Lefter

The left tends to look at why people commit crimes, and tries to target resources accordingly. But the right assumes people are bad and need to be curbed.

I hate it that I’m right in this case, but this budget confirms exactly what I imagined back then. It’s just so commonly a right-wing response.

Bizarrely, as I write this, two young men with swastika tattoos are washing the house. The house washing people didn’t say anything about neo-Nazi operators. It’s not like the firm was called Himmler Housewash or anything.  ‘Politically Correct’ is one of the catch phrases people seemed to love to use to label all sorts of [...]

A few years ago my younger brother, who I respect and like, told me that the Middle Class basically paid all the taxes here yet was being squeezed continuously by successive governments. He said the Middle Class was shrinking and this was bad for New Zealand. I challenged him on this, and he annoyed me [...]