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Written By: Danyl Strype - Date published: 11:25 pm, November 12th, 2025
If you want to understand the value of public ownership, have a look at the natural monopolies that have been owned by corporations, Telecom and TransRail, for example. Or natural monopolies still owned by corporations; supermarket wholesalers, or tech ...Written By: Danyl Strype - Date published: 8:37 pm, November 12th, 2025
Decades of political participation have brought me to the same frustrating conclusion; a confident story about the immediate benefits of snake oil is much more effective than a detailed, evidence-based argument against snake oil. But it's precisely the ...Written By: Danyl Strype - Date published: 7:49 pm, September 1st, 2025
The comment you're replying to answers that question. Because it entrenches them in their support for Winston First. Where as if we listen to them, find out what fears are behind their anger, and what's driving those fears, maybe we can convince them their ...Written By: Danyl Strype - Date published: 7:37 pm, September 1st, 2025
Brian Tamaki has tried many times to be the Billy Graham of NZ, converting people to evangelicalism and funneling them into a conservative political party. But our real Billy Graham is Winston Peters, community hall revivals instead of tent revivals, ...Written By: Danyl Strype - Date published: 2:17 pm, June 14th, 2024
It's 40 years today since a punch drunk (and actually drunk) Muldoon announced the snap election that led to the start of the silent coup by the Rogernomes and Ruthenomes. I've posted some relevant links and commentary here; https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@ ...Written By: Danyl Strype - Date published: 12:31 pm, April 5th, 2024
Let's fix NZ's Citizen Initiated Referenda along the lines of the last two government referenda. Make it a vote to pass a bill that's already been drafted. How would this work in practice? Once the organisers of a CIR get the required number of signatures, ...Written By: Danyl Strype - Date published: 9:10 am, February 2nd, 2024
Chess Player even if they hamstrung themselves with the insistence that they would only join with Labour Where does this myth come from? The Greens have always said they'll work with other parties on areas of policy agreement, and they do. When it comes to ...Written By: Danyl Strype - Date published: 9:02 am, February 2nd, 2024
Look, I'm the first to criticise the hamfisted and counterproductive ways some Green MPs and activists have responded to fear-driven rhetoric on "identity" issues. But the sex/gender thing really isn't that complicated. Sex is an objective biological fact; ...Written By: Danyl Strype - Date published: 10:38 am, August 4th, 2020
Since the new law was passed the Chinese government have already tried to extradite a US citizen (originally from HK) for normal political lobbying that isn't illegal in the US. Cancelling an extradition treaty with an arm-twisting bully like that is just ...Written By: Danyl Strype - Date published: 4:39 pm, July 29th, 2020
> I dont believe there are any examples of an NZ minister of foreign affairs directly criticizing US policy let alone abandoning extradition treaties. How about a Prime Minister, David Lange, tearing up ANZUS in protest at US nuclear proliferation? NZ ...Written By: Danyl Strype - Date published: 4:43 pm, August 2nd, 2017
*Sigh*. There's an old saying that 'the right looks for converts, the left for traitors'. Jacinda has only been leader for a couple of days, and already some on the left are dashing to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, casting Jacinda as an agent of ...Written By: Danyl Strype - Date published: 4:31 pm, August 2nd, 2017
"Long term, I don’t see this leadership change as a great move for the NZ left – more akin to Blair’s rise in the UK – blocking a real left wing government, and holding the middle ground til the Nats get back in power and shift things even further to the ...
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