The oil crisis: what we should be doing now
Responses to the government’s National Fuel Plan.
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The Mount Maunganui disaster and climate responsibility
Bryce Edwards’ piece and key mainstream media articles on how the Maunganui disaster happened are the start of a long, complex conversation about New Zealand’s precarity and the urgent need to change.
Pagani and Edwards do not understand the working class
Bryce Edwards and Josie Pagani have suggested that there should be more working class in Parliament. But the quality of their analysis leaves a lot to be desired.
Countering Conspiracy – the Green Party is not in a Civil War
Trust in academics is on a downslide, as is trust in general. This is exacerbated by academics hiding a personal-political agenda when they dabble in the public domain.
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?
The Greens’ attack ad
The Greens recent ad mocking Simon Bridges has attracted some strong criticism. But is it justified?
Bryce Edwards: Just another political simpleton
I can only describe Bryce Edwards spin about what a “The Standard” post means is that it is complete bullshit. This site is not the editorial and political monolith. But what else do you expect from a political simpleton with a limited understanding of actual debate. Like Mike Hosking, he is far more suited to a broadcast medium where he doesn’t get robust debate on their inane explanations of real world politics.
Bridges and National keep digging further on Leakgate
A review of events over the past two weeks about the strange case of the leaked travel expense information, the expensive inquiry and the depressed MP.
Is youth the new political divide?
There is evidence in the United Kingdom and in New Zealand that youth and not class may be the new political divide.
Dirty politics in Dunedin
No. Not Pete George. Instead Andrew Geddis appears to be up to his neck in the mire of organising “Debating ‘Dirty Politics’: Media, Politics and Law”, at a ‘scholarly’ debate on Friday from 1pm-4pm. It is a long-winded scholarly debate inside work hours. But it will be streamed on youtube and hopefully not only live.
OU Vote Chat programme goes sour
So it appears the intended non-partisan deeper engagement with politicians that is the Otago University Vote Chat has been taken over by the National Party.
Bryce Edwards needs to find a clue
Here’s a gem from his latest NZ Politics Daily.
Images of the GCSB scandal
Check out Bryce Edward’s latest images of the GCSB scandal…
Edwards: Waitangi – A barometer for racial tensions
Bryce Edwards has a useful roundup of the goings on at Waitangi.
Something rotten in the state…
As an outsider watching the struggles in the Labour Party unfold, I am becoming increasingly despondent about the state of Left wing politics in NZ. Right now, NZ, and those of us who party vote Green/Mana, require a strong, democratic and solidly left wing Labour Party.
Go read Gordon Campbell
Yesterday the ‘sphere was all a-twitter with reaction to John Armstrong’s rant at “parasitical bloggers”. On this and many other topics, do yourself a favour, go read Gordon Campbell.