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Gordon Campbell on yesterday’s electricity price review
Wednesday, 12 September 2018, 11:03 am | Gordon Campbell
Y esterday’s initial report on the cost of electricity pricing is but the first step in a process that will not see any government response until next May, after the Electricity Price Review’s final report has been presented. However, yesterday’s ... More >>
Are Only Old People Likely to Vote for Simon Bridges?
Tuesday, 11 September 2018, 11:49 am | Gordon Campbell
A round the world, young people seem to be gravitating to left wing policies and parties, leaving the old to prop up the conservative parties. A Godzilla-sized generation gap now exists in political preferences worldwide, and the size of the gap suggests ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the fuss over the PM’s Pacific Forum Trip
Wednesday, 5 September 2018, 11:55 am | Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell on the fuss and fighting over the PM’s Pacific Forum trip First published on Werewolf More >>
Gordon Campbell on trying to cheer up the business sector
Monday, 3 September 2018, 11:47 am | Gordon Campbell
Why on earth is it seen to be Jacinda Ardern’s problem when business chooses to whine on about its lack of confidence, and its lack of ‘certainty’ – as if it were ever the role of government to deliver risk-free profits to the private sector? ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the continuing Manning saga, and BTS
Thursday, 30 August 2018, 11:40 am | Gordon Campbell
T he National Party has played fast and loose with the facts during its campaign to deny an entry visa to the American LGBTQ activist Chelsea Manning. First, National’s immigration spokesperson Michael Woodhouse claimed “other countries” had refused ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: National’s crusade against Chelsea Manning
Wednesday, 29 August 2018, 10:04 am | Gordon Campbell
So the National Party wants the government to deny Chelsea Manning a visa for her two speaking engagements in mid September, and it would have already done so if it was still in power. Good to know. More >>
Gordon Campbell on counting the cost from the Bridges leak
Tuesday, 28 August 2018, 10:38 am | Gordon Campbell
T he care and protection being extended to the alleged mental health problems of the anonymous texter/leaker of Simon Bridges’ travel costs now seem to have got utterly, insanely out of proportion. The leaker is either a National MP or (less ... More >>
Is Amy Klobuchar Our Best Hope to Defeat Donald Trump?
Thursday, 23 August 2018, 10:23 am | Gordon Campbell
S ure, there are a few people who think Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin being pals will usher in a new age of global peace, and that it's the new McCarthyism for anyone to suggest otherwise. Yet to the rest of us… the re-election of Trump in 2020 is ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on MP pay and the REAL p.c. danger zone
Tuesday, 21 August 2018, 11:16 am | Gordon Campbell
There has never been anything remotely credible about the way parliamentarians would paint themselves as the helpless victims of the Remuneration Authority when it came to their pay increases. More >>
Gordon Campbell on another reason to loathe HR departments
Thursday, 16 August 2018, 11:46 am | Gordon Campbell
This morning’s news item about Police emergency call centre staff turning up for work while they’re sick – because they’re afraid their sick leave statistics will be used against them – is not an isolated case. More >>
Gordon Campbell on the stereotypes about Jacinda Ardern
Tuesday, 14 August 2018, 12:13 pm | Gordon Campbell
O n Monday, Act MP David Seymour’s depiction of PM Jacinda Ardern as a clueless lightweight was yet another example of the double bind faced by women who attain positions of political power. Routinely, female politicians get depicted as either ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the EU’s battle with Washington over Iran
Thursday, 9 August 2018, 10:43 am | Gordon Campbell
EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini used the occasion in Wellington to challenge the White House intensely, over Iran. More >>
Gordon Campbell on worrying about business confidence
Tuesday, 7 August 2018, 12:06 pm | Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell on why worrying about business confidence is a wasted effort First posted on Werewolf More >>
Gordon Campbell on the nurses dispute, Zimbabwe, and Iran
Thursday, 2 August 2018, 11:36 am | Gordon Campbell
No more money was supposedly available to resolve the nurses dispute. Yet in the wake of industrial action taken by the nurses, another $38 million has been found to enable DHBs to start recruiting further staff immediately, and to deploy them ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Peters regency, and Imran Khan
Tuesday, 31 July 2018, 3:14 pm | Gordon Campbell
I f Jacinda Ardern is the mother of the nation, Winston Peters is rapidly turning into its kindly old uncle. Come the stroke of midnight Wednesday, Ardern will resume the role of Prime Minister. Since its unlikely that either she or Clarke Gayford ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on National’s obsolescence, and the Greens
Monday, 30 July 2018, 11:53 am | Gordon Campbell
N early a year after the party lost the 2017 election, the weekend’s National Party conference felt like one of those Sunday nights on RNZ, when everyone can forget about all the modern stuff and tune back into the way we were. Somehow, someone thought ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Wellington’s bus experiment
Thursday, 26 July 2018, 10:45 am | Gordon Campbell
Is the result a better, safer, cheaper, quicker and more convenient service than what it replaced? You must be kidding. More >>
Gordon Campbell on why Japan is our new best friend
Tuesday, 24 July 2018, 11:40 am | Gordon Campbell
O n Thursday, Acting PM Winston Peters will be playing host to the nearest thing to his doppelganger in the Asia-Pacific region. Like Peters, Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso is a dapper conservative in his seventies who has been described as a “pugnacious ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on why the US needs MMP
Thursday, 19 July 2018, 11:32 am | Gordon Campbell
A fter the bizarre events this week in Helsinki, the world will be hoping and praying that the US midterm elections in November can put a restraining brake on the presidency of Donald Trump. This may happen, but there’s a highly undemocratic reason why ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the White House romance with Russia
Tuesday, 17 July 2018, 12:28 pm | Gordon Campbell
D ecades ago a US political cartoonist conveyed a key problem with journalism as we know it. Basically, the illustration showed a male reporter leaping out of bed and lacing up his shoes, while overhead a sky full of missiles marked “Political ... More >>
