PremiumLetters to the EditorLettersNZ Herald11 Sep, 2026 06:00 PM7 mins to readThe dictatorship of the shareholder was an issue that became a major discussion point in post-Thatcher Britain. Photo / Getty ImagesGo beyond the headlines with our daily news podcast The Front Page:Letter of the week: Dictatorship of the shareholder, or access to a human right?Emmerson’s cartoon (Sept 9) showing the huge bullmastiffs of the supermarket duopoly lording over any “pussycat” government-run proposal illustrates the problem brilliantly: corporations rule governments, not the other way around.
And while the Herald’s
convincingly outlines the huge cost to any government trying to set up this socially owned “pussycat” supermarket, it seems the real fix to the problem of food prices is already in legislation and staring us in the face, but nobody is talking about it.
