A Tale of Two PM's: The abject failure of a social experiment, and where to for Labour from here.

When Helen Clark referred to a farmer's notion of former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern as a "pretty communist" , calling it "silly" and a "misogynist attack" , one wonders if Aunty Helen really grasped the enormous error Labour made in placin…

The Curious Case of DJ Dimension

Here we are on New Years Eve 2021, about to enter the realm of 2022 and hoping for a miraculous recovery from the tumultuous two years that we are about to close the door on. For most New Zealanders, excluding only the very young, the otherwise distracted, or the very unawa…

Out of their gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind shall see.

There comes a time when even the willfully blind have no choice but to let the truth in through tightly closed eyelids. When even those who refuse to hear the truth cannot help but become aware that the myths they are being fed are just that - myths. There comes a time when…

Mother of Dragons? Jacinda Ardern prophetically trolled by her own colleagues.

Every now and then Twitter reminds you of something long since forgotten but in the landscape of current affairs, now desperately relevant. So it is with this 2018 article on Newshub , where Jacinda Ardern proudly revealed her colleagues' nickname for her - "Mother …

The Strawman in the Room

I spend a lot of time reading articles from the three main news sources in New Zealand - the NZ Herald, Stuff, and Newsroom. That's not to say that I accept the things I'm reading as factual, but I like to think of myself as sitting in the situation room and watchin…

"Dear Siouxie, the days of making excuses for the Ardern Government's incompetence are well and truly over."

As New Zealanders by the score are waking up to the realisation that our tiny island nation of five million is not really a 'team' after all, much of the gloss is wearing off the Labour Party's abilities to truly govern.  It's not like we're a huge count…