Bowalley Road

Ruminations of an Old New Zealander

Tuesday, 7 June 2022

The Affable Snake: Tony Simpson Remembers Stan Rodger (1940-2022)

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A Man May Smile And Smile: Stan Rodger was an affable almost avuncular figure although it’s important to recall that no-one gets to the top...
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Monday, 6 June 2022

The Year Of Jubilee.

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Apres moi ...? Queen Elizabeth II, photographed nearly 70 years ago at her coronation. A remarkable monarch, but she is faltering. Unable t...
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Summer Is Coming.

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A Sun-Hardened Road To Victory: The point of maximum danger will come if/when a day arrives when the Russian forces in Ukraine lose all off...
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Saturday, 4 June 2022

Centering The Right.

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It's All In Our Heads: Prefixing right and left with the word “centre” was once a gesture of moderation, intended to reassure voters th...
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Thursday, 2 June 2022

Intriguing Last Words: Remembering Stan Rodger (1940-2022)

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Stan's Our Man: A decent, moderate Labour Party stalwart, Stan Rodger navigated the treacherous waters of the Rogernomics era to such ef...
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Tuesday, 31 May 2022

Nanaia Mahuta’s Super-Narrative.

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Dangerous Political Narrator? What this Labour Government risks is the emergence of what might be called a “super-narrative” in which all th...
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The World’s Rapidly-Changing Strategic Environment.

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In Mandarin, Taiwan is spelt U-K-R-A-I-N-E: It is all very well for President Joe Biden to pledge his country’s military intervention should...
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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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