It Is Better to Be King of Your Silence...
than a slave of your words. Judge Ema Aitken and the architecture of Greek tragedy.
than a slave of your words. Judge Ema Aitken and the architecture of Greek tragedy.
NOTE: I was asked to be the guest speaker at the Cromwell Anzac Day service. This address is similar to one I gave at the small Southland community of Waikaka in 2023.
New Zealanders increasingly shoulder Treaty burdens not theirs to carry – learning Māori rites, obeying Crown guilt, and performing cultural submission. Here’s why.
Prime Minister, the country is running out of time – and you are running out of excuses. Enough. New Zealand cannot survive more soft leadership.
Running from a weekly interview slot is not a shrewd move. It is weakness on display. New Zealand deserves better than a leader who bends over and points at his own backside while claiming the sun shines out of it.
They failed at Bondi so they are punishing the people.
Australia’s wokest state has barely started transitioning to ‘full electrification’ and it’s already a disaster.
And it’s not just him. Hipkins is the same. They talk to this particular group. Is it their group? Their friends and colleagues? Or is that the group that contains the swinging voters?
Would RNZ have been remotely interested in her view on National’s leadership imbroglio if she had said Luxon was secure and deserved to lead the party into this year’s election? Somehow I don’t think so.
How the Department of Internal Affairs is building a social media surveillance regime before parliament has spoken.
The Covid era was a reckoning. It showed us that rights – the basis of our democratic nations – only matter unless someone decides they don’t any more and the reasons for that decision can be side-stepped and not really talked about.
Trying to overthrow a democratically elected prime minister.
National can keep ignoring the polls and the voters if they wish. They will reap what they sow.
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National's current woes are not unique to them as a political party, but instead indicative of cultural and structural problems within New Zealand’s political landscape.