Bowalley Road
Ruminations of an Old New Zealander
Saturday, 10 June 2023
Unequal To The Task?
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A Dark Day: More than 40 years of affirming New Zealanders’ Right to Protest had left the NZ Police without the training or the equipment t...
The Numbers That Matter.
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Aristocratic Arithmetic: From whence comes the notion of “coming of age”. For many centuries, this was something men did at the age of 21. W...
Tuesday, 6 June 2023
Corrupted Generations.
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Socrates Takes The Rap: “Corrupting the youth”, the Athenian philosopher Socrates was convicted and executed for this offence more than 2,4...
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Monday, 5 June 2023
The Extinction Of Rebellion.
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Not Even Close, Comrades! Occupy made it all the way to New Zealand, but its fate here did not differ substantially from its fate everywhere...
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134 Days Out.
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Take Me Home: Bowalley Road, North Otago. The long gravel road after which Chris Trotter’s blog is named. Near the road’s end is the farm w...
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Wednesday, 31 May 2023
Luxon’s Lack Of Political “Muscle Memory”.
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Slow Learner: Effective leaders develop a political “muscle memory” of their own. The National Party should get one. SPEAKING IN PUBLIC to...
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Sunday, 28 May 2023
The Persistence Of Racism: Is the Anti-Racist Cause Winning or Losing?
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With Open Arms: Is it at all reasonable to suppose that a colonial society in which whites traditionally occupied all the upper rungs of the...
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