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Gordon Campbell on journalism, Peters and Ghahraman
Thursday, 30 November 2017, 11:48 am | Gordon Campbell
S o how is journalism faring these days in its Fourth Estate role of (a) speaking truth to power, and (b) keeping its independent distance from those it seeks to monitor… you know, for the public good? Not so great. Of late, the relationship with power ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the political risks of the oil price
Tuesday, 28 November 2017, 11:31 am | Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell on the political risks of the rising price of oil, and Harry/Meghan First published on Werewolf More >>
Gordon Campbell on National’s student/beneficiary bashing
Monday, 27 November 2017, 11:35 am | Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell on National’s penchant for bashing (a) students and (b) beneficiaries First published on Werewolf More >>
Gordon Campbell: Zimbabwe, on the morning after…
Thursday, 23 November 2017, 11:59 am | Gordon Campbell
At 75, Mnangagwa is not exactly what you’d call a new broom. As many observers have pointed out, his track record has been one of unswerving dedication to Mugabe ever since the days of anti-colonial insurgency... More >>
Zimbabwe: new democracy, or a false dawn?
Wednesday, 22 November 2017, 11:30 am | Gordon Campbell
R obert Mugabe = Hosni Mubarak. The current jubilation on the streets of Harare at the fall of Zimbabwe’s dictator Robert Mugabe is genuine, and one hates to be negative about the country’s future. Yet the situation is eerily similar to the ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the new Pike River agency
Tuesday, 21 November 2017, 11:26 am | Gordon Campbell
Much of the sympathy the public still feels for the families of the Pike River miners has been sustained by the sense that the previous government – let alone the mining company and the processes of receivership and litigation - has never dealt honestly, ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the centre right’s love of 'nanny state'
Thursday, 16 November 2017, 11:56 am | Gordon Campbell
L ike clockwork, the old ‘nanny state’ criticism has been wheeled out this week by the National Party and lapped up just as predictably by the mainstream media . More >>
Gordon Campbell: Saudi Arabia seems out of control
Wednesday, 15 November 2017, 10:42 am | Gordon Campbell
Is This Guy the World’s Most Dangerous Thirtysomething? Saudi Arabia seems out of control by Gordon Campbell First published on Werewolf More >>
Gordon Campbell on the TPP outcome, and the Hobbit law
Monday, 13 November 2017, 11:55 am | Gordon Campbell
W hen even Justin Trudeau seems willing to abandon you by the wayside, you know you’re in trouble. Yet somehow the Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal has come lurching back from the dead – and as predicted in this column last week, the member ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Ardern’s trade battles at APEC
Thursday, 9 November 2017, 11:53 am | Gordon Campbell
R esurrections are rarely pain free. Coming back from the dead changes you – in the Bible, and on Buffy The Vampire Slayer alike. It should therefore come as no surprise that this week’s attempt to resurrect the Trans Pacific Partnership trade ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the battle over select committees
Tuesday, 7 November 2017, 11:16 am | Gordon Campbell
O ver the past 30 years, so many of our economic theories, health, education and law and order policies, and surveillance activities by the state have been imported from the United States. Basically, our politicians – National, Labour and Act – ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: Devising National’s comeback
Tuesday, 31 October 2017, 10:44 am | Gordon Campbell
How the backroom strategists might be concocting National’s battle plan… More >>
Across the generational divide in politics
Thursday, 26 October 2017, 12:13 pm | Gordon Campbell
Across the generational divide in politics Most of the criticism of the Ardern government has come from market dinosaurs by Gordon Campbell First Published on Werewolf More >>
Gordon Campbell on the fear of change
Wednesday, 25 October 2017, 12:43 pm | Gordon Campbell
C hange isn’t the same old menu, with merely a better range of desserts. As New Zealand has woken from its nine-year slumber to confront National’s dire legacy of social and economic neglect, the changes involved are going to be extensive. Everything ... More >>
Is Kaiser Bill alive and well in the White House?
Tuesday, 17 October 2017, 3:32 pm | Gordon Campbell
T he Passchendaele centenary commemorations were held last week. Amid the military rituals, there was a notable lack of commentary on the imperial platitudes that sent those young soldiers off to kill and be killed. That seems unacceptable, today. Even ... More >>
What does Winston Peters want his legacy to be?
Thursday, 12 October 2017, 10:58 am | Gordon Campbell
A lot of people in New Zealand seem to resent Winston Peters and the power that he appears to have. “Appears” being the operative word. In reality, Peters will have power only up to the point that he uses it. By next week, he’ll have become ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Peters’ end game in the coalition talks
Thursday, 5 October 2017, 11:35 am | Gordon Campbell
W e’re now entering the Agatha Christie phase of the coalition negotiations, given that all the main characters have been summoned to the drawing room today by M. Hercule Peters. Although the resolution of the plot will take a few days yet, one can bet ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: Which way will New Zealand First jump?
Thursday, 28 September 2017, 12:16 pm | Gordon Campbell
How relevant will Peters treat his own party policy to his final decision? by Gordon Campbell More >>
Gordon Campbell: PPPs are Steven Joyce’s new imaginary friend
Tuesday, 26 September 2017, 12:16 pm | Gordon Campbell
L ike the kid in that Bruce Willis movie who could see dead people, Finance Minister Steven Joyce can see stuff (like holes in Labour budgets) that no-one else can see. So maybe it shouldn’t be all that surprising that Joyce can also see ‘efficiencies’ ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the election result and likely road ahead
Monday, 25 September 2017, 12:12 pm | Gordon Campbell
A government led by Bill English and Winston Peters would be a more conservative one – particularly on social issues – than any we experienced during the Key years. If, say, Peters’ oft repeated call for a referendum on the Maori seats becomes ... More >>
