Showing posts with label Inequality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Inequality. Show all posts
Thursday, 6 October 2022

Pressure Towards The Mean: Do We Really Want To Abolish Streaming?

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Levelling Down: What will happen when streaming is no more? Will the children of New Zealand emerge from the public education system with th...
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Thursday, 27 January 2022

Accidentally Pandering To The Rich – On Purpose.

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Glad You Liked It! In a nutshell, what Bernard Hickey’s Kaka podcast seems to be saying is that in an unabashedly capitalist nation, a gover...
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Thursday, 18 February 2021

In The Know: Making Sense Of Labour’s Inaction.

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"I know what you're not thinking!" Thanks to their polling agency and the participants in its focus-groups, the Labour leaders...
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Tuesday, 28 January 2014

No Speeches On The State Of The Capitalist System

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State of the System: What is it about Capitalism that allows so much to be denied to so many by so few? None of our political leaders ...
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Wednesday, 1 January 2014

"The Defining Challenge Of Our Time"

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Progressive Populism: Barack Obama's promise of collective empowerment was crucial to his 2008 election victory. On 4 December he s...
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Tuesday, 21 May 2013

Child Poverty: The Manifestation Of Parental Sin?

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Simple Message - Contradictory Response: In the minds of many conservative New Zealanders a battle rages between their instinctive urge ...
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Sunday, 9 August 2009

The Politics of Envy

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Sinful Longing: To maintain the economic, social and political hierarchies of structurally unequal societies, envy is cast as a deadly polit...
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