Category: Politics
Herald has eight left columnists and one right one: Redux
Over at KiwiBlog, David Farrar has done a seriously low-effort post. Usually I wouldn’t demean myself by responding but I’m involved in the post, and it was such a pile of wrong that I couldn’t help myself.
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Hour of Power: A new podcast
So in an effort to spread myself as far out into the internet as I can, I’m one third of a podcast with Morning Report’s Susie Ferguson and the Civilian’s Ben Uffindell.
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And we are living in a neolib world and I am a neolib girl
Do you know what the Phillips Curve is? I didn’t. I mean I knew the basics of its output, but I didn’t know it had a name. It’s the relationship between inflation and unemployment.
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The case for Democrats to be obstructionist
Over in the dumpster fire that is the United States Government, Trump has announced his Supreme Court nominee, one Justice Gorsuch. A known Christian conservative. This appointment is to replace the late Justice Scalia who died in February last year.
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Between a Trump and a Russian place
I saw an article yesterday that came from early December about the current intelligence community and its panic over Donald Trump. The article, from Reuters, says that Canada is concerned about Trump’s comments around using torture and other ethical atrocities as well as his ties to Russia
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Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away
So who saw that one coming? No-one. Big news.
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When is a door not a door? When it’s ajar.
Since *that* election I have read myriad reasons why it played out the way it did
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Erewhon: Where everyone is lazy and does drugs
RadioNZ (sorry RNZ) has a remarkable story up about New Zealand’s high level of immigration, and how this high level of immigration is actually bringing in a lot of low-skilled workers
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Eats gravel, shits highways
Over the weekend, on TV3’s ‘The Nation‘, the Wellington Mayoral candidates got together and had a shitfest.
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A complete abdication of responsibility
It was a fascinating day yesterday, watching the Brexit results come in and seeing how divided United Kingdom had become.
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A Pox On Both Your Houses
If there’s one euphemism I’m sick of hearing it’s “property investment”.
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Why Donald Trump is good for democracy
Hello friends, I’m not going to be writing a whole lot of these pieces but I thought I’d dip my toe back into the punditry land, if only for a brief swim.
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Trump, the View From Moon Zealand
For a while now I’ve wondered when exactly we should start taking seriously what is going on in US politics around Donald Trump. How foolish of me. The time is now.
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Best of the Worst
Today I’m voting to keep a flag that I’ve wanted to change since I was six.
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Peaking Into The Future
The inclusion and subsequent failure of Red Peak in the New Zealand flag referendum is a triumph of democracy; pats on the back to everyone involved.
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The American Election II: Who’s Cruz?
We all know somebody like Ted Cruz. You know, that guy who ran for class president every year?
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The American Election: Trump For Dummies
It’s unlikely that New Zealanders, Americans, or anyone else in the world will be looking at President Trump in 2016.
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