There's something really bleak about literal princes campaigning to talk about mental health while NHS mental health services currently consist of telling suicidal people to download an app which is like Uber for mindfulness crossed with Spotify for deep breathing instructions.
In today's Bulletin on the retirements last year of Yang/Huo, I've included some thoughts on how systemic dishonesty from our political class creates conspiracy theorists. In my view, we don't talk enough about this aspect of conspiracism https://t.co/JcCH9BLa3j
I’m sure @grantrobertson1 has envisaged getting up in the house and giving an impassioned speech on inequality many times. But I doubt he ever expected the purpose of that speech to be justifying a wage freeze.
Our communities deserve liveable incomes, not being told that the current piecemeal approaches to welfare reform are massive.
We will keep fighting for higher benefits and rewrite the whole of the Social Security Act to deliver a welfare system that ensures people can thrive.
@lionel_trolling If we’re in a world of hypotheticals, surely the preferable outcome is not his show being cancelled but it failing to resonate with an audience? That’s the saddest thing about Tucker, he takes legitimate material concerns and misplaces them.
I had honestly forgot the fawning international articles about how we’d solved capitalism, the self-congratulatory speech from jacinda at Davos, the living standards framework. The “well-being” approach may well prove to be a perfect analogy for the legacy of the 6th labour govt.
Sadly, "Wellbeing" appears to be joining other key terms like "transformational", "KiwiBuild", and "kindness" in the Government's list of not-to-be-uttered, embarrassing words. I've commented on this here: https://t.co/wjBmpC46ip