Written By: - Date published: 10:17 am, September 2nd, 2019 - 21 comments
Not so much Zero Carbon as Zero Shits. While National look set to monkey-wrench our climate legislation, we can remember that the real power in addressing the climate crisis lies outside of parliament.
Written By: - Date published: 9:13 am, May 24th, 2019 - 59 comments
It has been pretty boring watching the coverage of religious conservatives trying to present a meaningful political presence for the next election. Haven’t the NZ Herald’s puff piece journalists ever read about the history of religious parties in this “no religion” state? They’re fractional parties incapable of getting to 5% without assistance, and they don’t grow the vote for the right.
Written By: - Date published: 2:41 pm, April 19th, 2019 - 31 comments
The pace of politics of transformation is glacial but it is unstoppable.
Written By: - Date published: 7:00 am, April 15th, 2019 - 119 comments
Silencing dissonant voices only leads to more and stronger dissonant voices and further radicalisation.
Written By: - Date published: 2:57 pm, February 16th, 2019 - 32 comments
The National Party is a sad, confused, slightly dazed white old man behind the curtain.
Written By: - Date published: 6:55 am, December 16th, 2018 - 216 comments
Welcome to TS’s Sunday think piece. It’s a blank sheet, a tabula rasa, waiting for your thoughts on the future and How To Get There.
Written By: - Date published: 1:25 pm, November 19th, 2018 - 26 comments
To jump or not to jump? Is “not jumping” about to mean “left behind”?
Written By: - Date published: 11:53 am, November 18th, 2018 - 42 comments
London’s bridges were closing down.
Written By: - Date published: 1:17 pm, November 13th, 2018 - 71 comments
That’s the big question ‘big’ people are asking these days.
Written By: - Date published: 6:04 pm, November 9th, 2018 - 29 comments
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
Written By: - Date published: 10:29 am, November 2nd, 2018 - 215 comments
More than that, it needs to be torn down before it makes a serious bid at flight.
Written By: - Date published: 5:17 pm, October 30th, 2018 - 97 comments
When orders collapse, it doesn’t have to be a bad thing. We’re making it a bad thing.
Written By: - Date published: 11:20 am, October 26th, 2018 - 86 comments
Shade it any colour you like…
Written By: - Date published: 11:37 am, September 19th, 2018 - 33 comments
In short, I think not.
Written By: - Date published: 6:44 pm, September 13th, 2018 - 82 comments
Oh dear. The Winston Peters led governing coalition has completely collapsed and thank God Simon Bridges is there to pick up the pieces. I warned you this would happen! And look! Over there … the sky is falling. Falling, I tells ya!
Written By: - Date published: 2:38 pm, August 8th, 2018 - 66 comments
What is the difference between Don Brash and Stefan Molyneux and Lauren Southern. And why should Brash’s right to freedom of expression be greater than Monyneux’s or Southern’s?
Written By: - Date published: 8:30 am, August 7th, 2018 - 172 comments
The Left predicted the death of neoliberalism after the global financial crisis of 2008. But since then inequality has increased and new right nationalism is on the ascendancy. How should the left respond?
Written By: - Date published: 11:12 am, July 30th, 2018 - 109 comments
Yeah, okay, it’s a couple of thoughts on the Canadian jokers and what is and isn’t happening in response to their stuff.
Written By: - Date published: 4:45 pm, July 7th, 2018 - 98 comments
The extent and limits of current politics.
Written By: - Date published: 6:02 am, June 19th, 2018 - 113 comments
Take a look around the room you’re in. Or if you’re out and about and reading this on some mobile device, then take a look around the next room you enter. Closely.
Written By: - Date published: 11:57 am, June 2nd, 2018 - 54 comments
Avoiding meat and dairy is ‘single biggest way’ to reduce your impact on Earth according to a Guardian headline.
Yeah. No it’s not.
Written By: - Date published: 11:27 am, March 19th, 2018 - 37 comments
Facebook, Putin, poisoning and Ghouta have all given fairly extensive media coverage of late. Nothing much on Afrin. Afrin has just fallen to terrorists backed by Turkey.
Update: the photo used for this post is of the The Queer Insurrection and Liberation Army (TQILA), who are part of the International Revolutionary People’s Guerrilla Forces fighting in Syria.
Written By: - Date published: 6:21 am, February 5th, 2018 - 111 comments
Stephanie Rodgers’ progressive communications analysis of how Marama Davidson is hitting all the right notes.
Written By: - Date published: 3:58 pm, January 21st, 2018 - 46 comments
Sometimes, someone just knocks it out the park. Viola Davis just knocked it out the park. (h/t Carolyn_nth)
Written By: - Date published: 9:44 am, January 20th, 2018 - 12 comments
On how states in conflict, have seemingly and nevertheless, managed to share in the likely or possible creation of one common goal.
Written By: - Date published: 6:39 am, December 9th, 2017 - 15 comments
When history buries treasures, those treasures don’t have to remain buried.
Written By: - Date published: 8:44 am, December 2nd, 2017 - 45 comments
How’s about private tenants in New Zealand were warm, dry and secure? Too big an ask?
Written By: - Date published: 6:10 am, November 22nd, 2017 - 46 comments
The best state for human nature…
Written By: - Date published: 6:33 am, November 15th, 2017 - 69 comments
What does it mean to look beyond capitalism? We do not yet know what it will look like because we have not yet ventured out from our caves.
Written By: - Date published: 5:27 pm, November 12th, 2017 - 29 comments
“It means protecting and growing our rights as people, not just as economic units, health clients, “clients” of any kind.”
A strong start by Willow-Jean Prime.
Written By: - Date published: 6:54 am, November 4th, 2017 - 113 comments
“This is an incredible opportunity for the Green Party to make that good, green change that we’ve talked about – since ages ago!”
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