populism

The Bulletin: Will NZ back UN migration pact?

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Good morning, and welcome to The Bulletin. In today’s edition: Foreign policy fault line opens over UN migration pact, mental health report released and waiting on govt response, and yet more leaks about the National Party.  Fault lines have opened up in New Zealand’s foreign policy over whether we should sign up to the UN Global … Read more

New radicals: the challenge for NZ politics in the time of Corbyn and Trump

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Radical populism arises on the left, the right and in the centre. In this essay, from the newly published Journal of Urgent Writing, Simon Wilson makes a radical proposal for New Zealand. It was a time when New Zealand was sick of being New Zealand. It was the 1980s, a high old time, a time of … Read more