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Gordon Campbell: Winston Peters' Rebuttal Of Glenn
Thursday, 11 September 2008, 10:27 am | Gordon Campbell
Winston Peters goal last night was simple survival. And if the rules of natural justice rules still apply, he did manage to shake Owen Glenn’s testimony just enough to avoid summary execution. Glenn’s account of events may still sound like the more ... More >>
Gordon Campbell interviews Robert Fisk
Wednesday, 10 September 2008, 2:27 pm | Gordon Campbell
Robert Fisk was born 62 years ago in Maidstone, Kent – and if you’ve ever wondered about the residual worth of Latin and what happens to people who study it, the man did his BA in Latin, and in linguistics. He has since been reporting and commenting ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Owen Glenn testimony
Wednesday, 10 September 2008, 10:53 am | Gordon Campbell
With hindsight – or even you’d think, with foresight - it was not a great idea for Michael Cullen to be leading the Labour bloc’s attempt to dent Owen Glenn’s testimony to the privileges committee. It only made Cullen, Russell Fairbrother, ... More >>
Campbell on Defence, and strike three for Peters
Friday, 5 September 2008, 11:24 am | Gordon Campbell
Strike three may signal that Winston Peters and New Zealand First are soon to be out for the count. Beforehand, and despite all the sins, evasions and ‘ mistakes’ on NZF’s record regarding its non-declaration of political donations, the two investigations ... More >>
The Bad Blood Between the SFO and Peters
Wednesday, 3 September 2008, 12:01 am | Gordon Campbell
Like clashing CGI dinosaurs in a Peter Jackson movie, the Serious Fraud Office and Winston Peters seem to be creatures from another era, and not entirely real. The credibility problems of the SFO - which hinge on the allegedly politically selective ... More >>
Gordon Campbell Reviews PM's Presser 01.09.08
Tuesday, 2 September 2008, 9:54 am | Gordon Campbell
Realistically, how long should it take the Serious Fraud Office to establish whether a prima facie case of fraud really does exist against Winston Peters – or not ? In the run-up to the PM’s press conference yesterday, the SFO seemed to have been ... More >>
Campbell on Sarah Palin, and Key’s likeability
Monday, 1 September 2008, 2:14 pm | Gordon Campbell
Well, it didn’t take long for detail to surface on one of the problems Sarah Palin brings to her new role as vice presidential candidate for the Republican Party. More >>
Campbell on the latest Peters Saga (28 Aug 2008)
Thursday, 28 August 2008, 5:45 pm | Gordon Campbell
How ironic that Helen Clark chose in 2005 to create a governing bloc with Winston Peters for reasons of stability, to ensure that her government would run its full course. Serves her right, really. More >>
Gordon Campbell On the ETS And The Greens
Wednesday, 27 August 2008, 9:39 am | Gordon Campbell
So the Greens’ long, slow striptease over the Emissions Trading Scheme has now come to an end, with the party being granted a G-string of government concessions and commitments, in return for its support. The concessions are good in themselves. ... More >>
Gordon Campbell Reviews PM's Presser - 25 Aug 08
Tuesday, 26 August 2008, 10:13 am | Gordon Campbell
Like the gong starting round one, Newstalk ZB’s Barry Soper got in the first shot – what’s the election date ? – but no one at Prime Minister Helen Clark’s first press conference in weeks expected a substantive reply, and we didn’t get ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on National’s plans for roads
Monday, 25 August 2008, 1:05 pm | Gordon Campbell
Interesting that the National Party is seriously regarding the Australian experience with public private partnerships (PPPs) as providing a precedent for using PPPs to fund schools and hospitals in this country. More >>
Gordon Campbell: Clark briefing paper, Obama VP
Thursday, 21 August 2008, 3:27 pm | Gordon Campbell
Like most peeks behind the diplomatic curtain, the gaffe about the Australian briefing paper on Helen Clark was amusing, but instructive. More >>
Gordon Campbell On The Yadegary Decision
Friday, 15 August 2008, 3:24 pm | Gordon Campbell
While the release on bail of the Iranian Christian convert Thomas Yadegary is a victory in the short term – and a substantial relief for Yadegary himself – it may be the last gasp of judicial common sense before the Immigration Bill – as the Green ... More >>
Gordon Campbell On Arts Funding Policy
Wednesday, 13 August 2008, 3:18 pm | Gordon Campbell
Some people, including quite a few artists, find the very notion of state funding of the arts a hard one to embrace. For one thing, there’s a certain lack of romance involved An artist starving in a garret is a more heroic image ( at least, until ... More >>
National’s welfare policy, Tauranga and Georgia
Monday, 11 August 2008, 1:06 pm | Gordon Campbell
Will John Key’s policy announcement on welfare this afternoon do much to resolve the problems it claims to address? More >>
National’s welfare policy, Tauranga and Georgia
Monday, 11 August 2008, 12:53 am | Gordon Campbell
Will John Key’s policy announcement on welfare this afternoon do much to resolve the problems it claims to address? More >>
Campbell on the ethics of taping politicians
Thursday, 7 August 2008, 11:12 am | Gordon Campbell
Pretty doggedly, the mainstream media have stuck to their guns and kept the storyline on the secret tapes fiasco firmly focused where the National Party would prefer it to be – on Who Taped It, rather than (a) what is on the tapes or (b) what such ... More >>
Gordon Campbell Reviews The PM's Presser 4 Aug 08
Tuesday, 5 August 2008, 9:41 am | Gordon Campbell
Normally the Prime Minister’s press conference virtually sets the political agenda for the early part of the week but not this time. Bill English’s own goal at the National Party annual conference swept everything else aside. You can read the full ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on National’s economic vision
Monday, 4 August 2008, 10:33 am | Gordon Campbell
Chances are, if someone said they were planning to raid their children’s piggy banks in order to pay the rent – mainly because they just couldn’t resist the impulse to spend the rent money down at the TAB - we wouldn’t be applauding them, ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Olympics
Thursday, 31 July 2008, 3:58 pm | Gordon Campbell
Yesterday, it surfaced that Helen Clark has signed up to an Amnesty International protest over capital punishment in China. When talen together with the fact that Clark is not joining other heads of state ( such as George Bush or Sarkozy) in Beijing, ... More >>
