GUEST BLOG: Ross Meurant – Is the truth so dangerous we cannot speak it?
In my view, we tread a perilous path when we permit these matters to be effectively, swept under the carpet, because the revelations might be, too injurious to the public.
New Zealand Politics
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Notre Dame burning while Labour walk away from CGT – why Danyl Mclauchlan is the most important political writer of our age & how to save Queen Jacinda
Jacinda symbolises a modern progressive democracy, her being pregnant and a mother while in power added with her compassionate rhetoric and incredible emotional intelligence that guided a nation through an atrocity are too precious to throw away but she must take on the free market establishment if her symbolism is to mean anything.
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Winston Peters and Neo-liberalism, Beat Compassion and Cool.
No wonder Winston Peters objected to the Coalition Government being called Labour-led. Because, on matters of most importance, it’s led by New Zealand First. And even though Fortune Magazine this week said Jacinda Ardern was the second most powerful leader in the world, that would make Winston the first.
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Why Extinction Rebellion are right
…more and more people of conscience are willing to be arrested to force the climate change debate. If every person genuinely concerned about climate change joined Extinction Rebellion protests every weekend and shut down roads and clogged the judicial process with thousands of arrests, the Government would be forced out of their bullshit Carbon Neutral by 2050 complacency.
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TVNZ current affairs upgrade
As news from social media gets regularly denigrated with the same derision as smoking in cars with babies, the large broadcasters are starting to steer back towards journalism rather than light weight pap.
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The danger of the NZ Police mass surveillance state – we have maintained a silence closely resembling stupidity
38 years ago this year a young NZ anarchist punk blew himself up outside the new Police computer building fearing that the big brother state was looming.
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A new political party in the wake of the CGT betrayal & the Politics of Kindness vs the unCivil Service
The explosion of rage at Labour’s betrayal can’t go anywhere because who else would they vote for? If a Party with the right leader could step up there might be a contest of ideas in 2020.
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Every MP who votes for Euthanasia will be branded suicide enablers
Every MP who votes for this will be branded a suicide enabler and any time they attempt to speak on any social issue they should have their vote rammed down their throats.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – What Would Jesus Say?
Last week, as you probably heard, the historic cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris unfortunately caught fire.
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GUEST BLOG: Gerard Otto – MMP is to blame – not Jacinda
My theory is that Jacinda was correct to blame MMP, if blame must be placed anywhere.