“Why, then, are so many leftists coming out on the streets in support of a Palestinian religious/political regime drawn from a movement bearing a more than passing resemblance to Brian Tamaki’s?” – Chris Trotter (@BowalleyRoad)
“In her pitch to Green members Swarbrick hints that this power may be sufficient to bring the whole rotten, planet-destroying system crashing down” – Chris Trotter
“…the emancipatory movement cannot accommodate those who are only able to celebrate one group’s freedom by taking it from another.” – Chris Trotter
“Certainly, it will not take very long for Labour’s leadership deficit to be cruelly exposed by the surfeit of political leadership to Labour’s left.” – Chris Trotter
“Imagine the reaction of the Disinformation Project if they had found a video presentation promoting right-wing disinformation and hate on such a scale. A video dripping with Islamophobic hate in the same way Pere’s drips with annihilationist hatred of Israel.” – Chris Trotter
“Problematically, the Greens, like their Values Party predecessor, are a post-scarcity political movement, driven less by class than by environmental and cultural concerns. ” – Chris Trotter
The thing about the liberal temperament is that, for some on the left, it comes across as just a little too relaxed. – Chris Trotter