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Gordon Campbell on the talks with North Korea
Tuesday, 5 June 2018, 1:15 pm | Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell on what we can expect from the talks with North Korea First published on Werewolf More >>
Gordon Campbell on the carnage being caused by Police pursuits
Thursday, 31 May 2018, 12:36 pm | Gordon Campbell
Must be that time again. Time for the Independent Police Complaints Authority (IPCA) to produce yet another review of the high speed pursuit policy, which the Police will no doubt ignore, and shelve alongside all the others. They’re consistent like ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on showing love to farmers over M Bovis
Tuesday, 29 May 2018, 12:13 pm | Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell on showing maximum love to farmers over M Bovis First published on Werewolf More >>
Gordon Campbell on the M bovis outbreak
Thursday, 24 May 2018, 12:46 pm | Gordon Campbell
A s the public keeps on being told, there is no risk at all to human health from cows infected with Mycoplasma bovis. In that respect, it is not at all like mad cow disease. Even so, the M bovis outbreak is still doing the head in of Agriculture ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on why we should be anxious about AI
Wednesday, 23 May 2018, 3:11 pm | Gordon Campbell
Poor old Phil Twyford. Caned by everyone, including his own team – the Prime Minister, the PSA – for saying something so very obvious. Treasury has, and always has had, some people in it with precious little of the life experience relevant to understanding ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on racism and the Windsors
Wednesday, 23 May 2018, 3:08 pm | Gordon Campbell
For all the talk about the modernizing effect that Meghan Markle could have on the Royal Family, the suspicion all along has been that the House of Windsor is resistant to change at any level beyond the purely decorative. Yes, Prince Harry has married ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Budget 2018
Friday, 18 May 2018, 9:56 am | Gordon Campbell
To put it mildly, Budget 2018 has not been an outbreak of wild-eyed, tax and spend liberalism. “Unfortunately not,” says CTU economist Bill Rosenberg agrees laconically. “But what you're seeing and within the constraints [the government] have set themselves, ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on prospects of US talks with North Korea
Friday, 11 May 2018, 11:10 am | Gordon Campbell
On June 12, the leaders of North Korea and the United States will meet across a table in Singapore, and Kim Jong Un must already be feeling giddy at the thought that this meeting is already being described with the word “summit” formerly reserved for ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on nine Trump lies about the Iran deal
Wednesday, 9 May 2018, 12:10 pm | Gordon Campbell
The cascade of Orwellian lies that US President Donald Trump has used to rationalize why his country is reneging on the commitments it made under the Iran nuclear deal should be posing a genuine problem for our media. What Trump has done to the Iran ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on National’s latest attempts at relevance
Tuesday, 8 May 2018, 10:07 am | Gordon Campbell
National has now moved to Plan B in its pose as the only “responsible” party of government. Having ignored the existence of massive problems in health and education for nine years in government, it is no longer politically viable for National for ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on petrol pricing and the midwives march
Friday, 4 May 2018, 11:24 am | Gordon Campbell
The public brawl between Energy Minister Megan Woods and BP looks like spinning off – as brawls tend to do – into a whole array of extraneous matters. Evidently, some people find it hard to see the difference between taxes and profits. More >>
On hostility against journalists & Israel’s lies about Iran
Wednesday, 2 May 2018, 10:52 am | Gordon Campbell
At last count, 32 working journalists had been killed this year up until April 30, and recent weeks have seen the worst period of sustained violence against journalists since the 2015 Charlie Hebdo killings in France. In Kabul on Monday, a suicide bomber ... More >>
On health promises, BP, and the White House correspondents furore
Tuesday, 1 May 2018, 10:44 am | Gordon Campbell
Remember that classic clip of Homer Simpson reacting to news of the government’s best effort at speed –roasting a buffalo? More >>
On the need for immediate action on WINZ
Friday, 27 April 2018, 10:37 am | Gordon Campbell
So the old saying goes, the main difference between the centre-right and centre-left is that both believe in market solutions, but the centre-left spends a lot more time worrying about the effects, afterwards. (If only market capitalism could be nicer ... More >>
On the perils of using PPPs to meet Auckland’s roading needs
Thursday, 26 April 2018, 1:42 pm | Gordon Campbell
More than once, the coalition government has ruled out using public private partnerships (PPPs) to fund the country’s infrastructure needs in health and education – apparently private profiteering in those areas is recognised as being undesirable. Not the same ... More >>
On why France could become our closest ally in Europe
Tuesday, 24 April 2018, 10:22 am | Gordon Campbell
As PM Jacinda Ardern returns from a triumphant tour to Britain and the capitals of Europe, her officials have probably begun to assess what the more substantive gains from the trip might have been. Most of the chatter has been about potential trade ... More >>
On Thompson+ Clark, and Russia’s FIFA World Cup
Friday, 20 April 2018, 11:12 am | Gordon Campbell
Daily, the coalition government keeps running into examples of the toxic legacy left behind by National – and just as regularly, even the simple fixes are proving stubbornly difficult to enact. Take the case of the security firm Thompson + Clark, which has ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the GCSB’s security hang-up with Russia
Wednesday, 18 April 2018, 11:58 am | Gordon Campbell
So our GCSB has chimed in, alongside its British, Australian and US allies, with warnings about a “fresh wave” of Russian cyber attacks, although the warning has been curiously framed : More >>
On the chemical weapons attack (and response) in Syria
Tuesday, 17 April 2018, 12:59 pm | Gordon Campbell
The past week’s headlines about the chemical attacks in Syria - and the military response by the US, France and Britain - have tended to overshadow a few of the downstream outcomes. For starters, the chemical weapons assault on Douma seems to have succeeded ... More >>
On the prevailing media narratives about the Govt coalition
Monday, 16 April 2018, 2:07 pm | Gordon Campbell
The media reports the facts…. but that’s not the end of it, and nor should it be. It also marshals those facts and creates a story from them, usually one with a moral that’s implied or explicit. After six months though, it is still unclear ... More >>
