Dear John, could you be the Kingmaker? Intriguing possibilities in 2020 New Zealand election
Recent political polling suggests that the 2020 New Zealand general election will be a close affair. The result could very well rely […]
Water fluoridation: Ending the (nearly) hundred years war
Capital gains taxes, less punitive approaches to criminal justice and substantive welfare reform. In the Government’s much vaunted year of […]
Arthur Taylor has a point on prisons, however
I agree with Arthur Taylor, prisons are terrible places. Few staff and even fewer prisoners want to be there, each […]
1080 and Water Fluoridation: Opponents who drink from the same anti-science trough
I had a pretty gnarly rental in 2014. Situated in what one might euphemistically label as the economically diverse melting […]
Lauren who? Mr Howard, we’re detaining you on character grounds
This piece was republished by the Sociological Association of Aotearoa / New Zealand. Ask any New Zealander this past week who […]
Teenage Parties? Leave it to the Woodstock generation, and their obvious infallibility
An edited version of this story was republished by The Spinoff on November 8th, 2017. I spent an hour chatting with the […]
Penal Populism in New Zealand: Meandering further down the fairness spiral
This piece also appeared on the Sociology New Zealand website. In our most recent election campaign the National Party co-opted a […]
Winston’s last stand: Tailoring the Emperor’s New Clothes, again.
Leading into the 2014 election I recall Chris Trotter was feeling pretty optimistic, he even suggested National’s vote could slump […]
Negative gearing: More distortion than a shitty dub step track
Have you heard the latest joke? The housing market is cooling off and it’ll be affordable again sometime soon! Heh, […]