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On The Mock Horror Over Political Profanity
Thursday, 15 May 2025, 2:32 pm | Gordon Campbell
A female journalist (the fearsome Andrea Vance) used a bad word to refer to female politicians who had just extinguished the ability of about 150,000 women to get fair pay for the work they do. The nation reeled, and expressed its outrage More >>
On The Parental Panic Over Young Kids Online
Tuesday, 13 May 2025, 10:06 am | Gordon Campbell
Creating a policy group to investigate a R16 ban on social media provides the government with a perfectly designed soapbox. The findings don’t have to end up suggesting anything useful, let alone a practical course of action. More >>
On The New Pope, And The Israeli Attack On Peter Davis
Friday, 9 May 2025, 12:58 pm | Gordon Campbell
The election of any Pope tends to be retro-fitted in ways that make the choice seem inevitable. God’s will, no less. If the new Pope had been Italian or a staunch conservative then much the same process would be taking place. More >>
On Surviving Trump’s Trip To La La Land
Wednesday, 7 May 2025, 1:44 pm | Gordon Campbell
The film industry was probably naive to think it would be spared from Trump’s war on globalisation. If you believe Trump, every dollar being spent on foreign film crews, FX houses and film locations by “runaway” film productions is money being ... More >>
On Aussie Election Aftershocks And Life Lessons
Monday, 5 May 2025, 12:49 pm | Gordon Campbell
While Donald Trump is being widely cited as a reason/explanation for Anthony Albanese’s landslide victory on the weekend, that’s like blaming the icing for the state of a badly baked cake. In no particular order of incoherence...although allegedly being More >>
On The Aussie Election Finale
Friday, 2 May 2025, 10:42 am | Gordon Campbell
The only spectre haunting Anthony Albanese’s government going into Election Day tomorrow will be the way the polls got wrong the likely 2019 election outcome. Back then, the Scott Morrison government got re-elected in an upset result. Opposition More >>
On Our Austerity Fixation And Canada Staying Centre-left
Wednesday, 30 April 2025, 12:30 pm | Gordon Campbell
New Zealand still seems to be hellbent on cutting its way to prosperity, whether that be via spending cuts and/or tax cuts. In that respect, the current weakness of the New Zealand economy really has been a self-inflicted death by a thousand cuts. More >>
On A Neglected, Enduring Aspect Of The Francis Era
Monday, 28 April 2025, 1:41 pm | Gordon Campbell
Now that the formalities of saying goodbye to Pope Francis are over, the process of selecting his successor can begin in earnest. Framing the choice in terms of “liberal v conservative” is somewhat misleading, given that all members of the College of More >>
On The Trump Upside, And Peters Persecution Of Trans People
Thursday, 24 April 2025, 1:23 pm | Gordon Campbell
Spare us the media pearl-clutching about what Donald Trump is doing to the natural order of things. Perhaps instead, we need to treat Trump II as a pandemic/climate change scale of convulsion that offers as much of an opportunity as it does a threat. ... More >>
Papal Picks, And India As A Defence Ally
Tuesday, 22 April 2025, 3:54 pm | Gordon Campbell
Reportedly, the global uncertainty being triggered by the US tariff wars has been motivating India to speed up its bilateral trade dealings with many countries, including NZ. More >>
On The Left’s Electability Crisis, And The Abundance Ecotopia
Thursday, 17 April 2025, 1:30 pm | Gordon Campbell
Basically, centre-left opposition parties that have recently been in government are struggling to find an identity in an era where they are still detested by many of the voters they need to win over, to be re-elected. More >>
On Why The US Stands To Lose The Tariff Wars
Tuesday, 15 April 2025, 11:05 am | Gordon Campbell
Trump has plunged the world’s two largest economies into conflict in ways likely to damage both, and alter the wider patterns of international trade. Countries are being forced to deal with the fact that essential products will have to be sourced ... More >>
On Marketing The Military Threat Posed By China
Thursday, 10 April 2025, 1:30 pm | Gordon Campbell
Gosh, we had to wait years for this flimsy Defence Capability Plan (DCP), only to get a 25 page document filled with back-of-the-envelope costings meant to justify a gigantic $12 billion spending spree of public money over the next four years. More >>
On Peter Dutton’s Fading Election Prospects.
Tuesday, 8 April 2025, 1:11 pm | Gordon Campbell
Since Australia is now our only dependable defence ally, maybe we should be paying attention to their upcoming election. Thanks entirely to Donald Trump, this is a very, very good time for those in power to be holding an election. More >>
On The Clash Between Auckland Airport And Air New Zealand
Thursday, 3 April 2025, 10:45 am | Gordon Campbell
With one notable exception, the Commerce Commission’s comprehensive investigation has ended up endorsing every other aspect of the airport’s building programme (and its pricing/charging decisions) as “reasonable” and /or “acceptable” within ... More >>
On The Government’s Latest Ferries Scam
Tuesday, 1 April 2025, 1:47 pm | Gordon Campbell
Has Winston Peters got a ferries deal for you! One of the contract bidders, South Korea’s vast Hyundai-Mipo Dockyard (HMD) held the initial contract for Labour’s iRex ferries, and this has to give HDM a unique ability to dictate the terms of where ... More >>
On The Americanising Of NZ’s Public Health System
Wednesday, 26 March 2025, 1:48 pm | Gordon Campbell
One of the odd aspects of the government's plan to Americanise the public health system – i.e by making healthcare access more reliant on user pay charges and private health insurance – is that it is happening in plain sight. More >>
On Israel’s Murderous Relapse, And Peters’ Sad Decline
Monday, 24 March 2025, 1:26 pm | Gordon Campbell
Israel has reverted to slaughtering civilians, starving children and welshing on the terms of the peace deal negotiated earlier this year. The IDF’s current offensive seems to be intended to render Gaza unlivable, preparatory (perhaps) to re-occupation ... More >>
On Winston Peters’ Bad Trip, And The Return Of The PPPs Zombie
Thursday, 20 March 2025, 11:15 am | Gordon Campbell
The epic importance of Winston Peters’ talks in Washington this week doesn’t seem to have culminated in anything more than us expressing our “concern” to the Americans about a series of issues that are already done and dusted. Tariffs? More >>
On Luxon’s Survival Chances, And The India FTA
Tuesday, 18 March 2025, 11:12 am | Gordon Campbell
Whenever Christopher Luxon drops a classically fatuous clanger or whenever the government has a bad poll – i.e. every week – the talk resumes that he is about to be rolled. This is unlikely for several reasons. For starters, there is no successor. More >>
