Excuse me Minister
I listened in disbelief to Lisa Owen interviewing Bill English on The Nation. Perhaps they believe their own spin?
politics
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Strange Rumblings In Carterton: Reflections On Spending My Weekend Campaigning For Ron Mark
Over this weekend just gone, I was deployed alongside more than a dozen members of New Zealand First’s new, nascent youth wing into the Wairarapa electorate. The mission was simple: train and upskill a group of ardent young people in preparation for the necessary exigencies of what promises to be a thrilling 2017 campaign.
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Left parties should support a big drop in house prices
Labour and the Greens should not be scared to support economist Arthur Grimes’ call for policies to bring down Auckland house prices by 40%. We don’t need to support all his policy suggestions. But let’s recognise that a 40% drop would only bring the Auckland median house price (now around $820,000) down to what it was four years ago ($495,000). Why not aim for that?
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MEDIA WATCH: The Terrifying Radicalism of Matthew Hooton
WHAT DOES IT MEAN to be a radical in the 21st Century? Listening to RNZ’s “Nine To Noon” this morning, I realised it may mean subscribing to the views of Matthew Hooton.
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Why Judith Collins is the only one happy with Gower’s Poll and why she suspended Ngapari Nui’s voluntary work in Whanganui Prison
…Collins is blowing her dog whistle now for a reason.
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A short history for the media of Stephen Joyce losing his cool
…Joyce has played fast and loose with the rules since he entered Parliament. That he’s continuing it now should surprise no one.
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Why Corbyn will win
The working class simply said we have had enough, we want our party back, it has been hijacked by middle-class poseurs who have no right to claim to represent working people.
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Labour saves its best present for last – why Little’s Housing plan is a political game changer more than a solution to poverty
In terms of a political game changer, the Labour Party’s final present to NZ on its 100th Birthday of 100 000 affordable homes is about as good as it gets.
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Andrew Little – the quiet revolutionary and the thirst to rebuild a civil society
I’ve personally known 5 Labour Party leaders. Lange, Clark, Goff, Shearer and Cunliffe. Lange wrote columns for the University Magazine I edited, I met Clark dozens of times, I went around to Goff’s house for a BBQ, I used to catch up with Shearer for coffees now and then and I’ve hung out with Cunliffe.
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Hiding war crimes
The arrogant militarism of Western leaders has been revealed anew with the publishing of the long-awaited Chilcot Report.