Is Democracy Becoming a ‘Nice to Have’?
Why stop at eliminating just one layer of democratic representation, when many people wouldn’t really mind if you eliminated them all?
Chris Trotter
Known principally for his political commentaries in The Dominion Post, The ODT, The Press and the late, lamented Independent, and for "No Left Turn", his 2007 history of the Left/Right struggle in NZ.
The Cross Benches Beckon NZ First
With woke clowns to the left of him and free-market jokers to his right, Winston’s offer to sit there in middle with us grows more appealing by the day.
The Peelian Principles and Police Work
No group of human-beings is more dangerous than a group of idealists determined to ensure the survival of their ideals – even at the cost of ignoring or actively subverting everybody else’s.
The Last Generation for Whom Democracy Worked
The Baby Boomers got everything they voted for – no wonder they keep on voting.
Back and Forth: A Whipsaw Democracy
A parliament that pulls one way this year and then pushes back in the opposite direction next year is courting its own demise.
The BSA’s Power Grab Attempt
The impresarios of moral outrage are poised to deliver the internet into the hands of the Broadcasting Standards Authority.
Aww Playtime Is Over Now
Peace in Gaza is at hand – to the utter bewilderment of the radical left.
Ladies to the Left, Gentlemen the Right
What’s driving the widening gender-gap between Labour and National, ACT and the Greens?
There Is Now No Debate
How strange and tragic that ordinary trade unionists are no longer trusted to decide what they believe in.
Schmitt Happens
In the end, argued Carl Schmitt, democracy boils down to a struggle between us and them.
No Friend of the Left
Charlie Kirk exposed the “achievements” of the woke left for the paltry performative parodies of politics they have always been.
This New Occupying Power
Sometimes it feels as though we’re no longer in charge of our own country.
We Have Blind Eyed Spies
The SIS’s latest threat assessment reads more like a public relations hand out from an agency profoundly compromised by the woke imperatives of the 2020s.