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Marc Alexander - Welcome to Soviet New Zealand
Friday, 27 January 2006, 2:15 pm | Marc Alexander
Welcome to Soviet New Zealand! A land that frees you from the vicissitudes of choice, success, and independent thinking. A nation assuming all the hallmarks of an ideological dumping ground, with its citizens perilously close to being incarcerated in a big ... More >>
Marc My Words - 16 December 2005
Friday, 16 December 2005, 12:18 am | Marc Alexander
Sometimes the very idea of justice in this country is a sick joke worthy only of derision. Even the word itself - justice- coming from the mouths of its political custodians, has as much gravitas as the word love from the mouth of a street hooker. More >>
Marc My Words 9 December 2005
Friday, 9 December 2005, 11:38 am | Marc Alexander
Food is an important part of a person's life.but so is personal choice and responsibility. More >>
Marc My Words - 3 December 2005
Monday, 5 December 2005, 12:38 am | Marc Alexander
Moral indignation is rarely moral; it is mostly indignation of the self righteous variety, made up of a whole lot of "I told you so" strictures accompanied by unpalatable prescriptions of what we ought to do. We get a few of these every year. More >>
Treasury, Taxes and Trivial Pursuit with Winston
Friday, 25 November 2005, 12:54 am | Marc Alexander
Last week must have felt like an episode from the Twilight Zone for the Labour Government. First the embarrassment of the Treasury analysis which came out strongly in favor of tax cuts. Even the IRD jumped in on the act to say that unless company tax went ... More >>
Marc My Words: TVNZ Makes Astrology Look Good
Friday, 18 November 2005, 2:04 pm | Marc Alexander
Consultation is what happens when you talk through your problems with your employer. Gossip, recrimination and endless public finger-pointing is what happens when your employment is funded by the taxpayer and your employer is TVNZ. More >>
Rod Donald MP
Monday, 7 November 2005, 8:31 am | Marc Alexander
Rod Donald could be a lot of things to a lot of people. He was an infuriating political antagonist but when you least expected it, he was often amazingly generous and kind. Passionate about his beliefs, he could be as stubborn as he could be gentle. He and ... More >>
Marc My Words...
Friday, 4 November 2005, 2:55 pm | Marc Alexander
Political correctness is unreality that has been revised, edited and then promulgated as truth by the few, to be swallowed by the many. Truth is perhaps the most valuable commodity we have in a supposedly free and democratic civil society. Unfortunately ... More >>
Marc Alexander: A Government at Last! Yeah Right
Wednesday, 19 October 2005, 4:33 pm | Marc Alexander
Nothing in politics is so simple that it can't be misunderstood. The closed-door coalition shuffle is mercifully at an end. And did it take its time! We had an election over a month ago and we got what we least expected: a result that should have come ... More >>
The landscape of politics
Wednesday, 28 September 2005, 4:03 pm | Marc Alexander
One thing for sure, Labour scored a pyrrhic victory. Although the special votes have yet to be counted they are unlikely to change the flavour of Parliament. Whatever the coalition/supply and confidence/or abstention arrangements, a difficult time ... More >>
