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On Having The Backbone To Restrict Our Defence Spending
Tuesday, 2 June 2026, 12:39 pm | Gordon Campbell
Lynda Topp can look after herself. Yet the rejoinder by Paul Goldsmith to her criticism of our irresponsible spending spree on Defence was so patronising it begs for a rebuttal. More >>
On Budget 2026
Friday, 29 May 2026, 1:47 pm | Gordon Campbell
The Luxon government won the last election by claiming that it alone possessed the managerial competence to fix the nation’s cost of living crisis. Three years later it is refusing to offer anything substantial to alleviate a cost of living crisis. More >>
On Labour’s Vanishing Act
Wednesday, 27 May 2026, 12:15 pm | Gordon Campbell
Chris Hipkins is testing the patience (and allegiance) of every centre- left voter. We may be now only a few months out from the election, yet Labour is continuing to refuse to say where it stands on a wide range of important issues. More >>
On The Social Housing Debacle, And The Red Tape Fantasy
Monday, 25 May 2026, 2:18 pm | Gordon Campbell
Having boosted homelessness by kicking people off emergency housing, government ministers Nicola Willis, Chris Bishop and Louise Upton claimed last week that it is “fair” to raise the rent on the 84,000 impoverished tenants in social housing. More >>
On Goodnight Moon By Margaret Wise Brown
Friday, 22 May 2026, 12:24 pm | Gordon Campbell
The Werewolf series on classic children’s books continues this week with the bedtime favourite Goodnight Moon, and the brief life of the tragic genius who wrote it. More >>
On The Public Service Chainsaw Massacre
Wednesday, 20 May 2026, 12:26 pm | Gordon Campbell
According to Finance Minister Nicola Willis, trashing the public service is all about finding a way to put the $2.4 billion saved into paying for more hip operations, and putting more nurses on wards. Yeah right. More >>
On James Cameron, And The Paramount Bid For Warners
Monday, 18 May 2026, 11:54 am | Gordon Campbell
Late last year, James Cameron got a good deal of publicity for his opposition on principle to the attempted sale of Warners to Netflix, and to the threat that the streaming giant allegedly posed to the future of the movie industry. More >>
On Classic Children’s Books: Badger’s Parting Gifts
Friday, 15 May 2026, 11:37 am | Gordon Campbell
Every Friday, Werewolf is re-publishing some essays about classic children’s book, that I began writing in 2009. This essay on Badger’s Parting Gifts has been slightly updated. More >>
On Pauline Hanson’s Rise, And The TOP Renaissance
Wednesday, 13 May 2026, 1:02 pm | Gordon Campbell
Routinely in politics, there is a double standard for outrage. The same people who regarded Jacinda Ardern as a jackbooted tyrant seem to be quite unruffled by National riding roughshod over both local democracy. More >>
On How US Courts Are Helping Donald Trump Steal The Mid-Terms
Monday, 11 May 2026, 12:44 pm | Gordon Campbell
The world has been quietly hoping and praying that the Republicans will lose control of the lower House or Senate – or both – in November’s mid-term elections, since this would put restraints on Donald Trump’s abuses of power. More >>
On Children’s Book Classics: The Moomins
Friday, 8 May 2026, 12:41 pm | Gordon Campbell
About 15 years ago on Werewolf, I started writing a series of articles about classic children’s books. Over the next few months, these articles will be re-published here, every Friday. More >>
On The Political Panic Over Immigration
Wednesday, 6 May 2026, 12:52 pm | Gordon Campbell
In the wake of WW2, immigration policy was driven by a mixture of compassion for the refugees of war, and by a less admirable desire to replenish our ranks (preferably) with the racial stock of the old Empire. More >>
On The Risks Of AI In The Workplace
Thursday, 30 April 2026, 12:24 pm | Gordon Campbell
Clearly, last year’s fears of a stockmarket “AI bubble” have long gone. AI firms & related stocks are now being treated as the backbone of American prosperity. At the same time, public perceptions of AI are heading in the opposite direction. More >>
On The FTA With India
Tuesday, 28 April 2026, 12:16 pm | Gordon Campbell
Labour finally came down off the fence last week & agreed to give National the votes required to get the free trade deal with India through Parliament, after NZ First came out against it. The process involved could hardly have been less democratic. More >>
On The Lifeline Thrown To Christopher Luxon
Wednesday, 22 April 2026, 1:57 pm | Gordon Campbell
The National Party caucus seems to have a death wish. In increasingly “uncertain and volatile times,” it has placed all its bets on the guy who has been seriously underperforming in more certain, less volatile times. More >>
On New Zealand’s Luxon Liability
Monday, 20 April 2026, 12:45 pm | Gordon Campbell
The National Party caucus has got itself into in a real bind. For weeks, their Cabinet Ministers and MPs have had their work cut out trying to look credible while voicing their undying loyalty to an unpopular PM widely seen to be not up to the job. More >>
On The Government’s Zombie Shuffle Into A Fuel Crisis
Thursday, 16 April 2026, 12:28 pm | Gordon Campbell
The US rationale for the blockade/entire war is that Iran must never, ever be allowed to have a nuclear weapon and that Iran has always refused to give up that goal. More >>
On The Rise And Fall Of Hungary’s Viktor Orban
Tuesday, 14 April 2026, 1:34 pm | Gordon Campbell
Why did Donald Trump, J.D. Vance, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Vladimir Putin work so hard to try and swing the election result in Hungary, a relatively poor country of fewer than ten million people? More >>
On Australia’s Failing R16 Social Media Ban
Thursday, 9 April 2026, 1:10 pm | Gordon Campbell
So that you can tell the grandkids, I hope you know where you were yesterday around noon, for what US President Donald Trump called “one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World.” More >>
On National’s Caucus Ructions
Tuesday, 7 April 2026, 12:17 pm | Gordon Campbell
In his tilt at the leadership last November, Chris Bishop plainly forgot Omar’s excellent advice from The Wire: “If you come at the king, better not miss.” He’s now paid the price. More >>
