Posts by giovanni tiso
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On a frivolous note, be prepared for people who think it's all about Fabio.
What, is not?
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I note that the Fabians have a long and distinguished history
Of all intellectual, they also claim one of the longer-lasting.
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Apologies for the simplification and the outsider's perspective, but it strikes me that the social democratic principles espoused by Fabians actually reflect the broad ideological bent of New Zealanders far more accurately than the recipe that the country has been sold by both major parties since Lange. Would anybody agree with that?
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I'd also suggest whoever is pretending to be the responsible adult at the Herald on Sunday these day might want to ask thenselves if they'd be patting themselves on the back
Can I just say it's not the bodily gesture that I associated with the editors involved upon reading the article?
As you were.
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The National Front have as much right to promote themselves as anyone else.
Could we raise the bar as to what constitutes a national party at least? You'd think that a reasonable number of paid up members would be a honest prerequisite and weed out some of the fringes (and I say that as a lifelong holder of fringe political ideas).
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I mean, wouldn't that be news?
You would think so. And by the way, Scott Hamilton (aka maps) and Matthew Dentith (aka our very own HORansome) have been doing consistently terrific work in these very areas. You would think that our esteemed journalists would bother them for regular quotes, instead of keeping the McCroskries of this world on their speed-dials.
In an ideal world, I mean. One in which they had a basic idea of what their job entailed.
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You should also read Ben Wilson's wonderful, heartful post about his son, Marcus.
Hear, hear.
On the subject of the Act conference and Ms Newman, see also this wonderful post over at Reading the Maps. I can't recommend it enough.
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I applaud this initiative, for glaringly obvious reasons... but is it me or the title implies that there is an alternative to Fabianism?
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Yeah who knows - maybe the public will decide that the socialist workers ideas are better than the greens, or the nats - it's a marketplace
Ah, the irony!
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The New Zealand Herald in particular seems to be all over the place.
The New Zealand Herald - selling cluelessness as journalistic balance since (at least) 1997.