If Auckland as a city wish to retain representative samples of our past, then we should concentrate on how to preserve those rather than trying to deny the migration that increases its population by something like 50 thousand people per year. This is a working city – not a museum.
There’s a wonderful fiction still propelling the world that the 21st century will bring an ever-expanding arc of freedom and prosperity to the vast majority of humanity but the reality seems to be anything but.
In the story that keeps rolling on, Mossack Fonseca founders arrested for money laundering.
Constructive and positive ‘conservative’ organisations everywhere should be outraged at the way the use of ‘traditional family values’ gets corrupted, and they should be doing more to speak out against it.
Bloomberg magazine has highlighted how foreign trusts are damaging New Zealand’s reputation and are being used for criminal activity.
The stay on Trump’s Muslim Ban is upheld. He took it about as well as you would expect.
All the “nobody” people.
The Herald informs us that Key is going on the speaking circuit and will go back into finance (not that he ever left). Like John Howard before him, he also intends to carry on chairing the International Democratic Union of right-wing parties. Not a surprise.
University of Queensland Professor John Quiggin, author of Zombie Economics, will speak on this topic for the Fabian Society in Wellington on Monday 13th and Auckland Thursday 16th of this month. All welcome, details and registration inside. Will be interesting.
Ad wonders how left wing Trump supporters are now feeling.
If you can’t punish the Liberal power-holders in society directly, what do you do?
With these deep divisions exposed the party is clearly in total disarray.
So apparently the PM managed to get through a 15 minute call without “upsetting” Trump. That’s where we set the bar these days.
What to do when your erstwhile ally loses the plot?
How does the left discuss the immigration debate so that it can counter the anti immigration sentiments fostered by the likes of Donald Trump, Theresa May and Malcolm Turnbull?
Compassionate conservatism in action. No wonder English was so tame in his criticism of Trump’s Muslim ban.
Diplomacy in the age of Trump is going to be a real blast. Just ask Australia.
A touching cartoon message to Bill English on why he should increase New Zealand’s refugee intake.
Trump goes full fascist and fires the acting Attorney General for daring to question his Muslim Ban order.
One border and a world of difference away…
Understanding shock events is part of the solution.
Hope and action are also part of the solution.
Killed in the USA?
The PM may not know where he stands but the Mayor of Wellington does.
I/S at No Right Turn writes on a political refugee – from Australia.
World leaders are condemning Trump’s Muslim ban. What does the PM of our country have to say on the matter?
Welcome to the new America.
Journos have been looking at how Peter Thiel gained citizenship. Not because he shouldn’t have been made a citizen. But it was done without any public notice using a special section of the immigration act. That reeks of a corruption route by a minister or officials. Reasons need to be made public for this and other decisions done this way.
Donald Trump’s ascendancy to power presents the left with the chance of showing that progressive politics is a much better choice than the alternative.
Being human, Linda Tirado, and lessons for New Zealand.
The Bush Blair “special relationship” was a geopolitical disaster of epic proportions. Get ready for Round 2, Trump May.
This is what an unfettered right-wing government looks like.
Peter Thiel’s fast tracking of his citizenship application needs some explaining by the Government.
How do we feel about NZ becoming a lifeboat for the super-rich to run out on the problems that they created?
“Donald Trump signs anti-abortion executive order surrounded by men”
