Blogotariat

In a press conference last week, New Zealand Housing Minister Chris Bishop made the case that his nation needed to decouple economic growth from housing price increases, regardless of how challenging that may be in the short term. Bishop made the case that the Kiwi economic recovery needs to be driven by broad-based growth in

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How “humour” opens the door to far right politics.

By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 10th July 2025

Without resistance, a combination of new laws and new technologies of control will rush us towards dystopia.

By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian  4th July 2025

No one can be trusted with power. Any government will oppress its people if not constantly and inventively challenged. And the task becomes ever-more urgent as new technologies of surveillance and control are developed.

Cynical operators seek to divide rural and urban people. But what we want is fundamentally the same.

By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 28th June 2025

A massive new road scheme will solve precisely nothing, while costing the Earth.

By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 24th June 2025

There appear to be two main determinants of what infrastructure gets built. The first is whether it provides large and lucrative contracts for powerful corporations. The second is whether ministers can pose beside it in hard hats and yellow jackets. Otherwise, it is hard to explain the decisions made.