World News Brief, Thursday January 30
Top of the AgendaObama Reinforces Diplomatic Path on Iranread more
View ArticleIdentity politics and secession booted out of Quebec
This week’s Quebec election which delivered a historic routing of the incumbent sovereigntists with their ugly identity politics and secret plans to hold a third referendum to secede from Canada, is...
View ArticleWorld News Brief, Thursday June 26
Top of the AgendaRussia Annuls Authority to Use Force in Ukraineread more
View ArticlePerson votes vs Dollar notes
A modern society uses two main ways for regulating its public life; politics and the market. In principle the political ideal is 'one person, one vote', whereas markets are driven by 'one dollar, one...
View ArticleWill Judith Collins cost John Key his third term?
So, apparently there will be an election tomorrow. If you haven't yet voted, you should do so by 7pm tomorrow. Otherwise one of the Electoral Commission's kill squads will hunt you down and leave your...
View ArticleLabour and Greens voters are more alike than different
Most political analysis in New Zealand seems trapped in the two-party winner-takes-all world, or perhaps they are numerically challenged by the number which comes after two. Whichever, to discuss the...
View ArticleThe fat lady's final notes
As I said here on the eve of polling day (and intimated again here the day after), the 2014 election wasn't over until Saturday, October 4*:read more
View ArticleSpy cables expose Netanyahu
A week before Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the US Congress on his claims of an “existential” threat of a nuclear Iran, his argument appears to have been blown out of the heavy water by the...
View ArticleDog-whistle politics and Islamophobia in the Canadian election
Call it dog-whistle or wedge politics, it is ugly, racist and alive and kicking in the Canadian election campaign.During the last weeks Conservative leader Stephen Harper has seen his majority...
View ArticleA new New Zealand is Necessary
As the Lonely Planet guide says - thank goodness for New Zealand. In a world characterised by instability and insecurity, New Zealand is a source of hope.Of course, those of us who live here might have...
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