Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Issues

  • Best or worst party political broadcast of all time?

    I was almost crying watching this offering from the UK Green Party, and I honestly can’t tell you if it was from joy, laughter, shock or horror.   The BBC’s poll-of-polls…

  • Ports of Auckland: still totally not arrogant

    Oh my god. I thought Chevron’s condescending “We Agree” ad campaign was the peak of companies-talking-down-to-people-and-ignoring-the-actual-criticisms-levelled-against-them. But Ports of Auckland – whose CEO Tony Gibson was protesting only days ago…

  • Paid parental leave back on the cards?

    I suspect the media are going to get a lot of mileage out of “the Winston effect” over the rest of this parliamentary term – but you can’t blame them,…

  • It’s almost like John Key doesn’t realise he’s the Prime Minister

    There are two John Keys. That’s the only way to explain it. There’s the John Key who has been sitting on the ninth floor of the Beehive for seven years…

  • Snowden, surveillance, dick pics

    I’m late to the party on this most excellent Last Week Tonight segment on surveillance, Edward Snowden, and whether, right now, a US government employee is looking at your dick…