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Campbell: Treasury Update, And Calls for Austerity
Wednesday, 16 December 2009, 10:43 am | Gordon Campbell
Any future built on Treasury forecasts is on shaky ground, but lets assume the relative optimism expressed by Treasury in yesterday’s half yearly fiscal update is well founded. Should Finance Minister Bill English respond by keeping the screws on government ... More >>
Campbell: Tolley's last stand, those mayoral text
Monday, 14 December 2009, 11:11 am | Gordon Campbell
Education Minister Anne Tolley is painting herself into a dangerous corner by threatening to sack the boards of trustees at any primary schools still refusing in February to implement the national standards. Tolley seems hellbent on treating the issue ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: Obama's Peace Prize (+ Al Quaeda)
Friday, 11 December 2009, 10:09 am | Gordon Campbell
Before going into what Obama might need to do in future to justify the prize, we should spare a thought for those who have been having an even worse decade than the US... I’m talking about al Qaeda. More >>
Gordon Campbell: Risk Free Tax!
Wednesday, 9 December 2009, 9:35 am | Gordon Campbell
On current indications the Buckle Tax review will provide the final draft of their recommendations to the government just before Christmas – to enable it to digest the content – and then release the document to the public during the third week ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: China and our problems with P
Tuesday, 8 December 2009, 10:48 am | Gordon Campbell
Media coverage of the battle against P has tended to focus on the role of Maori gangs in the P trade. Yet most of the intercepts of the pseudoephedrine precursor to P that were being touted by John Key at his press conference yesterday originated from ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: Rugby World Cup public funding
Friday, 4 December 2009, 11:29 am | Gordon Campbell
In any other industry, the taxpayer/ratepayer subsidies being offered to the professional rugby industry for its World Cup event in 2011 would be being slagged off as government handouts. Surely, no other business gets its premises built and budgeted losses covered ... More >>
Werewolf #6 Out Now - Penultimate Werewolf For '09
Friday, 4 December 2009, 10:28 am | Gordon Campbell
Hi and welcome to the sixth edition of Werewolf. This issue contains two features about the Buckle tax review - which is shaping up as the defining event of the Key government's first term, in that the review will give John Key and Bill English the ... More >>
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 >>
