Blocking, bullying and bullshit
“Since March 2020, we’ve seen a dramatic increase in bullying from the government.” – @AuntyHeihei
7Jul 
30Jun 
Sorry, but the IHRA is about censorship
“Cheerleading illiberal laws such as a swastika ban will only confirm that trope in many people’s minds.” – @AKADaneGiraud
23Jun 
The unbearable smugness of being TOP
In the final analysis, it is clear that the smugness that surrounds TOP is not just about the tone of their rhetoric, but also the substance of their claims. – @PronouncedHare
14Jun 
Fake news goes mainstream as RNZ probe of ‘inappropriate editing’ widens
“All of this is deeply concerning and suggests a widespread culture within the RNZ digital team of editing wire service stories with their own reporting, including by adding their own inherent biases.” – @CranmerWrites
30May 
Playing hard ball with bread and butter?
To speak truth to power is, internally to universities, perceived to be a foolish, dangerous act.
29May
An Audience with a King: Corina Shields attends a DemocracyNZ event
The Matt King I’ve had the chance to meet and get to know a little bit better than some isn’t dissimilar to “Matt King- The Politician”.
23May 
Why ‘Workers Now’?
In a civilised society, these workers who do these dangerous, tedious, necessary tasks would be properly recompensed.
19May 
Burst pipes or bad history? Wellington City Council’s new role as the arbiter of international conflicts
What does it say about a council that it could be ideologically captured by a highly simplistic and selective narrative of a 75 year-old event on the other side of the world?
16May 
Capitalists beat Government at reducing smoking
New Zealand’s experiment with promoting vaping as a tool to quit smoking while avoiding crushing regulations that make electronic cigarettes difficult to purchase legally has impacted smoking levels like no regulation ever could.
15May 
Six weeks since Kellie-Jay Keen: reflections from Mana Wāhine Kōrero
Tēna koutou, tēna koutou, tēna koutou katoa. Six weeks ago, in a historic inner-city park, two & a half thousand New Zealanders descended upon a women’s rights event and drove out our guest speaker by force. The odds were twenty to one, for the mob. New Zealand wāhine were successfully prevented from talking about our […]