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On Concert Being Bled To Enable RNZ’s Youth Station
Wednesday, 12 February 2020, 10:51 am | Gordon Campbell
Release the frequencies! If only all political crises could be resolved with such (suspicious) ease. In December, the RNZ board signed off on the idea for a new youth music channel on FM. Gosh, if only RNZ had told the government that this innovation ... More >>
On the survival of RNZ Concert
Monday, 10 February 2020, 11:03 am | Gordon Campbell
Come July and under current plans, RNZ Concert as we now know it will have ceased to exist. More >>
On the economic impact of coronavirus, and the Iowa debacle
Wednesday, 5 February 2020, 11:31 am | Gordon Campbell
As Bloomberg says, the coronavirus shutdown is creating the world’s biggest work-from-home experiment. On the upside, the mortality rate with the current outbreak is lower than with SARS in 2003, but (for a number of reasons) the economic impact this time ... More >>
On dodging a bullet over the transport cost over-runs
Tuesday, 4 February 2020, 10:30 am | Gordon Campbell
As New Zealand gears up to begin its $6.8 billion programme of large scale roading projects all around the country, we should be aware of this morning’s sobering headlines from New South Wales, where the cost overruns on major transport projects ... More >>
On National’s hopes of driving NZF out of Parliament
Monday, 3 February 2020, 10:14 am | Gordon Campbell
For months, National’s best (and only?) hope of winning Election 2020 has involved keeping New Zealand First down below the 5% MMP threshold, and out of Parliament altogether. Getting to that point would require National to win very close to 45-46% ... More >>
On Kobemania, Palestine, and the infrastructure package
Thursday, 30 January 2020, 9:41 am | Gordon Campbell
Quick quiz to end the week. What deserves the more attention – the death of a US basketball legend, or the end of Palestinian hopes for an independent state? Both died this week, but only one was met with almost total indifference by the global ... More >>
On China treating our citizens as Coronavirus hostages
Wednesday, 29 January 2020, 11:04 am | Gordon Campbell
More than once at her post-Cabinet press conference yesterday, PM Jacinda Ardern claimed it would be “very difficult” to evacuate the 53 New Zealanders currently trapped in China’s Hubei province, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak. So, ... More >>
On The Coronavirus Outbreak
Tuesday, 28 January 2020, 11:30 am | Gordon Campbell
The coronavirus – its official World Health Organisation designation is 2019-nCoV – is believed to have originated as a seafood-to-human transfer, with ground zero for the transfer believed to have been a fish market in Wuhan, China. The coronavirus ... More >>
On the double standard that’s bound to dominate the Election
Monday, 27 January 2020, 12:53 pm | Gordon Campbell
Are National really better political managers than Labour, particularly when it comes to running the economy? For many voters – and the business community in particular - their belief in National’s inherent competence is a simple act of faith. (For ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on dealing with impeccable, impeachable lies
Thursday, 23 January 2020, 12:30 pm | Gordon Campbell
By now, the end game the Republican Senate majority has in mind in their setting of the rules for the impeachment trial of Donald J. Trump is pretty clear to everyone: first deny the Democrats the ability to call witnesses and offer evidence, and then ... More >>
On why the dice are loaded against women in public life
Tuesday, 21 January 2020, 11:05 am | Gordon Campbell
If they enter public life, women can expect a type of intense (and contradictory) scrutiny that is rarely applied to their male counterparts. If they are relatively young and conventionally attractive, such women will tend to be written off as lightweights ... More >>
Chilling The Warm Fuzzies About The US/China Trade Deal
Friday, 17 January 2020, 12:29 pm | Gordon Campbell
Hold the champagne, folks. This week’s China/US deal is more about a change in tone between the world’s two biggest economies – thank goodness they’re not slapping more tariffs on each other! - than a landmark change in substance. The high ... More >>
On The Excellent School Climate Change Resources
Wednesday, 15 January 2020, 10:10 am | Gordon Campbell
Inevitably, children hear a lot about climate change - on the news, on the street, from their friends – and a lot of that news is pretty scary, even for adults. Until very recently, one place where children haven’t heard much about climate change ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Harry/Meghan affair, and Iran
Monday, 13 January 2020, 12:16 pm | Gordon Campbell
Those “Meghzit” headlines seem apt, given how closely Britain’s January 31 exit from the European Union resembles the imminent departure from the Royal Family’s top team of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. In both cases, there will be a quest ... More >>
On the Iran aftermath
Thursday, 9 January 2020, 11:33 am | Gordon Campbell
So, evidently, you can get away with murder. It looks as though a further escalation in the ongoing war between Iran and the US has been avoided – mainly thanks to Iran NOT responding in kind to the recklessly unhinged behaviour by the United States. ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Aussie bush fires and Suleimani
Monday, 6 January 2020, 12:20 pm | Gordon Campbell
In popular culture, Australia is often portrayed as Western civilisation’s last unspoiled frontier, or as its final refuge from planetary disaster. In Nevil Shute’s best-selling 1950s novel On The Beach for instance, Melbourne served as the backdrop ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the best music of 2019
Thursday, 19 December 2019, 12:55 pm | Gordon Campbell
A ny best music list of this sort has to live under the shadow of this offering on the Reductress site . Especially in a year where so many of the highlights came from female musicians. And not just from the obvious names (Lana Del Rey, FKA twigs, ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Scotland’s renewed independence battle
Wednesday, 18 December 2019, 12:31 pm | Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell on a White Island inquiry
Monday, 16 December 2019, 11:57 am | Gordon Campbell
Presumably, if there is to be a ministerial inquiry (at the very least) into the Whakaari/White Island disaster, it will need to be a joint ministerial inquiry. That’s because the relevant areas of responsibility seem to be so deeply interwoven : Police ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on welfare vs infrastructure spending
Thursday, 12 December 2019, 11:27 am | Gordon Campbell
If New Zealand has a pressing need to stimulate its flagging economy, it seems very weird that the government is choosing to meet this need with a $12 billion package of infrastructure spending – mainly on road and rail projects – that by definition, ... More >>
