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National’s dilemma: If not Labour Lite, then what?
Friday, 24 October 2008, 11:05 am | Gordon Campbell
The irony about National retaining such a handy lead in the polls is that while the public seems to have decided it is time for a change, it is still not giving National a mandate for change. Public support for National remains conditional on National ... More >>
Campbell on Lockwood and other embarrassments
Thursday, 23 October 2008, 9:30 am | Gordon Campbell
In the last couple of days, Lockwood Smith and Maurice Williamson have provided a timely reminder that no matter how much the public may like John Key, there is some truly awful deadwood on the National front bench. Having the shadow Immigration Minister ... More >>
Election 08: Campbell On The Politics Of Poverty
Wednesday, 22 October 2008, 1:28 pm | Gordon Campbell
We knew this already, but its nice of the OECD and its Growing Unequal report to provide the concrete evidence. Yes, the social and economic rewards of the free market reforms of the 1980s were captured by the relative few, with disastrous social consequences ... More >>
Is Maori Party Flirting With 2011 Electoral Doom?
Monday, 20 October 2008, 1:37 pm | Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell on the Maori Party’s perilous dance with the National Party wolves More >>
Campbell: Is Key's Super Fund Idea So Super?
Thursday, 16 October 2008, 11:08 am | Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell on the National Party’s sudden transformation into New Zealand First, and today’s McCain/Obama debate. More >>
Gordon Campbell On The Youtube Leaders Debate
Wednesday, 15 October 2008, 12:14 am | Gordon Campbell
In which Scoop Political editor Gordon Campbell finds the inaugural youtube debate as wet as some of the potential questioners More >>
Campbell On Labour's Student Debt Monster Plan
Tuesday, 14 October 2008, 11:22 am | Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell on the universal student allowance and the axeing of the Greens’ billion dollar energy efficiency fund More >>
Gordon Campbell's Election Launch 2008 Review
Monday, 13 October 2008, 12:15 am | Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell on whether not believing what the politicians aren’t telling you is any way to run an election More >>
Gordon Campbell on John Key’s economic package
Thursday, 9 October 2008, 9:42 am | Gordon Campbell
The National Party has billed this tax package release as an “economic management plan,” which could land them in truth-in-advertising trouble with the Consumers Institute. The reality is far more modest. What we got yesterday was a ‘me too ... More >>
Gordon Campbell previews the Obama/McCain debate
Wednesday, 8 October 2008, 10:23 am | Gordon Campbell
At least the ‘Town Hall’ format for today’s debate between John McCain and Barack Obama should play to some of McCain’s folksy strengths - which would be the first good news in a fortnight of terrible setbacks for the Arizona senator, ... More >>
Campbell:Post PREFU Preview Of National's Tax Cuts
Tuesday, 7 October 2008, 2:39 pm | Gordon Campbell
Tax cuts are a flexible piece of political ectoplasm. To those who peddle them, as Paul Krugman once noted, there is hardly an economic ill for which tax cuts are not claimed to be the best possible medicine. Your economy is running a healthy surplus? ... More >>
Campbell: The Greens election campaign launch
Monday, 6 October 2008, 11:19 am | Gordon Campbell
Hard to credit such a thing from the Green Party, but their television ads were the star turn at the Greens campaign launch at Te Papa yesterday. For years to come, those “Vote For Me” spots with the child on the wharf will be cited as a model ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Key and Clark's debate refusal
Thursday, 2 October 2008, 11:03 am | Gordon Campbell
The debate about the television debates rages on. In the television election debates this year, it seems that Helen Clark and John Key will only be presented in a one-on- one format by TV3 and TVNZ. In effect, the networks have let Clark and Key veto any ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: House rejection of bailout plan
Tuesday, 30 September 2008, 12:03 am | Gordon Campbell
So the House has rejected the bailout plan – or more correctly, the House Republicans rejected the plan concocted by their own President and Treasury Secretary. Has any president ever been so humiliated as Bush? President Bush was treated like a plague ... More >>
Campbell on Palin’s bad week and the bailout plan
Monday, 29 September 2008, 2:59 pm | Gordon Campbell
Luckily for Sarah Palin, the focus on the presidential debates and the $700 million bailout plan helped to bury a horrific series of news events for her last week. First, Palin kept stonewalling her way through the investigation into her role in the attempted ... More >>
Gordon Campbell interviews Hone Harawira
Friday, 26 September 2008, 12:07 am | Gordon Campbell
While the Maori Party does at times consciously project an image of guilelessness, they have been highly successful – more so say, than the Greens - at concealing their major party preference in this election. Currently, the Maori Party is a good ... More >>
Election 08: The US Bailout, Kid-Gloved Key
Wednesday, 24 September 2008, 5:15 pm | Gordon Campbell
This is crunch week for the US financial system, and the Democrats need to play hardball and vote against the $700 billion bailout plan. Because (a) the plan probably won’t work (b) isn’t fixable and (c) will be politically suicidal in the presidential ... More >>
The contemptible behaviour of Peters and Key
Tuesday, 23 September 2008, 10:34 am | Gordon Campbell
This week, the public itself could be forgiven for treating Parliament with contempt. In a majority decision, the privileges committee has found that New Zealand First leader Winston Peters had “ some knowledge’ of the $100,000 gift made in December ... More >>
Henry’s last stand at the privileges committee
Tuesday, 16 September 2008, 5:43 pm | Gordon Campbell
The final lingering image of the privileges committee investigation of Winston Peters was an apt one - a scrum of journalists gathered round Rodney Hide afterwards, virtually begging to be spun. As it happened, the last day’s testimony in the privileges ... More >>
Election 08: ‘Horse race’ political journalism
Monday, 15 September 2008, 2:17 pm | Gordon Campbell
So election day is November 8 which – it seems from media commentary over the weekend – was 'totally obvious' to political insiders all along. Or had been at least, since they stopped thinking it could be an early election - in which case October ... More >>
