Bowalley Road

Ruminations of an Old New Zealander

Thursday, 7 November 2019

Global Protests Rage On: But Slogans Are Not Plans.

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Feeding The Flames: It is simply not enough to demand an end to “corruption”, or “inequality”, or the overbearing influence of the author...
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Monday, 4 November 2019

Gainful Employment: A Cautionary Tale.

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Transformative Politics: The idea is to turn each recipient into an unwitting accomplice in their own transformation. From interested ob...
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Saturday, 2 November 2019

On The Rebound.

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Signed, Sealed, Delivered, They're Yours: Is there any person more vulnerable than a jilted lover on the rebound? Or, anything more c...
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Thursday, 31 October 2019

National's Going Gangbusters.

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Criminal Enterprises: Gangs are not welfare institutions. Nor are they a substitute for the family their members never had. They are rut...
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Wednesday, 30 October 2019

To Save Democracy, We Must Make The Media Our Own.

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New Zealanders' Television: Obliterated almost completely from New Zealanders’ collective memory is the amazing collection of creativ...
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Saturday, 26 October 2019

Putting The Check In Right-Wing Prisoners’ Mail.

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If we are content to muzzle those with whom we disagree today, we should not be surprised when they muzzle us tomorrow. IT ALWAYS STA...
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Tuesday, 22 October 2019

Paying For Our Pakeha "Guilt" And "Privilege".

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Shouldn't That Be: "Wrong White Crowd"? Rather than apportion guilt, would it not have been wiser for the makers of Land O...
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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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