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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...

With The Stroke Of A Pen:   Populism, especially right-wing populism, invests all the power of an electoral/parliamentary majority in a sing...

Sic ’ em! The silver-tongued demagogue whips up the impoverished masses against those deemed responsible for both the nation’s decline and t...

Uh-uh! Not So Fast, Citizens!   The power to initiate systemic change remains where it has always been in New Zealand’s representative democ...

The Beginning of the End:   Rogernomics became the short-hand descriptor for all the radical changes that swept away New Zealand’s social-de...

The Jacinda and Ashley Show:   Before the neoliberals could come up with a plausible reason for letting thousands of their fellow citizens p...

The People ’s  H ouse:   What would it be like to live in a country where a single sermon could prick the conscience of the comfortable? Whe...

How Labour’s and National’s failure to move beyond neoliberalism has brought New Zealand to the brink of economic and cultural chaos. TO STA...

“ You talking about me? ”     The neoliberal denigration of the past was nowhere more unrelenting than in its depiction of the public servic...

Descending Into The Dark: The ideological cadres currently controlling both Labour and the Greens are forcing “justice”, “participation” an...