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Gordon Campbell on Labour’s policy resurgence, and Alex Chilton

Tuesday, 4 July 2017, 11:06 am | Gordon Campbell

F or much of this year, almost all the diversity in politics has been down at the retail end, where apparent differences reside in the tone, and in details. Up at the wholesale end – in the economic settings that drive the engine of politics ... More >>

Gordon Campbell on Peter Thiel’s bad attitude problem

Monday, 3 July 2017, 11:02 am | Gordon Campbell

S o far, we haven’t been able to find what Peter Thiel may have said about us on Trip Advisor, after those four lightning trips he made here, totalling 12 days in all – but I’m sure he liked us. Really liked us. Funny though that our alleged ... More >>

Gordon Campbell on the EU’s beef with Google

Wednesday, 28 June 2017, 11:40 am | Gordon Campbell

T here’s every indication that Google would be on a losing wicket if it chooses to fight the European Union competition watchdogs, who have just levied a $3.3 billion fine on the firm – with the prospect of worse to come if Google doesn’t quickly ... More >>

Gordon Campbell on the America’s Cup

Tuesday, 27 June 2017, 12:22 pm | Gordon Campbell

W ith hindsight, the $5 million that then-Economic Development Minister Steven Joyce grudgingly allocated back in 2013 to keep the America’s Cup squad together has proved to be one of the government’s more successful exercises in belt tightening. ... More >>

Gordon Campbell on the fallout from the Barclay tape

Thursday, 22 June 2017, 11:01 am | Gordon Campbell

T odd Barclay – soft exit or hard exit? Anyone feeling that the watchdog roles of the media and Parliament have seen justice done to the scoundrel behind the taping scandal…well, maybe they should think again. This is hardly a case of cleaning ... More >>

Gordon Campbell on the Todd Barclay cover-up

Wednesday, 21 June 2017, 10:09 am | Gordon Campbell

Gordon Campbell on the Todd Barclay cover-up (and the GCSB's support for Groser) More >>

Gordon Campbell on our refugee intake, and Uber’s woes

Tuesday, 20 June 2017, 2:49 pm | Gordon Campbell

O n figures released this week, there are currently 65.6 million people worldwide who have been displaced from their homes by war, famine or other external causes. Faced with this explosion in the global need for sanctuary, New Zealand announced ... More >>

Gordon Campbell: The lessons of the London tower block fire

Thursday, 15 June 2017, 10:55 am | Gordon Campbell

Gordon Campbell on the lessons of the London tower block fire First published on Werewolf More >>

Gordon Campbell on anti-immigration gambit Labour, & Israel

Wednesday, 14 June 2017, 12:13 pm | Gordon Campbell

C alls for a crackdown on public money being wasted on low quality educational courses? That’s always a perennial topic in any election year. Back in 2005, it was National’s education spokesman – a guy called Bill English – who led the charge against ... More >>

Gordon Campbell on the lessons from Corbyn’s campaign

Monday, 12 June 2017, 10:39 am | Gordon Campbell

L eaving partisan politics aside - and ignoring Jeremy Corbyn’s sensational election campaign for a moment - it has to be said that Britain is now really up shit creek. The clock is ticking on its Article 50 exit. Triggering article 50 at the end of ... More >>

Gordon Campbell on the limits of political loyalty

Friday, 9 June 2017, 11:34 am | Gordon Campbell

I n the wake of the Comey testimony, one of Donald Trump’s White House defenders has claimed in her boss’s defence: “The President is not a liar.” Inevitably, that comment conjures up memories of Richard Nixon’s immortal line: “I am not ... More >>

Gordon Campbell on Tillerson’s problems with Trump

Wednesday, 7 June 2017, 11:53 am | Gordon Campbell

Photo: Mark Tanturm Y esterday, as US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson made his flying five hour visit to New Zealand, Foreign Policy magazine put its finger on why other leaders in the Asia-Pacific region have been left feeling deeply sceptical ... More >>

Gordon Campbell on the Rex Tillerson visit

Monday, 5 June 2017, 7:08 pm | Gordon Campbell

A visit to this country by a serving US Secretary of State is such a rare event that Rex Tillerson will be welcomed in style in Wellington tomorrow – even though the former ExxonMobil CEO could fairly be described as the least influential person in ... More >>

Gordon Campbell on the causes of poverty

Wednesday, 31 May 2017, 12:32 pm | Gordon Campbell

O ne of the enduring myths of the conservative right is that poverty is primarily a state of mind, and that welfare assistance only corrodes the mindset necessary for people to pull themselves out of poverty. Such views have been given a new lease ... More >>

Gordon Campbell on the twists in the UK election

Monday, 29 May 2017, 11:16 am | Gordon Campbell

T he main reason Theresa May chose to call a snap election for June 8 in Britain was because the Tories firmly believed that a British Labour Party led by Jeremy Corbyn couldn’t and wouldn’t pose any threat. Instead, the Conservatives’ original ... More >>

Gordon Campbell on yesterday’s Budget

Friday, 26 May 2017, 12:13 pm | Gordon Campbell

I t may seem like Oliver to be so bold as to ask the Finance Minister for more gruel – but what the Dickens, Steven Joyce… is this Budget really as good as it gets? Supposedly, the public was going to receive significant rewards – an election year ... More >>