Bowalley Road

Ruminations of an Old New Zealander

Wednesday, 11 August 2021

Frail And Confused: National Succumbs To Political Alzheimer’s.

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"Dammit! Where Did I Leave My Party?" What we saw over the weekend of 6-8 August 2021 was a party which no longer knows how to pl...
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Tuesday, 10 August 2021

Whistling “Dixie”.

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Bottom Rail On Top: Two powerful forces are driving the surges of right-wing populism which, for more than a decade, have been transforming...
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Friday, 6 August 2021

Dancing With The 400,000 You Came With.

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The Dancing Queen: The lesson delivered was as old as electoral politics itself: Dance with the person you came with. Or, more prosaically:...
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Monday, 2 August 2021

Neither Passionless, Nor Zombies.

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Once Again With Feeling: What the parties on both sides of the aisle need to understand, however, is that New Zealanders are not passionles...
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Friday, 30 July 2021

The Sin Of Cheapness.

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Commodities, Commodities, Everywhere - And None Of Them Are Cheap!  No less an authority than the Commerce Commission has determined that Ne...
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Should We Trust The Science – Or Ourselves?

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“ Pure” Science: The lesson to be drawn from the history of science, however, is that knowledge is always and everywhere embedded in cultur...
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Thursday, 29 July 2021

Holes in the Tundra: Why Burping Cows Are the Least of Our Worries.

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The Great Escape: If the Eurasian permafrost mantle melts, then the gigatons of stored Methane released will trigger runaway global warming...
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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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