there's one policy position that makes me unreasonably angry: "the cost of living is too high; we should take the GST off fruit and vegetables." I've got problems with this idea. if we did, the best-case scenario is if you spend $100 on fruit
almost none of New Zealand's housing stock is accessible. our footpaths are too narrow. most roads are too dangerous to cross if you can't run. there are stairs to basically every venue. disabled people are given unliveably low benefits; but when it comes to parking, suddenly
This was originally published on the 30th of October, 2024 on my previous blog. In the windows of many Wellington businesses, you'll find notices decrying the "deluded bureaucrats" of the "undemocratic WCC" and how their plan to give cars slightly lower priority in the
This was originally posted April 25th, 2024 on my previous blog. It has been re-posted here with minor changes. "Lest we forget". We have forgotten. New Zealand is just as much now as we were back then, a tool of the colonial war machine. Thousands of us turn
kia ora, my name is River, and this is my blog. it's not my first blog. my previous blog was hosted on another platform. I was made aware that that platform was a nazi bar, and I swiftly resolved to move to another platform. that's what