Bowalley Road

Ruminations of an Old New Zealander

Showing posts with label Social Liberalism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Social Liberalism. Show all posts
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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Friday, 29 October 2021

The Majority Is Always Wrong.

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“No Minister”: Sir Humphrey Appleby’s working proposition was that government was far too important to be left to politicians – let alone th...
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Wednesday, 11 December 2019

Delusional And Irrational: The Rise Of Paranoid Politics In New Zealand.

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Sheer Loopiness: Many of those expressing bemusement at the antics of these #turnardern effacers, were convinced that they were yet anot...
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Saturday, 11 February 2017

Breaking Point.

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Parting Company: Little’s reaching out to Greg O’Connor and Willie Jackson – both of them social conservatives – was a test of whether ...
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Tuesday, 15 December 2015

Changing Sides.

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Nixon's Southern Strategy: Persuading White, former Democratic Party voters to change sides and vote Republican in 1972 proved a rel...
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Friday, 13 November 2015

Of Dreams And Nightmares.

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Bread-and-Butter-Land: Andrew Little's keynote speech to Labour's 2015 annual conference took "Rebuilding the New Zealand ...
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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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