Paths are made by walking

New Zealand’s leading public intellectual of the Left, Chris Trotter, seems to have been genuinely unsettled by the defeat of Labour in 2008. Toys have been thrown, and targets targeted.
In an initial attack of post-election spleen Chris railed against those voters who brought in National as ” . . . the men who just couldn’t [...]

Dunedin Election Blog 2008

My new election blog for 2008 is online. I’ll be posting on this for the duration of the campaign – see you there.

Stop the Stadium March, Dunedin

Campaign trail “08″

I have been selected to stand for the Alliance Party in the 2008 general election for the Dunedin North electorate.
More information as it comes to hand.  I haven’t decided yet to blog on my campaign on my old election blog or just keep it all here.
I’m pleased to represent the democratic socialist viewpoint.

A couple of observations on the state of the world

On the theme of things “eco”, George Monbiot sums up recent thoughts rather nicely here.
He also manages to pin down the blindingly obvious with this post on Unions and the Labour Party in the UK. Some parallels to be drawn with our free trade pushin’  Government?

Tim Flannery and the new eco-conservatism

Last Tuesday night, it was impossible to get a seat at Tim Flannery’s lecture at Otago University on climate change. It attracted an overflow crowd. I haven’t read his popular books yet but look forward to it, as I have just got the Weather Makers out of the library.
I managed to catch him talking to [...]

Jack Yan on the downsides and upsides of globalization

My friend Jack Yan just posted a thought provoking article about globalization and the relationship between economy, business and society on his blog.
Jack is speaking at an open to the public session later this year at the Alliance Party conference in Dunedin on these very topics – and based on his above article, it should [...]

New film by Alister Barry

Went to the new documentary from Alister Barry at the Film Festival last night. Alister was there to give a talk and was selling copies of his movies including a new DVD trilogy “The New Right is Wrong” featuring Someone Else’s Country, In a land of plenty and the new one A Civilized Society.
All well [...]

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