Labour keeps the status quo on tax, but has it shot itself in the foot?
But it’s a terrible move for Labour’s progressive reputation and standing. Voters who want to see progress made on inequality, poverty, and a genuinely transformational leftwing government after 14 October will be severely disillusioned.
“We were here first,” is no justification for anything
That, at root, is why racism is irrational and evil. It pretends that a category of people distinguished in some way by the nature of their ancestry are a collective mass with collective ideas, behaviour, etc.
The PM pushes old-time religion
While Luxon is pilloried for his religious views, Hipkins is busy inserting Māori spirituality into science.
Meanwhile, down a blind alley ...
Cherry’s energy, news judgment and passion for journalism would be missed, Courtney said. In that case, what happened to make her quit?
New Zealand gets ready to embrace NATO
So far, the New Zealand PM has only announced three main engagements for his travel – providing plenty of time, at least in theory, for a quick side-trip to Ukraine.
Licence to indoctrinate
Communications and media studies faculties are infested by zealots and activists, many of them espousing ideas that are inimical to liberal democratic values such as free speech.
“Old man howls at moon. Again”
Yet our sycophantic politically-biased hide-everything tell-no-truth take-the-PIJ-money-to-buy-silence “legacy media” won’t ever report it. There are very good reasons why I don’t/won’t talk/write about politics.
Shane Te Pou is profoundly wrong
Mr Te Pou notes that “the greatest political achievement of my lifetime is the bipartisan political consensus we managed to forge on Treaty settlements”. But nobody is disputing the importance of those settlements – not Christopher Luxon, not David Seymour, and certainly not me.
Chris Hipkins’ successful meeting with Xi Jinping
Hipkins carefully declined to be drawn on what views Xi expressed during the private meeting, saying that ‘wouldn’t be diplomatic or appropriate’.
Guest post: Why I have left the Labour Party
(As founder of the Progeni software company, Perce Harpham, now 91, was a pioneer of the New Zealand computer industry. He is also a former Green Party candidate.)