Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Politics

  • Stop calling it a false flag

    [Content note: discussion of Manchester bombing and responses to it.] It happened again. It took all of ten minutes after I saw news of the Manchester bombing online for some…

  • Emotional politics at Labour’s 2017 Congress

    I popped into Labour’s Congress yesterday to catch up with a few comrades who were down for the big event. Literally everyone was buzzing about a couple of the speeches…

  • Taxes, greed and David Seymour

    Fleshing out one of my recent Twitter rants, kicked off by this tragic bit of capitalist propaganda from the “leader” of the ACT “Party”: It's Tax Freedom Day. In other…

  • I aten’t dead

    April 2017: a hell of a month offline, so damned quiet around here. But I’ve managed to do a bit of writing elsewhere, so don’t fret! Today at The Spinoff:…

  • Why fiscal responsibility is the Bog of Eternal Stench

    Labour and the Greens have announced a cornerstone coalition policy for the 2017 general election: a set of Budget Responsibility Rules which will, per the Greens’ website: … show that…