Can the Woke Left-Wing Leopards Change Their Spots?
This is Chris Hipkins’ toughest challenge: to persuade the voters that his left-wing leopards have, indeed, become conventionally gendered, non-woke pussy cats.
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.
A Better Idea
Donald Trump’s instinct is to relocate the inhabitants, flatten what’s left and build the sort of city that people from all around the world would want to inhabit.
Having a Chat Over Coffee
The SUP would rather keep control of the losing side, than lose control of the winning side. Labour’s exactly the same.
Which Sort of People?
Only a populist leader can be trusted to give them what they want – which is, usually, to blow the system up.
Fascism in the USA? Not Even Close
Only a rejuvenated and aggressive left, with the working class behind it, could secure the triumph of fascism in America – and no such left exists.
On Writing to the King
Such comments reveal just how frayed the bonds of constitutional loyalty have become and how little stock the opposition parties now put in the democratic norms of representative government.
How They Set the Pattern
Māori and their left-wing allies are both well aware that when the key institutions of the state are in your hands, guns are an unwelcome distraction.
Covid-19 and the State
Exposing the purposes of power. When people come to believe that the danger was exaggerated and measures to combat it are barely effective or even harmful, then the state’s power disintegrates and it can only be buttressed by ever-more-draconian controls.
This Is Such a Shameful Capitulation
We can have democracy or we can have indigenous sovereignty. We can’t have both.
The US Is Now Transformed
The Republican Party can now become a truly ‘national’ political institution.
This Is Project Fear Unleashed
The disaffection with official America runs so deep that its condemnation of Trump was received by roughly half of the adult American population as a powerful recommendation.
Is Prebble a Warning Shot?
Why then fire Prebble as the government’s only, lonely, warning shot? Why not clean out all 22 of the tribunal’s sitting members?
No Place for Love in a Mean Season
If National’s leading liberals want to be loved, then they should each go out and buy themselves a dog.
“Iwi versus Peewee”: A Good, Old-Fashioned Debate
It is the particular tragedy of contemporary New Zealand politics that, with the noble exception of Bradbury’s Working Group, the critical cultural, political and constitutional issues raised by the Treaty Principles Bill will not be fairly, frankly or fearlessly debated anywhere else.