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Failing health, housing, policing, education, transport, and infrastructure are now directly impacting middle class lives, options and opportunities.
Failing health, housing, policing, education, transport, and infrastructure are now directly impacting middle class lives, options and opportunities.
To speak truth to power is, internally to universities, perceived to be a foolish, dangerous act.
Super Rugby is faced with a crisis – what is the pay-off between capitalism and meaning?
…we see demands for daily confessions and penance – but little if any forgiveness. We find ourselves in a society where the Spanish Inquisition meets Calvin’s Geneva.
“Hipkins’ sausage roll scoffing small town social democracy is one many New Zealanders increasingly want to leave behind, figuratively, societally and increasingly, literally.” – Mike Grimshaw
Fans are mugs and idealists all at once – we want to believe the best, the impossible- yet in doing so we are often taken for a ride by the business of the ‘team’.
For me, free speech is the right to attempt to make your views heard but it is balanced by the right to civil disobedience by those who oppose those views.
Christchurch is a white straight man in his late 40s, only high school educated, racist, sexist, anti LGBTQi, conservative, who likes to drink beer and is primarily interested in sport.
We may not yet quite be at the UK experience of ‘the university scam’ and the way too many students are conned into believing any degree (‘C’s get degrees’…), funded by deeply problematic student loans will provide them options it clearly will not, but in many ways we are not far off.