Ladies to the Left, Gentlemen the Right
What’s driving the widening gender-gap between Labour and National, ACT and the Greens?
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.
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.
These Are the New Magicians
All universities are performing a magic trick. The professors to watch out for are those who insist they know how the trick is done – and have a better one.
This Is Their Single Biggest Obstacle
Raising taxes will be a hard-sell for Chris Hipkins if all the additional revenue is pledged to funding pay equity.
Through the Gun or Education?
Reformers will tell you that education is the answer. Revolutionaries know they’re lying.
The Pressure Points
When Israel tried to force Hamas’ hand by instituting the blockade, the terrorists would have been delighted. Nothing was more calculated to unhinge the sentimental nations of the West than images of emaciated children. These would be the martyrs that counted.
We Are on a Collision Course
Can New Zealanders change their direction of travel? Do they want to?
Too Few to Win, Too Many to Die
Why should New Zealanders pay the slightest attention to anything the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples has to say?
When the Panic Goes Live
The Professional-Managerial Class feels the chill winds of change around its privileged status – and it doesn’t like it.
So They Set Brushfires
What chance do the “progressive forces” have of prevailing in the battle for the future if they are forced to admit, if only to themselves, that the left is losing to the right in a fair fight?