New Zealand needs a more working-class Parliament
Looking at the left, it’s unlikely that the Green Party can foster any sort of working-class politics, as their voting constituency is very much the professional managerial class.
Does learning te reo make you virtuous?
Our true language heroes are immigrants.
Media struggles for answers after election
Journalists resort to imaginative reasons for Labour’s loss.
Don’t push hatred underground; expose it
Speak out, instead. Our voices are more powerful than we often believe.
Hallelujah: first steps of progress at last
We would be most unwise, however, to conclude that life is automatically going to improve now that this truly awful Labour government is about to disappear
Beware of the media in the home-stretch
Why is no journalist writing about this, preferring instead to erect straw men to knock down as they work up unlikely tales about Chris Luxon’s problems with David Seymour and Winston Peters?
How will New Zealand handle the new war in the Middle East?
Determining New Zealand’s response to the new war in the Middle East will be one of the new New Zealand government’s first challenges
Will co-governance drive a counter-revolution?
Seymour is not for turning on a Treaty referendum.
The Angry Majority
It is the news media’s job to elicit information from politicians – not to prosecute them. Peters’ promise to sort out TVNZ should be believed. If he finds himself in a position to carry out his threat, then it will only be because the angry majority has had enough – and voted accordingly.
Ten reasons Labour’s support has halved
So why has Labour gone from such highs to such lows so quickly?