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Why Write (and Read)?

Written By: - Date published: 12:24 pm, April 12th, 2025 - 10 comments

Art has political power and every voice counts.

The Trump Shock: Why the US President Crashed the Global Economy

Written By: - Date published: 3:28 pm, April 11th, 2025 - 19 comments

There is a method to Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff madness. The chaos and confusion is deliberate; the aim is nothing less than the controlled disintegration of the world economy, writes Elliot Crossan. The eyes of the world are on Donald Trump once again. The world’s most successful attention-seeker has us all transfixed. It’s a story […]

The maniac president blinks, but for a moment…

Written By: - Date published: 8:50 am, April 11th, 2025 - 29 comments

Faced with an inability to fund the the US government debt, Donald Trump halted his insane rush to toward a global depression. However the political system in the US that produced this global economic insanity is still there and is still nonfunctional. Time to disengage and let the US time to heal itself.

Tamatha Paul on BHN

Written By: - Date published: 4:07 pm, April 8th, 2025 - 1 comment

The Sensible Sentencing Trust’s free publicity, and what defunding the policy means.

NZD Freefalls & NZ First Linked To Green Party Attack Ads

Written By: - Date published: 10:57 am, April 8th, 2025 - 3 comments

Headlines: NZD free falls, misleading Green Party attack ads linked to NZ First, making NZDF lethal, and American billionaires regret support for Trump

All they are saying is give War a chance

Written By: - Date published: 7:25 am, April 8th, 2025 - 78 comments

At a time when the need for increased spending in health, education and the environment is so pressing the Government wants to spend a further $12 billion over the next four years on rearming.

Misleading Billboards Are a Threat to Electoral Integrity

Written By: - Date published: 6:44 pm, April 7th, 2025 - 33 comments

Misleading the public never is good for politics.

Trump’s Secret Sauce Hits NZ

Written By: - Date published: 7:50 pm, April 6th, 2025 - 11 comments

What is Trump’s secret sauce? And what parallels and lessons can we draw in Aotearoa New Zealand, before it’s too late?

Trump Schadenfreude

Written By: - Date published: 8:05 am, April 6th, 2025 - 68 comments

All the fools supporting hard right political leadership will now be reminded of what they signed up for.

Aotearoa take a bow

Written By: - Date published: 8:14 am, April 5th, 2025 - 27 comments

The Justice Select Committee has returned Act’s odious Treaty Principles Bill to Parliament. And in its report it has noted that the overwhelming majority of submitters opposed the bill.

Go Phil!

Written By: - Date published: 9:15 am, April 4th, 2025 - 14 comments

Phil Goff doubles down on criticism of Trump’s lies.

US imposes 10% tariff on NZ imports

Written By: - Date published: 1:43 pm, April 3rd, 2025 - 52 comments

While 10% is at the lower end of this unjustified tax, it is very serious for our whole NZ economy.

The RNZ-Reid Research poll

Written By: - Date published: 9:13 am, April 1st, 2025 - 33 comments

The new RNZ/Reid Research poll has its first results.

NZ Leftist Collective March 2025

Written By: - Date published: 8:38 pm, March 30th, 2025 - 17 comments

Samah Huriwai-Seger, Shane te Pou. Craig Renney, Kieran McAnulty, hosted by Pat Brittenden

When Government does not want to listen to the people

Written By: - Date published: 10:56 am, March 29th, 2025 - 27 comments

The Coalition is utterly disrespectful to the people.

What Tamatha Paul Really Said

Written By: - Date published: 2:22 pm, March 28th, 2025 - 22 comments

Tamatha Paul’s comments on policing have been criticised by Luxon as “insane” but a closer look at what she really said shows how much her comments have been taken out of context.
Meanwhile, National’s law and order track record is only deteriorating.

But her emails

Written By: - Date published: 8:04 am, March 28th, 2025 - 17 comments

Recent events in the US involving the use of Signal to discuss top secret military news and accidentally including a reporter in the chat suggests that the US of A is currently resembling a dark satirical cross between Monty Python and The Thick of It.

Yeah, Nah, National Don’t Deserve A Second Term

Written By: - Date published: 3:34 pm, March 27th, 2025 - 23 comments

A response to right wing commentator Matthew Hooton.

The Draft Electoral Boundaries

Written By: - Date published: 7:00 am, March 27th, 2025 - 11 comments

The Representation Commission’s draft boundaries for the next election have been released. And despite right wing claims to the contrary at least in Auckland the boundaries appear to favour the left.

Winston’s war on wokeness

Written By: - Date published: 7:04 am, March 25th, 2025 - 41 comments

In what looked like an early election campaign launch Winston Peters has done his old man shaking his fist at the sky tirade against everything woke.

The Unbearable Weight of Being a Useful Idiot

Written By: - Date published: 9:57 am, March 23rd, 2025 - 96 comments

Res Publica takes aim at modern day ‘tankies’. Pro-authoritarian leftist, who can apologise for any authoritarian regime provided that it is intellectually cloaked in the ‘correct’ rhetoric and a veneer of geo-politics. In their view, modern day tankies are only good at reducing the left’s credibility to rubble in real-time.

Then they came for the Doctors

Written By: - Date published: 10:38 am, March 22nd, 2025 - 45 comments

It seems that the National Act Government is looking at what is happening in the US of A and thinking that the rolling out of fascist restrictions of freedom of speech is a good thing. And they are starting with health professionals.

The Libelle liquidation

Written By: - Date published: 12:20 pm, March 20th, 2025 - 20 comments

The first liquidator’s report on Libelle Group Limited suggests the company was hopelessly incapable of performing its role in providing the National-Act Government’s version of school lunches.

The World Turned Upside Down (again)

Written By: - Date published: 4:52 pm, March 19th, 2025 - 73 comments

The world is in turmoil as political and economic uncertainty grow, and as conflict spreads. How the Left prepares for the next decade is a pressing challenge.

Cuts to Disability Services Are Part of a Class War

Written By: - Date published: 7:30 am, March 19th, 2025 - 14 comments

Over the last year, the Coalition has unleashed a series of cuts which have been devastating for the disabled community. These cuts are part of a class war — and it’s time to organise and fight back, writes Elliot Crossan.

Is NZ as Stable as Luxon Claims?

Written By: - Date published: 8:14 pm, March 15th, 2025 - 13 comments

By pursuing cuts, selling off assets to multinationals, enabling ACT’s attacks on the Treaty and cutting back on climate commitments, Luxon is guaranteeing that NZ will not be stable for long, writes Elliot Crossan.

Does the Government not like Māori and Pasifika?

Written By: - Date published: 7:00 am, March 15th, 2025 - 17 comments

Health officials advised the Government “significantly” more lives could be saved if it lowered the bowel cancer screening age for Māori and Pasifika further than the rest of the population. But it refused to accept this advice. Why?

Failed Conference

Written By: - Date published: 1:03 pm, March 14th, 2025 - 46 comments

Luxon’s team have delivered zero deals out of the multibillionaire conference on infrastructure. This is a fail.

NZ Science is in Big Trouble

Written By: - Date published: 5:36 pm, March 13th, 2025 - 12 comments

Science and tertiary education are being ignored in NZ, which is just dumb.

Going for poverty: National’s new procurement rules

Written By: - Date published: 6:51 am, March 13th, 2025 - 35 comments

Nicola Willis is picking a fight with unions and environmental groups by proposing changes to Government procurement rules that would do away with environmentally beneficial policies and the requirement to pay the living wage.

Where Is the Resistance to Privatisation and Austerity?

Written By: - Date published: 5:19 pm, March 11th, 2025 - 13 comments

As the Coalition moves to partially privatise our healthcare system, and Seymour fatally undermines the free school lunch programme, it is time for us to take to the streets and fight back, writes Elliot Crossan.