A Faulty Handbrake Analogy
Pulling the handbrake in a moving car is not a smart way of preventing a breach of traffic rules and can cause chaos, confusion, and collision.
Incognito
Why is everybody talking about tax and fiscal holes?
The most important issue for New Zealanders is inflation and the cost-of-living yet National and its Dirty Workers want us to talk and think about tax all the time.
To overhang or not to overhang, that’s the question
National has a snowball’s chance in hell of creating an overhang for its nefarious need to lead Coalition Mark II.
Politicians are like adulterers
Voter beware – some politicians are pathological populists who cannot be trusted.
The framing of Chris Hipkins’ Auckland speech – read what you like
What you read in the media is not what happened.
National’s incredulous plan for challenging times
An ideological reflex to an economic challenge has severe limitations by design.
David Seymour wants to snuff out bottlenecks and barriers to our response to global fuel uncertainty
David Seymour is supplying misleading ideas on how to boost our fuel resilience.
Is the Government’s $50 a week a vote winner?
The Government’s targeted fuel support is pork-barrelling.
Neoliberalism is anathema to effective crisis management
Don’t hold on to an old umbrella in a wuthering storm.
Should job hiring be fair and transparent?
Honi soit qui mal y pense.
This National-led Government is the best mis-manager of the economy
When the coalition is treating the economy as a game, are they having fun?
Mapping Carney’s speech to our MMP Politics
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
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
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
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
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
Nicola Willis’ Budget is bad for growth and a Big throwback unfit for NZ.
The Coalition Continues to Defund Science
Another science fund bites the dust in New Zealand.
Why Write (and Read)?
Art has political power and every voice counts.
Misleading Billboards Are a Threat to Electoral Integrity
Misleading the public never is good for politics.
When Government does not want to listen to the people
The Coalition is utterly disrespectful to the people.
NZ Science is in Big Trouble
Science and tertiary education are being ignored in NZ, which is just dumb.
The Chinese Shadowboxing Show at Sea
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
The Coalition is fighting a multi-front blitzkrieg to entrench neoliberal hegemony in NZ.
Labour’s Long-Sightedness and the Opposition’s Opprobrious Omniabsence
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
ACT is finishing what Roger Douglas started 40 years ago.
Luxon is deconstructing the plane while flying it
What I’m saying to you is that Chris Luxon has never crashed a country before.
Unions are still relevant
Unions have fought for the rights of employees in the past, present, and future.
Culture wars are a diversion from addressing class struggles
Ditch the NZ culture wars if we really want challenge status quo.
When you remove nuts & bolts, things tend to fall over
Nuts and loose screws are holding together this callous coalition government.
Democracy in Dire Straits
Like an auto-immune disease, democracy can attack itself with dire consequences.
Fast-Track to Fast-Fail
Only a fool insists on furiously flogging a dead horse to go faster on the track.
National’s irksome incompetence is inexcusable
When the fabric of lies unravels the gaslighting increases.
The National Party has a pattern of broken election promises
The National Party has created a new slogan: give New Zealanders a break … in promises!
Putting Politics over People
National’s breaking of its election promise to fund 13 cancer treatments is cruel beyond words.
Are we drifting away or falling apart?
What is the antidote for our socio-economic problems and how do we deal with this coalition government?