Posts by Sacha
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Speaker: Are we seeing the end of MSM,…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Not so fast. The first story could well continue: 'Yet his spitting on the waiter may not bring universal acclaim.'
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Legal Beagle: Last call on the Electoral…, in reply to izogi,
Parties are made up of the people whom they collectively choose to represent them in Parliament.
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why is it such a foregone conclusion that the party's executive is better at representing the party's voters than the list MPs who can't continue to work with it?Not quite. MMP works on the basis that list MPs are accountable to party *members*, not voters. The core assumption was that citizens would exert influence by joining political parties as well as by voting for them.
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Hard News: On joining the international…, in reply to mark taslov,
thank you
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Hard News: On joining the international…, in reply to mark taslov,
Vocabulary matters
And some of us have put quite a bit of effort into that - but without genuine political support and organising, it means very little. A decade of my life I won't get back.
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Hard News: On joining the international…, in reply to mark taslov,
Three months wasted but what are you gonna do?
Sorry to hear that. Publishable elsewhere?
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Hard News: On joining the international…, in reply to mark taslov,
an inability or unwillingness to either grasp or present these basic concepts to a wider multicultural audience
I'd be embarrassed to be most news editors and producers right now.
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Hard News: On joining the international…, in reply to Dennis Frank,
The counter on this site needs a re-wind. I've posted around 20 times since it showed me with 187 & it still shows 187.
Only fresh opinions count.
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SoccerPractise drop new single Kaua E Mate Wheke with hypnotic video.
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Adolf just wanted a fair hearing, but would the world listen?
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Hard News: Dilemmas: the drug-driving ad…, in reply to Russell Brown,
Why does one of the guys keep turning into other people?
OK now I need to re-watch