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Ruminations of an Old New Zealander
About Me
- Chris Trotter
- Chris Trotter has spent most of his adult life either engaging in or writing about politics. He was the founding editor of The New Zealand Political Review (1992-2005) and in 2007 authored No Left Turn, a political history of New Zealand. Living in Auckland with his wife and daughter, Chris describes himself as an “Old New Zealander” – i.e. someone who remembers what the country was like before Rogernomics. He has created this blog as an archive for his published work and an outlet for his more elegiac musings. It takes its name from Bowalley Road, which runs past the North Otago farm where he spent the first nine years of his life. Enjoy.
Bowalley Road Rules
The blogosphere tends to be a very noisy, and all-too-often a very abusive, place. I intend Bowalley Road to be a much quieter, and certainly a more respectful, place.
So, if you wish your comments to survive the moderation process, you will have to follow the Bowalley Road Rules.
These are based on two very simple principles:
Courtesy and Respect.
Comments which are defamatory, vituperative, snide or hurtful will be removed, and the commentators responsible permanently banned.
Anonymous comments will not be published. Real names are preferred. If this is not possible, however, commentators are asked to use a consistent pseudonym.
Comments which are thoughtful, witty, creative and stimulating will be most welcome, becoming a permanent part of the Bowalley Road discourse.
However, I do add this warning. If the blog seems in danger of being over-run by the usual far-Right suspects, I reserve the right to simply disable the Comments function, and will keep it that way until the perpetrators find somewhere more appropriate to vent their collective spleen.
Blog Archive
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2016
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December
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- 2016: Annus Horribilis
- Christmas 2016
- The Eavesdropper.
- A Stranger Kind Of Magick.
- Playing Sergeant Pepper.
- In Defence Of Conservative Leftism.
- Sinking In Donald Trump's Swamp.
- The Dangers of Political Adrenalin
- Nikki Kaye Returns To Save The Day.
- The No. 8 Wire Prime Minister.
- John Key Bound For The IMF. Real News Or Fake News?
- Winning Mt Roskill The Old-Fashioned Way.
- What A Way To Go! Some Initial Thoughts On John Ke...
- Prime Minister John Key Resigns.
- “Die Boomers, Die!” – A Dispatch From The Future.
- Banana Split: David Seymour’s Latest Declaration o...
- Looking Forward To … Extinction?
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10 comments:
Merry Xmas to you and yours Chris, thanks for the blog, Polly
And a safe and merry Christmas to you too, Chris.
Compliments of the season to everyone
Thanks Chris Cheers David J S
I've read every post on Bowalley this year. By and large it's been great stuff.
Chris, all power to your arm.
Merry Christmas and a kind wish for 2017.
Merry Christmas Chris. Hope you have many more.
All the best for 2017
Chris, thanks for your blog. Always a worthwhile read.
I hope you and your family enjoy a peaceful and merry Christmas.
All the best.
Hairy Mistress to all wandering down this country road. May 2017 bring you all well-deserved good health and happiness.
Great work again Chris. Much appreciated forum. Best wishes to yourself and family.
Bowalley is always a good read whether one agrees or not with the sentiments of each piece, many of us fellow humans tend to have a short term focus, when to make sense of world political affairs some knowledge of at least many hundreds of years is necessary–which you regularly provide Chris
and do keep going, you might ‘pen’ the perfect column yet!!
Seasonal greetings
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