Thursday, 13 July 2017

Is Barry Coates Serious? Are The Greens Really Willing To Trigger A Second Election Before Christmas?

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Christmas Cheer-Leader? According to Green MP, Barry Coates, if Labour attempts to form a minority coalition government with NZ First al...
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Wednesday, 12 July 2017

Damning The Dam.

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Dam Democracy 1982:   Thirty-five years on, and the National Party has been making threatening noises about executing another constituti...
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Tuesday, 11 July 2017

Neither Principled, Nor Pragmatic. What’s Eating The Greens?

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Why, Metiria, Why? In light of the Greens’ recent ideological contortions on the subject of immigration, it is possible to interpret Me...
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Monday, 10 July 2017

No Jeremy Corbyn

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Few So Beloved By The Many: Jeremy Corbyn addresses the Glastonbury crowd. The British Labour Party looms so much larger now than it di...
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Saturday, 8 July 2017

Populism With A Smile: The Fourth In A Series Of Articles Examining The Four Main Political Parties.

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And A Smile On The Face Of The Tiger: New Zealand has been fortunate in its political encounters with populism. Whether manifested in t...
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Friday, 7 July 2017

Allies On The Inside: The Third In A Series Of Articles Looking At The Four Main Political Parties.

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Inside Man? Green Party Co-Leader, James Shaw: For the best part of a decade the Greens have been wrestling with the Outside/Insider di...
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Thursday, 6 July 2017

Labour Breaking Bad: The Second In A Series of Articles On The Four Main Political Parties.

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"Just when I thought I was out ..." The New Zealand Labour Party, like the New York Mafia, is a seething cauldron of thwarted...
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