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.
Politics
liberalism
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.
National’s factional problem
National’s basic problem is that it has three discrete factions, christian conservatives, urban liberals and the country grouping. And no coherent vision to reconcile these totally disparate groupings.
Bryce Edwards: The State of the political left (in the Age of Outrage)
What role has the political left played in helping create some of the changes to the current way politics is debated?
Trifold Politics and Boundaries
Over the past year I’ve outlined in the comments an alternative triplet political model to the standard left/right description that’s the usual default. […]
Shattering
When things fall apart, the disintegration can reach such a speed that it’s hard to keep an eye on everything that’s happening. Is liberalism on the cusp?
Back in the U.S.S.A.
The onslaught launched against Trump from sections of corporate media and liberal institutions will look as nothing next to the unified onslaught that will be unleashed against a President Sanders.
The Missing Millions
Millions of people and an entire region of the UK left out of polling calculations….
The Liberal Democrats
Nick Kelly on the Liberal Democrats’ prospects in the upcoming UK elections.
The Race to be the Democratic Party’s Presidential nominee
Breaking it down.
“For the good of all, the poor come first.”
Those were the words spoken by Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) during yesterday’s Presidential inauguration where he promised to end Mexico’s disastrous neo-liberalism.
Worrisome Centrist Clowns.
I don’t generally have a problem with clowns. But these clowns are dangerous. When mainstream media promotes centrist clowns promoting fascist clowns….
Disestablish the establishment.
Politics can be soap, or politics can be real. This post comments on some of the soap and offers an example of something that’s real
A Democratic Cakewalk.
Cenk Uygur might be said to have “skin in the game” when it comes to the US Mid-terms, and given that much of this post revolves around, or bounces from his commentary and analysis – which may not be quite as objective as he thinks – that should be borne in mind when reading this post.
KiwiBuild doesn’t fly.
More than that, it needs to be torn down before it makes a serious bid at flight.
Brazil, Brexit, Trump…with more to come.
When orders collapse, it doesn’t have to be a bad thing. We’re making it a bad thing.
Media Thriving on its Own Shit.
When purveyors of propaganda come to believe their own spin and start entertaining really quite idiotic conspiracy theories and abandoning any pretense of being in possession of rational thought, then we’ve got a problem.
Censorship again.
I’m not a great fan of George Monbiot. And Alex Jones is rubbish. But …
Will there be a Brexit?
In short, I think not.
Ardern and Pelosi.
There is something very wrong with “our” media when it takes a stand-up comedian to alert people to important stuff. But anyway…
Enough Bullshit!
White South African farm murders.
Finkelstein on Dame Hodge
“…if any – if any – of the rules that are now being implemented in the Labour Party have any meaning whatsoever… the first person who should be booted out of the Labour Party is Dame Hodge.” – Finkelstein.
Propaganda Wars.
No-one reading this blog would willfully offer support to an ideology that’s killing people, right?
The Pied Piper
If we’re living in a global village, is the name of the village Hamelin?
Corporatism.
Hand in hand with “compassionate liberalism”.
Just a quick thought…
Yeah, okay, it’s a couple of thoughts on the Canadian jokers and what is and isn’t happening in response to their stuff.
A right, Left problem
A post suggesting that the traditional descriptive lens of “left and right” isn’t up to capturing current political realities.
Free Speech.
It’s a principle.
Smile!
The extent and limits of current politics.
Liberalism Uber Alles
If the political class think liberalism has failed, then why is it that the process of killing off NZ Post is approaching completion?
New World Disorder.
Liberalism was meant to be the New World Order and even (so the briefly celebrated Fukiyama reckoned anyway) an End to History. Big stuff then. But it seems the placid and complacent consensus is fraying round the edges.
Strange Democracy.
Quietly mulling on the difference between foreign interference (malign) and influence (benign).
Fudget for Austerity
Some proposals on why we just got the budget we did.
The Centre, the Left and UK local elections
Thoughts on a resurgent left and a collapsing centre.
Professional identity-Why it matters or Why we are being screwed by the Government
A personal perspective on the repercussions of the government’s current approach to Social Work and Social Workers.
An Opportunity Missed? A Failure to Listen? And Whose Advice was Privileged?
The conclusion that I am left with is the bureaucrats have once again gained control of the social work profession and want to manage social work and social workers under a neoliberal managerialist ideology.
Kieran O’Donoghue, Associate Professor in Social Work, Massey University