Bowalley Road

Ruminations of an Old New Zealander

Wednesday, 31 January 2024

Intransigent Minorities.

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No Compromise! The price of not keeping faith with the voters can be high. The Coalition Government would be wise to learn from the Left’s m...
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Monday, 29 January 2024

The Cuckoo's Nest.

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“Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangel...
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Saturday, 27 January 2024

By The Time We Got To Turangawaewae ...

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... We Were Ten Thousand Strong: The activists know that for the next few weeks, at least, the advantage lies with te iwi Māori and their P...
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Thursday, 18 January 2024

When Push Comes To Shove.

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Emerging From The Shadow Kingdom: So devastating was the British victory over the Kingitanga that the movement tacitly foreswore any furthe...
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Hitting The Houthis.

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Action Stations: The New Zealand Left has conflated the ten UN members condemning Houthi attacks on vessels transiting the Red Sea with the ...
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Saturday, 13 January 2024

Where The People Walk.

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Walking Us Back:  It required no great brilliance on the part of National, Act and NZ First to grasp the enormous motivational power contai...
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Wednesday, 27 December 2023

What Would It Take For Labour To Win?

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New Leadership For A Rejuvenated Party: Flexible thinking and political courage are the qualities most needed by the New Zealand Left as it...
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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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