Bowalley Road

Ruminations of an Old New Zealander

Monday, 7 July 2025

Legislating For Liberty.

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Revolutionary Intentions:   The Regulatory Standards Bill sounds like one of those pieces of legislation debated on a dreary Thursday aftern...
Thursday, 19 June 2025

Highway Twenty-Nine: Ageing Boomers, Laurie & Les, Talk Politics.

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“It’s in the air, mate. Anger, cruelty, bitter rage. We’re taking it in with every breath, like some colourless, odourless, poisonous gas. B...
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Wednesday, 4 June 2025

Making Deserts.

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Berlin 1945/Gaza 2025 “T hey make a desert, and they call it peace. ”   - Tacitus 56-117CE UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER doesn’t leave those deman...
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Friday, 30 May 2025

Mother Countries and Sentinel Sons.

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Patriotic Appeal: Zealandia never really caught on. If asked, most Kiwis would scratch their heads and shrug their shoulders. “Never heard o...
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Monday, 5 May 2025

The Woke War On the Cultural Conduits of Capitalism.

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WHAT IS WOKE MORALITY? How does it work? More to the point, can it be countered without making use of the same arguments and justifications...
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Wednesday, 23 April 2025

What’s on the Label -vs- What’s in the Tin.

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Would our political parties pass muster under the Fair Trading Act? WHAT IF OUR POLITICAL PARTIES were subject to the Fair Trading Act? Wha...
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Wednesday, 16 April 2025

Our Rough Beast.

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And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? W.B. Yeats, The Second Coming , 1921 ALL OVER THE ...
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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.
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