable of being both right and wrong at the same time.