-
Subscribe
Subscribed
Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
He’s also not especially worried at the nationwide hostility currently directed towards the use of te reo Māori in everyday life. “I think it’s a dead cat bounce.” In other words, it’s a declining trend that makes a small uptick before it disappears completely. “You look at the young people in this district, you go…
ACT: All edge, no point. Props to Andrea Vance for calling the hypocrites out. The party has re-risen by stoking a culture war, peddling identity policies and putting a tale of Pākehā grievance at the heart of party identity. Part of that was relentless attacks on the character and motives of those with which it…
I think a lot of Pakeha don’t see the emergent power of young Maori. I went to a protest rally earlier this year and a full 50% of the crowd was under 20. This is becoming an inspiring force to be reckon’d with. It is one of the truely hopeful signals in NZ at present.…
The reviled NZ citizen, Peter Thiel, has a bit of a set back… but I’m taking the wins where I can. US tech billionaire Peter Thiel appears to have abandoned his plans to build a 330m-long luxury lodge overlooking Lake Wānaka. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/523397/us-billionaire-peter-thiel-abandons-lake-wanaka-lodge-build Now our utterly tone deaf PM will berate NZ for being so backward…
He’s only in it for the Twitter engagement and trying to create class division. We’ve got actual problems to solve and all he can do is culture war grandstanding. He is a criminally unserious man hell bent of divisiveness. He tried it with the Treaty and he’s trying it all over again with school lunches.…
The chutzpah… one day get pinged by the auditor general for a shonky no-bid $1M contract and then the next day lecturer us on how we’re not doing competition right.
Not a fan of reductionist frameworks. Coming from NZ where we have the colonial and Maori cultures starting to fuse it does provide some interesting insight. Cultures of Achievement, “with an economic emphasis on success, performance, productivity, and punctuality.” In his talk, Basáñez used the example of the U.K. Cultures of Honor, “with a political…
This is pretty much the only thing Winny and I will ever agree on… but I heartily commend him for making this speech. Foreign Minister Winston Peters has delivered a hard-hitting speech to the United Nations about the war in Gaza, calling it “an utter catastrophe” and accusing the Security Council of failing in its responsibility.…
There has been a spate of “tall poppy” cry-wanks in the NZ entrepreneurial community over the past week. The theme is: I’m a tall poppy and I keep getting knocked down. Turns out that the people getting this coverage are generally: really unpleasant to deal with, they hurt people as their managerial MO, their achievements…
Dave5 