Why Labour need to radically adapt or face electoral annihilation in 2017
Labour need 35% to have a chance of changing the Government in 2017, a two tick urban campaign is the only viable way towards 35%.
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Guest Blog: A Basic Look at Basic Income
The Universal Basic Income (UBI) debate is an issue which is very close to my heart: It is quite literally the reason I went to university (I wanted to research it to see if it was really viable) and is also one of the main reasons I got into politics.
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Key’s Parliamentary Tantrum
We need the Prime Minister to be a leader, not a spoilt man-child.
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The last suffocation of journalism – the media mega merger
This is a failure of the free market the same way the free market has failed housing in Auckland.
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Key slags Amnesty International, Greenpeace and Mojo Mathers in childish tantrum to deflect Panama Papers
At best his response yesterday was as sophisticated as ‘I know you are, you said you are, but what am I’?
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Did Police give Slater ‘mates rates’?
If explaining is losing, Slater is chewing off both sides of his mouth today as he publishes 10 000 word blogs trying to explain why he broke the law.
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Cameron Slater – the man who decries suppression orders has just had his lifted and he has been charged with funding a hacking
Slater has managed to implode and this latest cocktail of hypocrisy and criminal offending must signal his end of influence in civil society.
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The Number Of The Beast: The New Zealand Left’s Abiding Obsession With John Key
The Left constantly fails to register the brute realities of living in a society driven by the neoliberal imperatives of twenty-first century capitalism. In a world where the interests of the successful individual trump everybody else’s, avoiding and/or evading tax has become an industry in its own right.
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EXCLUSIVE: Waitangi Tribunal ruling on TPPA – “it was unlikely that the Tribunal in this claim would opt to talk truth to power”
As I have pointed out over many years, the Waitangi Tribunal itself is an agency of the Crown as part of the judicial system. Members are appointed by the government. In this Tribunal they included three Pakeha men – a Maori land court judge, a former National Party cabinet minister, and a special counsel to a major law firm – along with a kaumatua of great mana, but who is not a lawyer, and a younger Maori woman with experience in the commercial world.
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Why John Key and Patrick Gower just ‘don’t get it’ about the Panama Papers
Gower is on TV telling everyone that there is ‘no king hit’ in the Panama Papers. That suggests an incredible miscomprehension by Mr Gower. The ‘king hit’ is that we are a Tax Haven, Gower’s inability to understand anything that can’t be splurged out in a 30 second sound bite is a limitation we shouldn’t allow cloud our vision of what the Panama Papers have shown us.