Stephanie Rodgers

Feminist, leftie, green māmā from Te Whanganui-a-Tara

Category: Government

  • What is going on NOW with the local-government Right?

    Richard Harman has the goods on the latest outbreak of weirdness from the local-government right – and this time it’s Wellington’s turn. Finance Minister Bill English has made a rare…

  • QOTD: Jeremy Corbyn

    I was as elected as the Labour Party's leader to redistribute wealth and power pic.twitter.com/J8F0f4qooO — Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) June 27, 2016

  • How we talk about tax: the shiftless hordes and the hard-working rich

    This is how Stuff chose to headline an article about the way income tax is paid in New Zealand: On the Facebook thumbnail, it was even worse: (Congratulations, baby, you’re…

  • On Brexit

    I was discussing Brexit with a group of Wellington lefties last night over a few craft beers* and was dismayed to hear some of them applying the analysis that it…

  • #Brexit

    What else is there to say? More at The Guardian. But another note so it’s not lost in the mists of Twitter: people are asking, why has this happened? Is…