Michael Cullen’s memoir Labour Saving provides one of the most coherent defences of social democracy written by a New Zealand politician.
Read MoreIn Defence of Social Democracy
social democracy
Hinges of History: After Covid-19?
Will the Covid Crisis lead to a dramatic redirection for New Zealand and the World?
Read More"Do it for all of us". Can Labour save social democracy?
Social democracy is in trouble. Social democratic parties have been annihilated in Greece, reduced to a shadow in France and struggle in Scandinavia. Corbyn in Britian and Sanders in the United States have support but can't get elected. Can New Zealand Labour show that it is not only possible to form a government but also to save social democracy?
Read MoreA Social Democrat Assesses How is the Land Faring?
Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates, and men decay:
Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade—
A breath can make them, as a breath has made:
But a bold peasantry, their country’s pride,
When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
The Deserted Village: Oliver Goldsmith
This column follows on from ‘Whence Europe; Whither Europe’.
Read MoreFrom Whence Europe? Whither Europe?
Although completed a decade ago, Tony Judt’s history of postwar Europe presaged some of the challenges that it faces today.
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