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David Seymour wants to snuff out bottlenecks and barriers to our response to global fuel uncertainty

Written By: - Date published: 3:08 pm, March 29th, 2026 - 14 comments

David Seymour is supplying misleading ideas on how to boost our fuel resilience.

Is the Government’s $50 a week a vote winner?

Written By: - Date published: 2:57 pm, March 25th, 2026 - 31 comments

The Government’s targeted fuel support is pork-barrelling.

Neoliberalism is anathema to effective crisis management

Written By: - Date published: 5:04 pm, March 21st, 2026 - 24 comments

Don’t hold on to an old umbrella in a wuthering storm.

Should job hiring be fair and transparent?

Written By: - Date published: 12:03 pm, February 20th, 2026 - 13 comments

Honi soit qui mal y pense.

This National-led Government is the best mis-manager of the economy

Written By: - Date published: 12:37 pm, February 4th, 2026 - 9 comments

When the coalition is treating the economy as a game, are they having fun?

Mapping Carney’s speech to our MMP Politics

Written By: - Date published: 4:45 pm, January 23rd, 2026 - 59 comments

Carney’s observations of the rupture in the world order and great power rivalry are mirrored in NZ politics.

Atlas NZ Inc: we are (the) good guys

Written By: - Date published: 3:55 pm, January 21st, 2026 - Comments Off on Atlas NZ Inc: we are (the) good guys

When holding out an olive branch to the Left in your Right hand, you should also show the other hand.

Flooding the zone with Trump trumps Godwin’s law

Written By: - Date published: 3:24 pm, January 18th, 2026 - 16 comments

When intensely watching the orange orangutan in the White House we miss the invisible gorilla in the oval room.

David Seymour’s Act Repeals Freedom and Democracy

Written By: - Date published: 1:43 pm, November 22nd, 2025 - 28 comments

For all people who believe and stand for freedom & democracy, know thy enemy, who has a name and a platform.

The Three Wakas of the Coalition of Coxes

Written By: - Date published: 6:01 am, June 5th, 2025 - 6 comments

Once viewed through the right lens, the politics of the Coalition makes a lot more sense.

Willis’ Roundup Budget will not grow new shoots of the economy

Written By: - Date published: 12:55 pm, May 24th, 2025 - 11 comments

Nicola Willis’ Budget is bad for growth and a Big throwback unfit for NZ.

The Coalition Continues to Defund Science

Written By: - Date published: 2:28 pm, May 18th, 2025 - 6 comments

Another science fund bites the dust in New Zealand.

Why Write (and Read)?

Written By: - Date published: 12:24 pm, April 12th, 2025 - 10 comments

Art has political power and every voice counts.

Misleading Billboards Are a Threat to Electoral Integrity

Written By: - Date published: 6:44 pm, April 7th, 2025 - 33 comments

Misleading the public never is good for politics.

When Government does not want to listen to the people

Written By: - Date published: 10:56 am, March 29th, 2025 - 27 comments

The Coalition is utterly disrespectful to the people.

NZ Science is in Big Trouble

Written By: - Date published: 5:36 pm, March 13th, 2025 - 12 comments

Science and tertiary education are being ignored in NZ, which is just dumb.

The Chinese Shadowboxing Show at Sea

Written By: - Date published: 4:42 pm, March 1st, 2025 - 21 comments

The World is at war and the level of mind-control is mind-blowing.

The Second Major Offensive of Neoliberalism in New Zealand Since the 80s

Written By: - Date published: 8:00 am, February 2nd, 2025 - 28 comments

The Coalition is fighting a multi-front blitzkrieg to entrench neoliberal hegemony in NZ.

Labour’s Long-Sightedness and the Opposition’s Opprobrious Omniabsence

Written By: - Date published: 4:05 pm, January 11th, 2025 - 52 comments

New Zealand is sleepwalking to an unmitigated constitutional, societal, and environmental disaster under the smokescreen of culture wars.

The real purpose of the Ministry for Regulation

Written By: - Date published: 5:54 pm, December 14th, 2024 - 31 comments

ACT is finishing what Roger Douglas started 40 years ago.

Luxon is deconstructing the plane while flying it

Written By: - Date published: 5:57 pm, September 25th, 2024 - 8 comments

What I’m saying to you is that Chris Luxon has never crashed a country before.

Unions are still relevant

Written By: - Date published: 5:50 pm, September 7th, 2024 - 26 comments

Unions have fought for the rights of employees in the past, present, and future.

Culture wars are a diversion from addressing class struggles

Written By: - Date published: 2:03 pm, August 24th, 2024 - 25 comments

Ditch the NZ culture wars if we really want challenge status quo.

When you remove nuts & bolts, things tend to fall over

Written By: - Date published: 11:51 am, June 22nd, 2024 - 21 comments

Nuts and loose screws are holding together this callous coalition government.

Democracy in Dire Straits

Written By: - Date published: 7:27 pm, June 20th, 2024 - 59 comments

Like an auto-immune disease, democracy can attack itself with dire consequences.

Fast-Track to Fast-Fail

Written By: - Date published: 7:33 pm, June 8th, 2024 - 35 comments

Only a fool insists on furiously flogging a dead horse to go faster on the track.

National’s irksome incompetence is inexcusable

Written By: - Date published: 6:05 am, June 5th, 2024 - 11 comments

When the fabric of lies unravels the gaslighting increases.

The National Party has a pattern of broken election promises

Written By: - Date published: 6:02 pm, June 3rd, 2024 - 9 comments

The National Party has created a new slogan: give New Zealanders a break … in promises!

Putting Politics over People

Written By: - Date published: 2:00 pm, June 1st, 2024 - 24 comments

National’s breaking of its election promise to fund 13 cancer treatments is cruel beyond words.

Are we drifting away or falling apart?

Written By: - Date published: 1:53 pm, May 18th, 2024 - 16 comments

What is the antidote for our socio-economic problems and how do we deal with this coalition government?

Coffee and Cigarettes

Written By: - Date published: 2:20 pm, February 3rd, 2024 - 12 comments

Coffee and Cigarettes is an in-depth study of the human condition by Jim Jarmusch.