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Gordon Campbell: Could a Kiwi Boris suspend Parliament?
Wednesday, 2 October 2019, 10:46 am | Gordon Campbell
Interesting piece in yesterday’s NZ Herald about the unanimous decision by the British Supreme Court that it was unlawful for PM Boris Johnson to suspend Parliament in the run-up to Brexit. Interesting because the two experts cited at length – ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Saudis (not) getting away with murder
Tuesday, 1 October 2019, 12:41 pm | Gordon Campbell
On October 2nd last year, the dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered inside the Saudi Embassy in Istanbul, by a hit squad of assassins acting on the orders of the Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammad bin Salman. Regardless, the Trump White House has ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the media falling out of love with Ardern
Thursday, 26 September 2019, 12:27 pm | Gordon Campbell
Of late, the mainstream media has plainly been suffering from Jacinda fatigue, and is going out of its way to bite the hand it used to lick. Too bad. IMO the sensible antidote to Jacinda-mania isn’t this anti-Jacinda (middle of the) road rage. Especially ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Greta Thunberg and Friday climate actions
Wednesday, 25 September 2019, 11:59 am | Gordon Campbell
While there’s been an understandable focus by the media upon Greta Thunberg as her generation’s galvanising voice on climate change, one remarkable thing about the movement she has inspired is that it is so de-centralised. More >>
Gordon Campbell on the RWC, and the Op Burnham inquiry
Monday, 23 September 2019, 11:09 am | Gordon Campbell
Last week’s cross-examination of the military’s former top brass demonstrated in detail that the NZDF had consistently misled its Ministers (and the wider public) for years, over the impact of our military activities in Afghanistan. More >>
Gordon Campbell on abortion law reform
Thursday, 19 September 2019, 9:32 am | Gordon Campbell
Abortion is such a polarising issue that politicians commonly avoid it like the plague. Co-incidentally though, New Zealand and New South Wales are both trying to reform their abortion laws right now, at exactly the same time – and in our case, that ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Saudi oil refinery crisis
Tuesday, 17 September 2019, 2:32 pm | Gordon Campbell
So the US and the Saudis claim to have credible evidence that those Weapons of Oil Destruction came from Iran, their current bogey now that Saddam Hussein is no longer available. Evidently, the world has learned nothing from the invasion of Iraq in ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on allegations of left wing media bias
Monday, 16 September 2019, 10:19 am | Gordon Campbell
The “left wing bias” accusation dates back at least to the mid 1990s, when complaints of left wing bias were commonly being levelled at RNZ’s Morning Report programme, largely by National MPs discomfited by being interviewed by Kim Hill. The charge ... More >>
On Labour’s mishandling of the alleged sexual assault
Thursday, 12 September 2019, 10:44 am | Gordon Campbell
The focus of Labour’s alleged sexual assault scandal has now shifted from the party organisation to the Beehive. Earlier this week, once the scandal took the shape of PM Jacinda Ardern being mis-informed by party president Nigel Haworth about the nature ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the SIS/GCSB’s compliance with torture
Tuesday, 10 September 2019, 10:24 am | Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell on this week’s damning report into the SIS/GCSB’s tacit compliance with torture More >>
Gordon Campbell on China and Hong Kong, and Boris
Thursday, 5 September 2019, 12:30 pm | Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell on China’s concessions to Hong Kong’s protest movement and Johnson’s Waterloo First published on Werewolf More >>
Gordon Campbell on combatting the measles outbreaks
Wednesday, 4 September 2019, 11:05 am | Gordon Campbell
At Monday’s post-Cabinet press conference, the director-general of Health Dr. Ashley Bloomfield predicted that the current measles outbreaks will peak in about two weeks time. Let's hope. Let's also hope that the causes of the measles outbreaks will be ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on ensuring Boris gets blamed for Brexit
Monday, 2 September 2019, 11:35 am | Gordon Campbell
In the face of Boris Johnson’s latest provocations, the best response for Remainers and Tory rebels alike would be… to do nothing at all. Everyone needs to step back and let Johnson have his ‘no deal’ Brexit More >>
Gordon Campbell on National's cheap politics on gun reform
Thursday, 29 August 2019, 11:52 am | Gordon Campbell
“The best reforms are made against the demands of your own base.” In the wake of the Port Arthur massacre, Tim Fischer chose not to pander to his own party’s worst short term instincts. (He did the same when publicly rejecting the bigotry ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on our suicide rates, and Prince Andrew
Tuesday, 27 August 2019, 11:37 am | Gordon Campbell
Since yesterday’s release of the Chief Coroners provisional statistics on our suicide rates, most of the commentary has focused on the need to fund families, schools and communities with better resources to prevent the incidence of suicide – which the ... More >>
On why New Zealand shouldn’t try to curry favour with Trump
Friday, 23 August 2019, 12:22 pm | Gordon Campbell
The bizarre spat over Donald Trump trying to buy Greenland shows just how foolish it would be for any country to treat the US as a reliable ally these days. Obviously, there is no lasting benefit to be gained from doing your bit in any traditional alliance ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Commerce Commission fuel report
Wednesday, 21 August 2019, 11:48 am | Gordon Campbell
O il companies have always struggled to win public affection. Over the past 20 years, Gallup’s annual US poll of public perceptions of the leading business sectors has found oil companies either coming in dead last in public esteem, or sitting just ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Hong Kong protest movement
Monday, 19 August 2019, 12:27 pm | Gordon Campbell
Nearly ten weeks after the huge Hong Kong protests began, managing to still get 1.7 million people onto the streets in the rain is a testament to how strong the pro-democracy movement has become . More >>
Gordon Campbell on why Boris is threatening to shoot a puppy
Wednesday, 14 August 2019, 11:53 am | Gordon Campbell
It may help to think of the October 31 ‘no deal’ Brexit as a warm, rascally puppy. And British PM Boris Johnson has made it clear that he will shoot that puppy, unless someone stops him. Look, Johnson is as good as saying, here I go across the room ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on NZ First and the ban on prisoner voting
Monday, 12 August 2019, 11:07 am | Gordon Campbell
Justice Minister Andrew Little has indicated that he will be taking a paper to Cabinet with the aim of repealing the ban. Good luck with that. The road block at Cabinet is likely to be New Zealand First, which also derailed Little’s attempt to repeal ... More >>
