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Gordon Campbell on tax dodges, and the Brexit vote
Wednesday, 13 March 2019, 11:07 am | Gordon Campbell
Good grief, 2019 is proving to be such a bad year for the Kiwi way of life, which – patriots beware! – is under attack on all fronts by the IRD. More >>
Gordon Campbell on Shane Jones, and a Huawei update
Tuesday, 12 March 2019, 11:44 am | Gordon Campbell
F or better and worse, this is a small country, and the business community in Northland is smaller still. Beyond that again, the sources of venture capital for Maori business endeavours up North must be vanishingly small. Therefore, almost from its inception, ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the handling of sexual assault complaints
Thursday, 7 March 2019, 12:40 pm | Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell on the handling of sexual assault complaints (and ticket scalping) First published on Werewolf More >>
Gordon Campbell on justice for Kiwi jihadis
Tuesday, 5 March 2019, 9:53 am | Gordon Campbell
Mark Taylor, the Kiwi recruit to ISIS, ultimately put himself in the hands of the Kurdish forces in northern Syria . More >>
Gordon Campbell on why Justin Trudeau’s fate matters to NZ
Monday, 4 March 2019, 10:59 am | Gordon Campbell
The scandal now engulfing Justin Trudeau and his Liberal Party is the kind of train wreck that confirms the public’s worst feelings about politicians and their back-room dealings. The fact that the Mr Nice Guy of global politics is at the centre of it ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: Why Saudi Arabia shouldn’t get to buy nukes
Thursday, 28 February 2019, 9:48 am | Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell on why this guy shouldn’t be allowed to buy nuclear weapons Gordon Campbell on why this guy shouldn’t be allowed to buy nuclear weapons More >>
Gordon Campbell on National’s cosy relationship with China
Tuesday, 26 February 2019, 10:48 am | Gordon Campbell
While former PM Jenny Shipley did not write the notorious op ed that appeared under her byline recently in a Chinese newspaper , the article was based on an interview she gave to the newspaper in December. More to the point, the op ed’s content seemed ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Sir Michael Cullen’s tax reform
Thursday, 21 February 2019, 4:46 pm | Gordon Campbell
To ordinary wage and salary earners who (a) watch a slice of their gross income being taxed every week via PAYE and who also (b) pay GST on every single thing they buy, there has been something quite surreal about the centre-right’s angry and anguished ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the anti-Corbyn split in British Labour
Wednesday, 20 February 2019, 10:57 am | Gordon Campbell
WTF? The resignation of seven UK Labour MPs in protest against the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn is another example of the centre-left’s readiness to sabotage its own cause – such things are always allegedly done on principle – even if the ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the alleged China relations crisis
Tuesday, 19 February 2019, 12:07 pm | Gordon Campbell
If New Zealand’s relations with China are ‘deteriorating’ then you still need a microscope to detect the signs. Yes, maybe PM Jacinda Ardern might have fallen behind Japanese PM Shinzo Abe on the priority list last year for a state visit, but ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on America’s ‘Green New Deal’
Thursday, 14 February 2019, 1:01 pm | Gordon Campbell
D uring his recent State of the Union address, US President Donald Trump’s ringingly declared to his fellow Americans that “We will never be a socialist country!” To which someone online added the sarcastic sub-head: ‘Except for public education, ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Iran 40 years after its revolution
Wednesday, 13 February 2019, 11:50 am | Gordon Campbell
As it turns 40 years of age this week, Iran’s Islamic Revolution is experiencing a fullblown mid-life crisis. Thanks largely to last year’s fresh round of US economic sanctions, Iran’s domestic economy went into steep decline during the last half ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Nelson fire and climate change
Tuesday, 12 February 2019, 11:02 am | Gordon Campbell
The Nelson fire has been a useful warning of things to come, given how climate change will (a) increase the likelihood of reduced rainfall and drought-like conditions in many parts of New Zealand, which – obviously – will raise (b) the fire danger ... More >>
On why we shouldn’t support the US-led coup in Venezuela
Thursday, 7 February 2019, 11:47 am | Gordon Campbell
There’s a decidedly retro feel to the US-engineered coup now unfolding in Venezuela, which looks like a throwback to the 1950s, back when the US could overthrow any country (Iran 1953, Guatemala 1954) that posed a problem ( or presented an opportunity) for ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on why the Aussie banks are bastards
Tuesday, 5 February 2019, 12:03 pm | Gordon Campbell
F amously, Sherlock Holmes once concluded that it can be the watchdog’s failure to bark that is of the greatest significance. In the Conan Doyle story Silver Blaze – it’s about a missing racehorse – Inspector Gregory asks, “Is there any ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on listening to Ocasio-Cortez about tax
Monday, 4 February 2019, 12:42 pm | Gordon Campbell
T ax is always an ideological hot button. Those key equations tax = bad and tax cuts = good have been hammered into our brains over the past three decades in much the same way that the virtues of egalitarianism were taken for granted by a previous ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on National’s tax handouts
Thursday, 31 January 2019, 11:40 am | Gordon Campbell
T hank the Lord that there’s an alternative to this wicked “Tax and Spend” coalition government. Yesterday, National leader Simon Bridges unveiled a heavenly vision of a “Not Tax But Still Spend” government. Somehow, National will tax ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on National’s new blue-green partner
Tuesday, 29 January 2019, 12:03 pm | Gordon Campbell
Every year around about this time, National floats its own distinct vision of a different sort of Green Party. More >>
Gordon Campbell on the US exit from Afghanistan
Monday, 28 January 2019, 9:37 am | Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell on why we should care about the US exit from Afghanistan First published on Werewolf More >>
Gordon Campbell on Ardern, Davos, and the wellbeing schtick
Thursday, 24 January 2019, 10:53 am | Gordon Campbell
T he word “well-being” has a nice warm ring to it. So much so that the ‘wellbeing budget’ being touted by PM Jacinda Ardern at the rich folks’ club in Davos, Switzerland sounds more like a marketing slogan than an actual policy initiative. Still, it is ... More >>
