We can not allow a victim porn media to promote victim culture to the point where compassion and redemption are eclipsed and extinguished by anger and vengeance.
By supporting the TPPA, NZ First, the Labour and the National party all said yes to protecting investors’ rights over and above the interests of an ordinary citizen.
Marcroft is supposed to have asked for a meeting with Mitchell, turned up, and bluntly laid out that Mitchell was to cease his support for a particular river restoration project if he wanted it to see funding from the Government.
Once appraised of Curran’s hopes and fears, and quite possibly, of her intentions vis-à-vis the reappointment – or not – of RNZ Board Chairperson, Richard Griffin, did Hirschfeld suddenly find herself in possession of information as sensitive and compromising as it was potentially career-destroying? Did the Right and its media allies, informed of Curran’s meeting with Hirschfeld, simply seize an opportunity to kill two potentially very dangerous birds with a single stone?
Matthew Hooton is braying in the Herald that Jacinda is stumbling from crisis to crisis. That’s only true if you define crisis as things that piss off Mike Hosking.
I preferred Hooton when he was on the NBR behind a paywall.
We’ve gone from leaky homes to leaky buildings. Thank you National Party, looking at the obscene truth of your underfunding over the last decade, we now know how you managed all those budget surpluses.
This is a kind of insanity.
…ok, so we can’t find any Russian Spies to expel, soooooooooooooo what about any Chinese Spies?
RNZ isn’t left wing, it’s elitist with a class snobbery and a misplaced sense of self-importance that imbues everything based in Wellington.
The government has got it badly wrong with the new Policy Targets Agreement, its contract with the Reserve Bank about monetary policy. Perhaps inadvertently, the emphasis is now on maximising employment, not living standards. Maximising employment is not the same as minimising unemployment.