Bowalley Road

Ruminations of an Old New Zealander

Friday, 29 March 2019

Now And Then.

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Extraordinary Leadership: Jacinda Ardern sails serenely above the fray: resplendent in her all-conquering empathy and internationally fe...
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Thursday, 28 March 2019

The Blame Game Continues.

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The Never-Ending Lie: It is the oldest of antisemitic tropes: that behind every tragedy, every crime, stands "The Eternal Jew"...
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Tuesday, 26 March 2019

Those Who Do Not Learn The Lessons Of History …

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The Past As Prologue: The 2002 demise of the Alliance is a sad and complicated story. But, at its heart is a single, brutal, truth. Labo...
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Saturday, 23 March 2019

Keeping The Devil Down In The Hole.

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Raising Hell: As the theme-song from the TV series “The Wire” puts it: “You gotta keep the Devil way down in the hole”. Transforming the ...
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Friday, 22 March 2019

The Method In The Madness.

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An Illusory Unity? Individuals on the Far Left are insisting that our secular, humane, democracy is nothing more nor less than an evil m...
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Sunday, 17 March 2019

What Happened Here?

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Our Darkest Day: New Zealand has been horribly scarred by a fanatical follower of the international white supremacist movement. He hid a...
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Friday, 15 March 2019

New Zealand's Current Foreign Policy: An Absence Of Realism.

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What Are You trying To Say? The contrast between Helen Clark’s stewardship of New Zealand foreign policy and Jacinda Ardern’s is stark. ...
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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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