Pride comes before a fall
Remember, this was all started because trans people might be triggered by a Police uniform, Everyone feeling triggered yet?
New Zealand Politics
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Welfare reforms have not occurred – it’s still toxic. Is the politics of kindness hollow?
…if only this Government could protect the users of welfare services as much as they do the staff of these services.
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GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – Kate Hawkesby is free to have a political opinion
What my colleagues wore is of no interest or importance, what we discussed, debated and talked about as we gear up to deliver on the promises we made the people IS important.
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GUEST BLOG: Gerard Otto – The media can do so much better
It is good to see Andrea speaking out like a lone voice and to see the media attempting to hold the media to account.
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WARNING: Events dear boy, events – where is Nashy & Jonsey?
There are events that manage to crystallise a deeper rage and explode in a way few predict. Brash’s manufactured Orewa Speech, the ignorant madness towards the repeal of section 59 and the backlash against Kim Dotcom’s Moment of Truth are all perfect examples of this.
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Waitangi Day 2019 – With Brash going, could it explode?
Waitangi 2019 has no obvious fuse to it, but there is a cocktail of things that combined could become very unstable very quickly.
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The real purpose of the Blue Greens and New Conservatives
Pundits are missing the real point of the Blue Greens and the New Conservatives and the behind the scenes support both political embryos are getting from National.
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MUST READ: The Incredible Lightness of Being Green
How different is today’s Green caucus from the “magnificent seven” Green MPs who entered the House of Representatives so triumphantly in 1999. The New Zealand establishment recognised those Greens for what they were: enemies of the status-quo and certainly not the sort of people this country’s capitalists (not even those in the Labour Party!) felt the least bit comfortable about doing business with. Red-Greens they were called: a label which MPs Sue Bradford and Keith Locke wore with pride. Today, to be branded a Red is simply embarrassing: proof only of outdated thinking.
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Is this Kate Hawkseby’s worst column ever?
…I thought Kate’s hateful attack on a garden in a prison and her weird attack on Meghan Markle were pretty awful columns, but basing an entire one on what MPs wore at a retreat seems so shallow it’s difficult to do anything other than mock it.
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GUEST BLOG: Gerard Otto – Kate Hawkseby Village Idiot
The Speaker is allowed to maintain links with their political party and in the past it has been up to the Speaker whether they attend caucus or conferences.
A fact lost upon the NZME resident half wit Kate Hawkesby in her article titled “What a dag! Is this really how Labour Party MPs dress for a retreat?”