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On The Use Of Existing Drugs To Reduce The Effects Of Coronavirus
Monday, 16 March 2020, 11:07 am | Gordon Campbell
So now, we’re all getting up to speed with the travel bans, the rigorous handwashing and drying, the social distancing, and the avoidance of public transport wherever possible. Right. At a wider level…so far, the public health system has ... More >>
On The Global Panic, And The Local Plans To Deal With Coronavirus
Friday, 13 March 2020, 10:37 am | Gordon Campbell
Yesterday, US President Donald Trump gave Americans and Europeans a lot of good reasons to panic and/or bristle with outrage. Instead of providing leadership and unveiling a practical stimulus package for the US economy, Trump used his Oval Office ... More >>
On The Loss Of Abortion Safe Zones
Wednesday, 11 March 2020, 11:16 am | Gordon Campbell
No doubt, last night’s defeat of abortion law reform provisions that would have created safe zones around abortion clinics will be portrayed, by some, as a victory for free speech. It isn’t. It was a victory for bigotry and intimidation directed ... More >>
On The Oil Price Smackdown, And On National’s Fatuous Crusade Against Red Tape
Tuesday, 10 March 2020, 10:05 am | Gordon Campbell
Safe to say, Vladimir Putin did not expect the response he has received amidships from the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia. Earlier, Russia chose to walk away from the OPEC talks in Vienna that were aimed at reaching an agreement on how to reduce world ... More >>
On 22 Short Takes About Super Tuesday
Thursday, 5 March 2020, 1:04 pm | Gordon Campbell
With obvious apologies to the Simpsons….Here’s my 22 short takes on the 14 Super Tuesday primaries that combined yesterday to produce a common narrative –Bernie Sanders NOT running away with the nomination, Joe Biden coming back from the dead, ... More >>
On Shane Jones As The Liability No-one Needs To Bear Anymore
Tuesday, 3 March 2020, 11:34 am | Gordon Campbell
New Zealand First has needed a diversion after weeks of bad coverage over its dodgy handling of donations, but it really, really doesn’t need what Shane Jones has chosen to provide. According to Jones, New Zealand has ... More >>
On The US (and NATO) Surrender In Afghanistan
Monday, 2 March 2020, 9:40 am | Gordon Campbell
The deal that has just been has struck to end the involvement of the US and its NATO allies in Afghanistan bears the usual hallmarks of deals done by Donald Trump. In this ‘landmark’ Afghan ‘peace’ deal, weakness has been defined as strength, ... More >>
On Where The Politically-donated Bucks Should Be Stopping
Thursday, 27 February 2020, 11:26 am | Gordon Campbell
By now, it seems crystal clear that something is deeply amiss with the way that New Zealand political parties solicit, receive and report their funding. Evidently, the nominal threshold of $15,000 that requires public disclosure of the donation ... More >>
On Bernie Sanders’ Presidential Bid
Tuesday, 25 February 2020, 11:15 am | Gordon Campbell
Bernie Sanders’ campaign for the Democratic nomination is taking on an air of inevitability, and that likelihood has been met with elation by some people, and feelings of dread in others. Is the Vermont senator the party’s best hope of motivating ... More >>
On Our Unreal Optimism About The Economic Impact Of Coronavirus
Thursday, 20 February 2020, 10:05 am | Gordon Campbell
At this week’s Chinese New Year celebrations, PM Jacinda Ardern was resolutely upbeat that business with China would soon bounce back to normal – better than ever, even - once the coronavirus epidemic has been brought under control. To Ardern, ... More >>
On The Political Donations Scandals
Wednesday, 19 February 2020, 11:01 am | Gordon Campbell
Even paranoids have real enemies. While there has been something delusionary about the way New Zealand First has been living in denial about its donations scandal, one can sympathise with its indignation about Paula Bennett and Simon Bridges being ... More >>
On The Addiction To Chinese Student Fees, And A Possible Future For RNZ Concert
Monday, 17 February 2020, 10:35 am | Gordon Campbell
L ast week, Australian PM Scott Morrison extended its ban on foreign visitors from or passing through from mainland China – including Chinese students - for a third week. New Zealand has dutifully followed suit, with our travel ban ... More >>
On The Rise Of Amy Klobuchar And Michael Bloomberg
Thursday, 13 February 2020, 11:03 am | Gordon Campbell
Oh, the burden of being the front-runner. In 2016, when he was still the feisty underdog, Vermont senator Bernie Sanders set his campaign alight by beating Hillary Clinton in neighbouring New Hampshire by a resounding 60-39% margin. Yesterday, Sanders ... More >>
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 >>
