Stephanie Rodgers

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

Tag: cameron slater

  • Hager’s revelations have the authoritarians worried

    The Sunday Star-Times is reporting interesting things coming out tomorrow: https://twitter.com/sundaystartimes/status/573944664081850368 You can always spot the stories which have the supporters-of-the-status-quo worried: https://twitter.com/MatthewHootonNZ/status/573949709938634752 https://twitter.com/MatthewHootonNZ/status/574007328468377600 I hate to break it to…

  • Who texts the PM?

    An OIA request for information about the Prime Minister deleting his text messages is back (hat-tip to @eey0re) and Wayne Eagleson has found another wafer-thin excuse for the wholesale deletion…

  • Watching our language on mental illness and disability

    [Content note: ableist language] It was probably inevitable that in a post on The Standard about the differences in commentary style between leftwing and rightwing blogs, someone would come along…

  • The meaning of dirty politics

    One of the strategies of the right in NZ politics has been to take any complaint levelled against them – of corruption, of malpractice, of conspiracy – and reduce it…

  • The downfall of John Key

    The question of the day is whether John Key mishearing, forgetting, or not wanting to answer questions about Cameron Slater’s bizarre text messages is going to be the nail in…