Bowalley Road

Ruminations of an Old New Zealander

Sunday, 31 December 2017

Dead Reckonings.

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Pub Talk: Mickey, Norm and David were sitting at their usual corner table under a framed black-and-white photograph of Karl Marx. Karl, h...
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2017: Metiria’s Speech And Jacinda’s Wild Ride

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A Two-Faced Year: The “Jacindamania” phenomenon was a very different proposition from the quasi-revolutionary call-to-arms enunciated by...
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Saturday, 23 December 2017

The Story Goes Ever On … Merry Christmas To All Bowalley Road Readers!

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The road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began Now far ahead the road has gone And I must follow if I can - J. R....
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Jacinda And The Bard.

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Always The Right Words: When words fail you, Shakespeare's are always there to say what you want to say - only more eloquently. Our ...
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Friday, 22 December 2017

Long Live The Sun Queen!

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Sunny Ways: I have participated in, and written about, politics for close to 40 years, but in all that time I can honestly say I have nev...
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Tuesday, 19 December 2017

When "Applied Christianity" Becomes "Applied Lunacy".

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"Feed My Sheep": At some point in just about every Sunday service, Christian congregations recite the Lord’s Prayer. God’s wil...
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Sunday, 17 December 2017

Governing For The “Other Half” Of New Zealand.

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Up Where We Belong? In the end, the promise to be a “transformational” government is a promise to put the need of the many ahead of the g...
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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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