Bowalley Road

Ruminations of an Old New Zealander

Wednesday, 8 August 2018

“Who Are You Calling ‘Mate’, Mate?”

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Newspeak? It is Washington’s new “Indo-Pacific” strategy, that is driving the current “Century of Mateship” propaganda exercise out of C...
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Thursday, 2 August 2018

The Politics Of Cannabis Law Reform.

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Is Cannabis Prohibition About To End? No, the thing that wrong with the current picture of cannabis law reform is that Labour isn’t in it...
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Tuesday, 31 July 2018

Whoever The Greens Have Sold Their Soul To – It Isn’t Winston.

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"Have I Got A Deal For You!" If, in the course of debating the Waka-Jumping Bill, the Greens really have forfeited their soul,...
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Sunday, 29 July 2018

The Neoliberal State Defended By, Of All People, The Left.

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Unusual Packaging: The most piquant irony of the ongoing free speech controversy is the role being played by the extremities of the New ...
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America Is Not Experiencing A "Trial Run" For Fascism.

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Is Trump A Demagogue? Yes. Is He A Fascist? No. The defining ideological objective of fascism is the wholesale substitution of the righ...
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Sunday, 22 July 2018

Large American Pot, Meet Small Chinese Kettle.

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Disharmonious Fists: China: the country which, unlike the United States, has been willing to open her markets to New Zealand’s agricultu...
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Saturday, 21 July 2018

Balancing Fake American Friends Against Real Chinese Interests.

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Interesting Times: Henry Kissinger warned that the United States had no friends – only interests. Attempting to curry America’s friendshi...
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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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