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.
Chris Trotter Chris Trotter is New Zealand’s leading leftwing political commentator, with thirty years of experience writing professionally about New Zealand politics. Victoria University of Wellington democracyproject.nz “CONSEQUENCES” – it’s a word that acquires an ominous quality in the mouths of political radicals. As in: “Freedom of speech
Chris Trotter Chris Trotter is New Zealand’s leading leftwing political commentator, with 30 years of experience writing professionally about New Zealand politics. He now writes regularly for the Democracy Project, producing his column “From the Left”. Victoria University of Wellington democracyproject.nz DISINFORMATION has been part and parcel of
Chris Trotter Victoria University of Wellington democracyproject.nz I ALWAYS WONDERED what it would take to detach the New Zealand working class from Labour. Not all of the working class, obviously, but enough to strip the party of the demographic heft that, for more than a century, has made it
Chris Trotter Chris Trotter is New Zealand’s leading leftwing political commentator, with 30 years of experience writing professionally about New Zealand politics. Victoria University of Wellington democracyproject.nz I WAS A CAPTAIN COOK MAN, Grant Robertson was a Robbie Burns man. If you know anything about the great student
