Bowalley Road

Ruminations of an Old New Zealander

Wednesday, 8 February 2017

Conflicting Priorities: Has Poto Williams just cost Labour the 2017 Election?

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Queen Of Fools, Or Pawn In Someone Else's Game? Poto Williams' very public intervention against Willie Jackson has inflicted con...
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Tuesday, 7 February 2017

Drawing Together, Not Breaking Away.

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The Birth Of A Nation: On 6 February, New Zealanders celebrate not a severance of political ties, but their creation. The Treaty of Wai...
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Tuesday, 31 January 2017

Endless Cycles.

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Mouth Of The Mob: At the end of the Ancient Greek historian, Polybius', anacyclotic cycle of political decline, a demagogue, more s...
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Friday, 27 January 2017

Political Paradoxes.

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The “Pollution Paradox”: According to Guardian columnist George Monbiot: “The more polluting a company is, the more money it must spend...
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Thursday, 26 January 2017

Only A Matter Of Time: American Fascism Awaits Its Marching Orders.

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Trump's Angry Acolytes: That the vector of American fascism would be a cross-class alliance of marginalised white workers and anxiou...
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Wednesday, 25 January 2017

Trumpism's Shock-Waves Will Reach New Zealand.

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Been There, Very Nearly Did That: Imagining how different this country would be if Don Brash had won the 2005 General Election makes the...
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Monday, 23 January 2017

Mastering Trumpian Arithmetic: Why, In The New Political Order, 2+2=5.

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The Calculation Of Tyranny: "If Trump’s White House is willing to lie about something as obviously, unquestionably fake as [their e...
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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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