virtue signalling

Judith Collins is right: Jacinda Arden is an inveterate virtue-signaller

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The country is changing. And in contrasting herself from her predecessor and advocating for this change, the PM is wielding her awesome and terrible powers of virtue-signalling. It’d be odd if she wasn’t, writes Danyl Mclauchlan. As The Spinoff recently documented, virtue-signalling is the opposition’s favourite attack line against the Labour-led government. Why “virtue-signalling”? It’s … Read more

All the things National MPs think are virtue signalling

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If there’s one thing that the National opposition appears keen to signal, it’s that they think a lot of things are virtue signalling In an interview with the Spinoff a little over a year ago, then prime minister and National Party leader Bill English was asked whether he considered himself a feminist. Though he believed in … Read more