The Identity Politics Left in NZ need to understand the enemy aren’t people who disagree with us or cling to sexist, racist or homophobic lies. The enemy are corporations and failed political systems that callously sacrifice people for profit which exacerbates the social injustice that fuels sexism, homophobia and racism.
In the ears of the neoliberals, passionate policy debates register as little more than the whooping and chest-beating of Chimpanzees: mindless status displays; idiotic battles for recognition and dominance. Uncontrolled democracy drowns out the signals of the marketplace, making it impossible for the advice of those with the expertise needed to decode its messages to be heard.
In the current government I am aware of only one single government minister, David Parker, who is prepared to push back against “official advice” and find a better way forward.
National is bitching about due process?
This is appalling journalism from Newshub.
The relationship between New Zealand’s public and private health systems has long been a subject of debate, wariness and occasional controversy. Yesterday the results of a University of Otago study of patients who needed public hospital care after private inpatient treatment were reported in the mainstream media.
Compensation to those impacted and the immediate sacking of any management involved in this decision alongside criminal prosecution for manslaughter is required.
…you can either read the insights here first or wait for the mainstream media to read it here and then write about it the next day.
Why bother having a trial if the Greens have already found all men guilty?
The Greens need to urgently get ahead of this story now, is there anything else that might come out because one more new detail he hasn’t told us will be damaging.