Why Not Just Cancel NZ’s Debt?
This means the only thing stopping the government from defaulting is fear.
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My Fashion Advice for Politicians
Clothes maketh the woman, but only apparently if they are madeth in the right placeth.
You Leave Your Free Speech at the Boss’s Door
Winston Peter’s heckler voided his free speech rights the moment he put the company lanyard around his neck.
It’s Not the Kids That Bother Me
The kids are fine. It’s the parents that need to be kicked in the butt.
Pay Equity Is Complete C***
Political reporters battle with their keyboards. They also have to battle for attention which is why, late at night after a few too many glasses of cab sav, they can fire off mean little diatribes.
Labour Plays the Politics of Aspersion
This is where the Politics of Aspersion have led us. No wonder Winston Peters held his head in his hands as Brooke van Velden read out Vance’s words on the floor of the House.
Pay Equity: Polls up or Balls Up?
With one week to go until the next budget, the coalition appears to have gained some momentum while their polling numbers improve. The challenge for Nicola Willis is to ensure the numbers in the books do the same next week.
Who Controls Your Mind?
The lesson is straightforward: if you cannot break your conditioning about forbidden words, then you aren’t really free. You belong to power.
Yes, Border Control Is Absolutely Moral
Border control is not only moral, it’s absolutely imperative.
Red Pill, Blue Pills and the Matrix That Is Capitalism
So many right-wingers continue to make the same, fundamental, category error. They truly believe that the people winning all the battles are communists. Even when they’re capitalists.
Why Does the Left Keep Winning?
The first vision that accepts humans for what they are – and allows them to be happy as they are – will win the future.
The Trump Blame Game
To prepare you for such an eventuality and smooth your path to social success, I have set out the rules to the game. Drink should be taken of the alcoholic sort: the better to enable participants to vent their anti-Trump animus free of sober restraint.
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Is This the End of the ‘Moderates’? [Updated]
The lesson for the coalition should be obvious – but will they listen?
We Need Adults in the Room
NZ will not move towards a new economic dispensation unless it is convinced the politicians offering it are serious, responsible and competent individuals. Men and women who know what men and women are and refuse to divide their fellow citizens along ethnic lines.