2008

By Keith Locke The following article was published in The Daily Blog, 20 October 2020 There has been much discussion about how the Greens should position themselves now they are not needed by Labour to form a government.The proposals range from no formal Labour/Green agreement to the Greens having Ministers in...

There are several reasons why it is wrong of the Green caucus to hand over some of their Parliamentary Questions to National.

One thing the Greens and NZ First won’t want to repeat is the Alliance experience in coalition with Labour from 1999 to 2002. With Ministers inside the Cabinet, committed to Cabinet solidarity, they had difficulty differentiating from Labour. This frustrated the party’s support base.

Labour’s Sadiq Khan won the London mayoralty despite anti-Muslim slanders from his main opponent, Zac Goldsmith.

When I opened up my mailbox yesterday there was a NZ Post leaflet cheerily telling me that “The world is changing, so we’re changing with it.” Good news? Unfortunately not.

I thought Adrian Leason was remarkably cheerful when I chatted to him at the Waihopai protest a couple of weekends ago. As far as our Court of Appeal...

We should not forget that until quite recently Mandela himself was designated as a terrorist by the United States, and had to get a special exemption from the State Department to visit Washington in 2008.