Posts by Joe Wylie
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Polity: Hosking’s right about jobs, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Actually I'm willing right now :)
A couple of hours ago I Liked her FB post from Paris.
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Polity: Hosking’s right about jobs, in reply to linger,
Tom was arguing for different kinds of mind refinement
Tom was simply channeling Prince Charles.
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Polity: Hosking’s right about jobs, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
I was glad to see Dr Megan Woods getting a chance in the reshuffle to try make a difference for y'all.
I'd like to believe, her being my MP and all, but I'm not the only one who wondered where the heck she was at those post-quake events attended by Ruth Dyson, Clayton Cosgrove, and Brendon Burns. As Wigram was relatively unscathed there was an impression back then of I'm all right Jack. Perhaps she'll come into her own once she emerges from Anderton's shadow. I only wish that she'd shown a more spirited defence when she was subjected to this faux outrage bullying campaign. Because behind the scenes, the gloves have been off for some time now.
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Polity: Hosking’s right about jobs, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Ahem, Pygmies? What's well put there? Let's not be insulting (?)
I remember discussing Clayton Cosgrove's performance with you here a while back. You made a persuasive case for giving him the ongoing benefit of the doubt, which tallied with my then recent experience of his stumping up to post-quake events.
So here we are, and Cosgrove, despite having been given shared responsibility for Lianne Dalziel's old job, made at the most five public statements on Chch recovery issues before being put out to parliamentary pasture. Presumably he'll go quietly at the next election. I appreciate that not everyone can be Kelvin Davis, but the Party as sheltered workshop model just isn't getting results down here.
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Polity: Hosking’s right about jobs, in reply to Tom Semmens,
No one is saying no to free education, just an end to the idea the only education that counts is a costly tertiary one that goes on forever.
And nature just happens to have gifted you with the kind of find mind to make these kinds of decisions on behalf of your inferiors. For someone so down with the lumpenproles, you do a pretty good impression of a barking snob.
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Polity: Hosking’s right about jobs, in reply to Tom Semmens,
A huge number of people – probably the majority of the population – are not particularly academically gifted, hated school, and are not that interested in the drudgery of continuing education. They just want a decent vocational job with a bit of on the job skill up-dating and training and some job security.
Oh for fuck's sake - you're paraphrasing exactly the kind of hidebound 1930s tory editorials, asserting that lesser mortals were essentially ineducable. that Clarence Beeby once so rightly skewered as "nonsense on stilts".
"Every person, whatever his level of academic ability, whether he be rich or poor, whether he live in town or country, has a right, as a citizen, to a free education of the kind for which he is best fitted, and to the fullest extent of his powers". That's Peter Fraser, back in 1939. That's what the Labour Party once stood for, before it was white-anted by bean-counting moral pygmies who imagine their privileges were somehow divinely ordained, rather than being hard fought for by their working class forebears.
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Legal Beagle: Update: Into the River, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
the (probably accurate) portrayal of a posh Auckland school as a fount of bullying, abuse and racism with a depiction of a staff-student sexual relationship in less than horrified terms was the crux of it.
While I don't know the inner workings of Mathieson's moral compass, that was certainly my feeling. If Into the River had been simple propaganda I might have some sympathy, but it's far more than that. All of its characters, Pakeha or Maori, male or female, gay or straight, rich or poor, are fully human. Dawe treats his readers as having the ability to draw their own conclusions. Perhaps that's what bothered Mathieson, as much as any superficial issues about sexuality or class.
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Hard News: The Police Ten 7 State, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Nicky Hagar’s house.
Ahem - Nicky Hager
:- )Indeed. To quote Tom Semmens, it's high time we stopped confusing Nicky Hager with a horrible viking.
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Polity: Hosking’s right about jobs, in reply to Sacha,
another spectacular misjudgement.
They've also invited Michael Bassett, who unlike Jim Anderton will be attending. The very same Michael Bassett who wrote a glowing review of Brash's Orewa speech, and later gloatingly revealed that he'd written most of it. You really couldn't make this stuff up.
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Polity: Hosking’s right about jobs, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
What might be on the menu?
When it comes to recipes, Roger's been known to channel the spirit of Aunt Daisy.