Bowalley Road

Ruminations of an Old New Zealander

Tuesday, 14 November 2023

Time To Choose.

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To Have And To Hold: And now, as if the malevolent spirit of the times has not destabilised our world enough, New Zealanders’ adherence to t...
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Saturday, 11 November 2023

Threatening “Consequences”.

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Warning Shot: The former Māori Development Minister, Willie Jackson, predicted civil unrest on a scale “five times, ten times” worse than t...
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Tuesday, 7 November 2023

Taking Charge: Luxon Must Demonstrate That He Can Not Only Win – But Govern.

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Tough Assignment: The first lesson Christopher Luxon will have to learn is that being Prime Minister is not at all the same as being CEO. P...
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Friday, 3 November 2023

This Land Is Mine - by Nina Paley.

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NINA PALEY is a Jewish-American illustrator and animator. The video clip posted here is from her larger work, Seder Masochism , which may be...
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Tuesday, 31 October 2023

Failing The “Leftist” Litmus Test.

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Palestinian Lives Matter: What is it then that permits those who self-identify as leftists to survey the horrors of 7 October 2023 and see ...
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The Demographic Fix.

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Coffee-Coloured Cultural Moment: Pop group Blue Mink’s anthemic “Melting Pot”, released in 1969, was a product of that brief sunny moment i...
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Saturday, 28 October 2023

Reaping The Whirlwind.

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Mild-Mannered Avenger: “The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody...
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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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