100000 new houses, ban on foreign land buyers, re-entering Pike River & sugar tax – this is what political leadership looks like
I have said it once, I’ll say it again – pundits still don’t understand how radical this Government intends to be.
New Zealand Politics
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What Jacinda Ardern is really doing with the TPPA
…I think that keeping their heads down and allowing the TPPA to implode all on its own to escape an open confrontation with the elite rich of NZ is a smarter move for a new Government than declaring war on the neoliberal establishment on day one.
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What NZ First Chief of Staff appointment really means
The truth is that this Government intends to be far more interventionist and radical than others before it and the corporate punditry are tactically in denial about that so that they can express faux outrage when the free market neoliberalism on steroids gets challenged.
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Dollars and sense – Joyce’s hypocrisy
You’d think that after the humiliation of being dumped from government, that National’s ex-Ministers would keep a relatively low profile in the next few months.
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Who Is Craig Renney, And What Is He Advising Grant Robertson To Do?
But what, exactly, does that mean? Is Craig merely putting flesh on the bones of Grant’s, and the Labour Policy Council’s, ideas? Or, are Grant and Labour merely repeating ideas and policy positions fed to them by Craig? And, if it’s the latter, then what are the ideas and policies our new government is being asked to swallow?
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Can Labour resist the Prison Industrial Complex?
It takes far more money to heal human beings than punish them, but the results are far healthier for society as a whole.
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“Inflamatory Remarks”
You know, it is a peculiar thing to wake up to various people demanding the expulsion of an Iranian diplomat for remarks he made at a private gathering about the state of Israel. I mean, correct me if I’m wrong about this … but it was not Iran which boldly threatened a state of war with our country only a few months ago, now, was it.
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GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – FORESHORE AND SEABED
I was really pleased to see the response from all the Maori Party supporters over the last couple of days with my comments about the Foreshore and Seabed.
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Socialism and Populism: The Party is Just Beginning!
ZACH CASTLES is sitting, gutted, in a café overlooking the Thames. The former “National ministerial adviser”, no longer having any National ministers to advise, has clearly relocated himself to a more promising political marketplace. Even so, our brave young capitalist has taken the time to share his thoughts with The Spinoff. (Who else!) And, oh, comrades, what thoughts they are!