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Progressive politics embodies the idea of movement, and we have had a large helping recently. But which way are we moving? Is it upwards or downwards, forwards or back? Attributed in the Regency period – that pinnacle of British, if not of global civilisation – to Alexander Fraser Tytler, is the observation
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A piece by Aussie-domiciled ‘AAP FactCheck’ but written by Otago-based free-lancer George Driver (a sometimes-contributor to The Spinoff and RNZ) and subsequently published by several New Zealand outlets piqued my interest: a Judith Collins statement, was, they adjudged, “False” – adding “The checkable claim is false”. How
NZ First Damien Grant (Stuff): Winston Peters’ political story is coming to an end John Armstrong (1News): Winston Peters and NZ First are goners come election night Zane Small (Newshub): Winston Peters thinks some MPs have become ‘clone members who are indistinguishable’ Jason Walls (Herald): NZ First leader Winston Peters
the play’s the thing Hamlet, Act 2 Scene 2 Between the acting of a dreadful thing and the first motion, all the interim is like a phantasma or a hideous dream Julius Caesar, Act 2 Scene 1 The term ‘method acting’ encompasses a range of training and rehearsal techniques
The media are talking about Winston as if he has gone already. The man whose political career spans nearly 50 years has reached an ignominious end. Everyone is treating him as irrelevant. Judith Collins, in promising funding for the racing industry, has just made an attempt to steal his last
National leader Judith Collins has got in on the early voting action casting her ballot in Auckland’s Tamaki. Collins, who stands in the Papakura electorate, lives in Tamaki, a seat comfortable held by National MP Simon O’Connor. She arrived about 11 am to place her vote at St
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Timothy J. Lynch University of Melbourne With just a month left until the November 3 US presidential election, contracting the virus could have politically positive or negative consequences for President Donald Trump. These will, of course, be contingent on how severe the president’s illness becomes. But we should not
Democrat supporters insist against all evidence that sleepy, creepy Joe Biden won the first presidential debate, no question about it. In which case, you’d be forgiven for thinking that they’d be itching to see two more rounds of the Bad Orange Man getting his comeuppance. Ha. In reality,
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