3/3 He was one of the best former PMs we've ever had. In 2013 I produced this l interview with him, I was impressed. (Chatting to him pre-IV he praised a documentary that told the history of US intererece int the ME. (It was by Pilger but he didn't mention that.) www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

2/3 So it's only right that we don't whitewash the very real negative impact on the most vulnerable - often Maori - during his leadership.
He was the father of the mother of all budgets and the Employment Contracts Act.

Just so ignorant. Trying to make a distinction between the UN definition - set in the Genocide Convention- and common usage. The word and its definition exist thanks to the convention. An arrogant fool.

Ignorant of the voting system. No splitting of the vote occurs under STV. You were voted in on a popular mandate. Sure it would have nice to have a higher turnout but that would almost certainly have benefited you.

Hosking and his wife, sorry forget her name, were obsessed with Meghan Markle. It felt personal. Like they were affronted by this black woman becoming a princess. Same thing at work here I suspect.

This feels big. How did @livingwageaotearoa.bsky.social apply pressure?

Do you really think Labour would have stopped it? Or are you saying he keeps both National and Labour in power?

RNZ does regularly run pieces from the Conversation. Possibly the best way to get an op ed from one of the 20 economists is for one of academics in the group to write one. (Bertram or St John would be great.)

Peters says New Zealand's partners are divided on the issue. Other than the US which of our partners haven't either recognised Palestine or said they will? Do we call Germany a partner?

Are the other 20% because of younger men, like Obama and Blair, who are hungry for power and significance?

Does any sovereign country not have a bespoke legal system? Isn't that close to a definition of sovereignty ?

We all have a "right of return" denied to Palestinians ethnically-cleansed in 1948 and beyond. So If I figure I have no choice really but to say not in my name.

Instead our foreign minister - lauded by many in the media - has told the families of two brave souls on the Sumud flotilla that New Zealand will offer zero support.

"When you see that nature represents some value, like gold, you start to pay more attention to the environment you live in." resources minister Shane Jones. It's a line any good satirist would be proud of and it explains a lot.

Their grand kids will live in shame.