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Gordon Campbell on our addiction to the monarchy
Thursday, 25 October 2018, 11:07 am | Gordon Campbell
Of all the major outposts of Empire, New Zealand has always been the very last to shed its fascination with the British royals. More >>
Gordon Campbell on the polls and National’s leadership
Wednesday, 24 October 2018, 11:15 am | Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell on what the polls say about National’s leadership First published on Werewolf More >>
Gordon Campbell: The West’s role arming Khashoggi’s killers
Tuesday, 23 October 2018, 11:00 am | Gordon Campbell
The cliché about one death being a tragedy and a million deaths only a statistic has been demonstrated in spades by the murder of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. More >>
Gordon Campbell on Jami-Lee Ross, and the Hobbit law
Thursday, 18 October 2018, 10:06 am | Gordon Campbell
C learly, Jami-Lee Ross is not waging a normal form of political warfare, with agreed rules of combat and rational cost/benefit calculations. This is politics-as-terrorism where everything is being sacrificed by the man in the bomb vest in order to remove ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Jami-Lee Ross Saga
Tuesday, 16 October 2018, 9:56 am | Gordon Campbell
W e can agree that some forms of behaviour are quite beyond the pale. When the cult leader takes more than one wife, it is time to leave the compound. Similarly, secretly taping your political leader and threatening to release the contents in public is ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on why the highly educated vote centre-left
Monday, 15 October 2018, 12:14 pm | Gordon Campbell
The people protesting the name change from “Victoria University” to the “University of Wellington” really are giving conservatism a bad name. It seems decidedly odd to treat this issue as the bridgehead from which to mount a defence of tradition ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the govt’s feeble response to loan sharks
Thursday, 11 October 2018, 12:35 pm | Gordon Campbell
When it comes down to protecting the most vulnerable, Parliament can sometimes move at glacial pace, and do the bare minimum. The coalition government’s attempts to minimise the harm done by loan sharks comes nearly 12 years after a major report ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: the political cost of rising petrol prices
Tuesday, 9 October 2018, 11:46 am | Gordon Campbell
O ver the course of National’s entire term of office… it had the great good fortune that high global oil prices rarely coincided with a low Kiwi dollar, and so the price of petrol never became a major item on the political agenda. No such ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the ongoing battles over free speech
Monday, 8 October 2018, 12:21 pm | Gordon Campbell
F ree speech controversies – and the threats to freedom of expression posed by city councils and university administrators – rarely have to do with the opinions of those lacking a public platform. Hurtful though the actions of the Massey University ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on bringing business into the 21st century
Thursday, 4 October 2018, 12:46 pm | Gordon Campbell
G ood to see that Business NZ has had the good grace to applaud the government’s latest handout to its members . From now on it seems, firms will only need to re-invest a paltry $50,000 in research and development – half the previous amount – to ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the teachers' struggle
Wednesday, 3 October 2018, 11:40 am | Gordon Campbell
These days, strike action is essentially a game of three dimensional chess, and the industrial stoppages coming our way in education are a case in point. From the outset, the teacher organizations will have to inconvenience the public, but without alienating ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on why we shouldn’t pledge NZF's values
Monday, 1 October 2018, 12:06 pm | Gordon Campbell
So, at its annual conference on the weekend, New Zealand First voted to introduce legislation forcing new migrants and refugees to sign a pledge that they’ll abide by a list of “ New Zealand values” - presumably, as a condition of entry to this ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Elizabeth Warren’s plans
Thursday, 27 September 2018, 1:00 pm | Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell on Elizabeth Warren’s plan to save capitalism from itself First published on Werewolf More >>
Gordon Campbell on the party of no ideas
Wednesday, 26 September 2018, 1:17 pm | Gordon Campbell
T he striking thing about the issues that have political coverage over the past few months is the almost total lack of policy content to any of them. To date, Her Majesty’s Opposition hasn’t shown the slightest interest in offering a competing ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Bridges’ ‘meth crooks’ leadership failure
Tuesday, 25 September 2018, 12:01 pm | Gordon Campbell
G iven that National Party leader Simon Bridges has made consistency and strong leadership the cornerstones of his attacks upon the coalition government, his own massive backflip on the meth compensation issue has been unfortunate, to say the ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Tax Working Group’s road map
Thursday, 20 September 2018, 5:20 pm | Gordon Campbell
T rying to analyse the interim report on the Tax Working Group (TWG) is like trying to review an entire All Blacks game, but at the half- time mark. With so much still to be finalised, Sir Michael Cullen and his colleagues are going to need all the ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Kavanaugh case and women’s suffrage
Wednesday, 19 September 2018, 1:01 pm | Gordon Campbell
Today is suffrage day when – reportedly – we celebrate women winning a political voice, and ensuring that their voices are heard, respected, and acted upon, despite all the attempts to ignore and silence then. The Kavanaugh story puts all those issues ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on our military roles in Iraq & Afghanistan
Tuesday, 18 September 2018, 12:41 pm | Gordon Campbell
Yesterday, PM Jacinda Ardern committed this country to an extension of our military deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan, pending a review early next year of what their future purpose might be. More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Ardern pep talk
Monday, 17 September 2018, 1:01 pm | Gordon Campbell
The intolerance being shown as this process unfolds in New Zealand betrays our depressing appetite for a tidily totalitarian style of government where everyone is expected to march in lockstep. More >>
Gordon Campbell on the rising cost of petrol
Thursday, 13 September 2018, 11:07 am | Gordon Campbell
What’s up with the global price of oil? Unsurprisingly, there are several scenarios out there about where oil prices are headed. Most of them envisage the price going up – maybe even way up – over the next 18-24 months, starting about now. Only ... More >>
