The lesson is brutal but clear: in the modern political arena, fractured individual forces are doomed to failure. A collection of solitary actors, no matter how principled, will always be crushed by a disciplined, coordinated machine.
One aspect of Kiwi culture is our desire to give everyone a fair go. But the flipside is that we have little tolerance for anyone attempting to play dirty. That’s what the Māori Party is aiming to do.
Nowadays, growing numbers of the well-off and the poor see handouts as their birthrights in a quest to turn life into one big cradle until the grave. Not everybody, of course – but ever-growing numbers.
In defence of reality: trans terror.
In New Zealand, the China virus’ only gainful function has been to open our eyes even wider to the dishonesty of our power elites and health tsars, and to be even more suspicious of The Man, the Deep State, the Bloberati, official “inquiries”...
A government that wants better for children whose parents can’t or won’t care for them properly would ensure that the substantial resource going into these homes was practical and effective.
The language is already here. There will be political violence. Over and over we are having political leaders declare the Hitler test is met – and there is no push back or censure. It just needs time. And the spark.
The collaboration between CRL and the Mana Whenua Forum is only the beginning of the panel’s ambitions. It has decided a case study of the relationship will “provide a framework for future large infrastructure developments to enter into mana whenua iwi partnerships for the benefit of all”.
What Brave New World got right, what Huxley never found, and the room the machine can’t enter.
China is building ultra-supercritical coal-fired power plants in just three years.
The Supreme Court can wield the Equality Act to bankrupt Next and Birmingham City Council all it likes. But it can't change the fact that difficult and unpleasant bloke jobs will always pay more, says Robin Fellow.
Nearly two per cent of V-SAFE participants reported health deterioration lasting at least three months that they attributed to Covid vaccination. The CDC has yet to investigate.
