Last week Ted Thomas gave his Bruce Jesson lecture. The text of it is attached, but his basic argument is that the best way to tackle inequality is a rights-based campaign. As he puts it: “The community, or groups within the community, will need to take a more assertive, if not aggressive, approach to the…

The only thing worse than being attacked is being ignored, so it’s probably a good sign that people are now taking the time to criticise Inequality: A New Zealand Crisis. This is the latest such, from the Herald: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11150603 Of course, inequality is not a zero-sum game, as the article claims. The point is that…