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Campbell on Margaret Bazley’s attacks on legal aid
Monday, 30 November 2009, 9:26 am | Gordon Campbell
The ‘gone by lunchtime’ response to legal aid that the Key government has chosen to adopt in the wake of Margaret Bazley report needs to be stopped - and not only because Bazley has been willing to make sweeping condemnations of the lawyers involved, ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Phil Goff and the race card
Friday, 27 November 2009, 10:04 am | Gordon Campbell
Playing the race card is one of those claims that is meant to shut down any further debate, and Phil Goff knew the risk that he was running – since he referred to the likely criticism on that front quite explicitly in his speech to Grey Power in ... More >>
Campbell: Using kids as guinea pigs (+ Hone, ETS)
Wednesday, 25 November 2009, 10:23 am | Gordon Campbell
Over the past 30 years, the public has regularly been treated as laboratory rats for this or that ideological hobby horse of government. Crash on through and pick up the pieces later is the Kiwi style of management, possibly because those in power ... More >>
Werewolf: Doing the Transtasman tango
Friday, 20 November 2009, 1:58 pm | Gordon Campbell
O ver the course of 2009, global practices in business regulation have toughened up considerably. US regulators have used phone taps to clinch their recent insider trading case against the huge Galleon Group hedge fund, and last week they arrested ... More >>
Werewolf: Portugal weathers the recession
Friday, 20 November 2009, 1:47 pm | Gordon Campbell
T uesday night in Lisbon had started out like an old murder mystery movie. I’d been told to take Tram 15 to the end of the line and he’d be waiting for me, in Alges. More >>
Werewolf: Racial Stereotypes In Children’s Books
Friday, 20 November 2009, 1:36 pm | Gordon Campbell
There’s so much crap in children’s bookshops and children’s tolerance of what is put in front of them is so immense, it should not be abused. That’s why it seems worth singling out some of the enduringly good books that, thanks to librarians and ... More >>
Werewolf: Unpacking the basis of a legend
Friday, 20 November 2009, 1:23 pm | Gordon Campbell
CD reviews tend to be consumer guides, a few paragraphs that boil the music down to a buy/don’t buy advisory note. At The Complicatist, we’re pointed in the opposite direction. More >>
Werewolf: The Media, Celebrities and Privacy
Thursday, 19 November 2009, 2:31 pm | Gordon Campbell
M uch as they shrink from admitting it, journalists and lawyers do have a lot in common. Both professions share a commitment to research, a sense of historical precedent, the need to strike a balance between competing sources and a commitment to expressing ... More >>
Werewolf: That song from Night of the Hunter
Thursday, 19 November 2009, 2:22 pm | Gordon Campbell
I f they know it at all, most people remember ‘Leaning on the Everlasting Arms’ as the signature song of the evil preacher acted by Robert Mitchum in the film Night of the Hunter. Mitchum sings it on more than one occasion during the movie – and ... More >>
Werewolf: Iran Paranoid, But With Real Enemies
Thursday, 19 November 2009, 2:16 pm | Gordon Campbell
I n the words of one Middle East analyst, Iran looks these days as if it is suffering from a type of auto-immune disorder, in which all its limbs are attacking each other. More >>
Werewolf: Death in Children’s Stories
Thursday, 19 November 2009, 2:10 pm | Gordon Campbell
There’s so much crap in children’s bookshops and children’s tolerance of what is put in front of them is so immense, it should not be abused. That’s why it seems worth singling out some of the enduringly good books that, thanks to librarians and ... More >>
Werewolf: Mapping the TV cosmos
Thursday, 19 November 2009, 1:40 pm | Gordon Campbell
But they do have a special charm, and we’re not talking simply about the charms of geography, important though they be. Mapping is a quality of that part of the brain that likes to assume executive power. More >>
Gordon Campbell: the 9/11 terrorists on trial
Thursday, 19 November 2009, 10:59 am | Gordon Campbell
For years, human rights advocates have argued that terrorism is essentially criminal behaviour, and terrorists should therefore be tried under the rules of due process that democratic states have developed over centuries for dealing fairly with crime, ... More >>
Campbell: The selective targeting of Beenie Man
Monday, 16 November 2009, 9:47 am | Gordon Campbell
Reportedly, Big Day Out organizers have backed down from their original intention to include the Jamaican dancehall musician Beenie Man in the next BDO festival line-up in January. The reason has been the public pressure from gay activists who have been ... More >>
Campbell: Obama’s latest surrender to Israel
Thursday, 12 November 2009, 10:29 am | Gordon Campbell
President Barack Obama’s single most important foreign policy decision during 2009 has been his recent backdown over requiring Israel to abandon the building of settlements in the occupied territories. Beforehand, this was to be a precondition for peace ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: Powers of search and surveillance
Tuesday, 10 November 2009, 10:59 am | Gordon Campbell
Does the Search and Surveillance Bill, as the NZ Herald has recently maintained, really give a web of state agencies ‘sweeping powers to spy, bug conversations and hack into private computers’ ? Or is this all based on a ‘remarkable misunderstanding’ ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: the Harawira junket, Sean Plunket
Friday, 6 November 2009, 11:54 am | Gordon Campbell
At least the coalition government has shown itself to be united this week – it seems intent on junketing at taxpayer expense across a broad and unified front. Hone Harawira of the Maori Party, Rodney Hide of the Act and the deputy leader of the ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: Foreshore and Seabed deals & Iran
Monday, 2 November 2009, 10:05 am | Gordon Campbell
So today, the government formally agrees to dump the foreshore and seabed legislation. On one level, this means karma retribution for National, which made so much of the iwi vs kiwi billboards in 2005 – since it will now fall to a National-led government ... More >>
Campbell: Cuts to Central (& Local) Govt Spending
Tuesday, 27 October 2009, 9:52 am | Gordon Campbell
As sure as night follows day, when farmer incomes come under pressure, Federated Farmers want to cut welfare – and slash anything else they think might be fuelling the stronger dollar while they’re at it. In 2009, this sort of cry looks particularly ... More >>
Campbell: Tolley’s 19th century education approach
Thursday, 22 October 2009, 9:51 am | Gordon Campbell
Remember National’s election promise to return New Zealand to the top half of the OECD tables? In government, its moves in education seem motivated more by a desire to return New Zealand to the golden age of Victorianism – when the three “R”s ... More >>
