by Julian Crawford | Aug 5, 2025 | Blog
Auckland, NZ – August 5, 2025 – The upcoming Tāmaki Makaurau by-election, scheduled for September 6, 2025, has taken an intriguing turn with the announcement that Kelvyn Alp, a controversial political figure and leader of the NZ Loyal party, will be standing as a...
by Julian Crawford | Jan 11, 2025 | Blog
Plato conceptualises an ideal society to illustrate his argument about the true nature of justice. In this thought experiment, the ideal society is divided into three main classes: Producers, Auxiliaries and Philosopher Kings. He describes how the harmony of the...
by Julian Crawford | Dec 3, 2024 | Publishing
Published by Maitai Media in 2022. Available in paperback on Amazon. Theory of Devolution is the blueprint for Donald Trump’s shadow presidency. In the “post-truth” age, information battlefields have become the front-lines in a new irregular war. The media would have...
by Julian Crawford | Dec 3, 2024 | Blog
According to the NZ Loyal’s Constitution a super majority of 80% of the voting membership is required to dissolve the party. Yet Liz Gunn unilaterally decided to wind up the party and had it de-registered by the Electoral Commission against article 13.1 of the...
by Julian Crawford | Dec 3, 2024 | Blog
The Iron Law of Institutions is much like cancer for organisations Despite this It is also an inevitable feature of most organisations. The term was coined by Robert Michels in his 1911 work Political Parties: A Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of...
