Plenty of coverage over here of the “emergency summit” in Paris. The recognition of irrelevance comes easier to some than to others. The truth is from 1945 to 1989 Europe’s “importance” was as a pote… (View Post)

Evening all :) New Zealand has its own Rachel Reeves in the form of Finance Minister Nicola Willis who once claimed to be an economist - the problem being her degree was in English Literature and she… (View Post)

Vacuous nonsense. I don’t even know what a “hyper liberal” is and given everyone on here seems to have their own definition of what constitutes a liberal, a conservative, a green, a socialist and a p… (View Post)

Afternoon all from Aotearoa :) Very warm here but the thunder clouds are gathering over the Ruahine Ranges so we may yet have a fun evening. I mentioned Austria a while back - could be a taste of thi… (View Post)

There’s a debate which we are simply not having. Do we think there is a need for increased defence spending? The Americans play their usual “we carried Europe for decades” argument but American defen… (View Post)