Party Politics and Dynamite Fishing
Party politics increasingly treats voters like fish to be stunned before election day. But when campaigns win by blasting the civic lake, communities are left to live in the damaged water.
NZ Politics
Wake up and Smell the Curry
In my view, Luxon and McClay have done the best they could and probably better than most, if not all. We cannot afford to shut ourselves off from the world’s biggest global markets.
We Are Now in Parallel Universes
To win on free speech is to win. And the wokesters know it.
What’s the Point of Being a Minister?
It is little wonder that levels of trust in our politicians are so low that one increasingly hears New Zealanders saying they don’t want to vote for any of them.
National’s Economic Gamble: Peter Dunne’s Rose-Tinted Glasses Ignore the Bleed to Winston
National’s strategy is risky, sure. But pretending Labour has the answers is riskier still. The next few months will decide whether the economic recovery translates into votes or whether the coalition’s hard work gets rewarded with another term.
Ban the Hardware Not the Software
We need to save childhood without destroying adult freedom.
You Have 90 Seconds to Impact
A pilot who freezes is not a pilot. He is a passenger with a better view.
We Can Not Allow a Charter University
In a final irony, due to the loss of this revenue from international tuition fees, half of the lecturers that would not support the UoD lost their jobs. But fortunately, as always, Grant still did alright.
‘We Are One Country’
“We deliver our public services to people on the basis of need, not ethnicity.”
Please, Show Us the Manuscript
Matariki, an unpublished manuscript and the abandonment of “peer review”.