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On The West’s War Against Iran
Monday, 16 June 2025, 12:12 pm | Gordon Campbell
The world needs to stop talking about Israel’s right to defend itself, & start talking about the world’s need to defend itself against Israel. Gaza, Lebanon, Iran....these have become the stepping stones in Israel’s plan to expand its rule, More >>
On The Making Of King Donald
Thursday, 12 June 2025, 11:03 am | Gordon Campbell
After decades of watching the US prop up dictatorships there’s a certain irony in seeing authoritarian rule play out on the streets of Los Angeles. Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to quell (initially) peaceful protests has been deliberately ... More >>
On Free Speech And Anti-Semitism
Monday, 9 June 2025, 1:14 pm | Gordon Campbell
For the record: the haka in Parliament did not disrupt the taking of the first reading vote on The Treaty Principles Bill. It occurred after the votes from the other political parties had been cast and tallied, as the footage from Parliament clearly shows. More >>
On Why The Regulatory Standards Bill Should Be Dumped
Wednesday, 4 June 2025, 11:21 am | Gordon Campbell
If you blinked on a recent Friday afternoon, you might have missed the passing under urgency of the first reading of the Regulatory Standards Bill. The Bill purports to be a kind of legislative WOF test that all of us should welcome, right? More >>
On Why Leakers Are Essential To The Public Good
Friday, 30 May 2025, 4:46 pm | Gordon Campbell
For obvious reasons, people in positions of power tend to treat the leaking of unauthorised information as a very, very bad thing. But, the history of the last 100 years has been changed – very much for the better – by the leaking of unauthorised information. More >>
On Wealth Taxes And Capital Flight
Wednesday, 28 May 2025, 1:32 pm | Gordon Campbell
In the wake of the Greens’ alternative Budget – and the criticism levelled at it – it seems pretty obvious that when it comes to tax policy, Labour’s only election campaign concession to left wing voters is going to be a capital gains tax ... More >>
On Budget 2025
Friday, 23 May 2025, 9:48 am | Gordon Campbell
Underwhelming, as promised. All week, Finance Minister Nicola Willis had actively reduced public expectations by saying that her second Budget would not be filled “with rainbows and unicorns” although – somewhere over the rainbow – it would ... More >>
On NZ’s Silence Over Gaza, And Creeping Health Privatisation
Tuesday, 20 May 2025, 11:31 am | Gordon Campbell
Since last Thursday, intensified Israeli air strikes on Gaza have killed over 500 Palestinians. And, $164.5M health spend over 5 years for a digital health service, and $164M over four years for after-hours care – are supposedly going to reduce ... More >>
On The Mock Horror Over Political Profanity
Thursday, 15 May 2025, 2:32 pm | Gordon Campbell
A female journalist (the fearsome Andrea Vance) used a bad word to refer to female politicians who had just extinguished the ability of about 150,000 women to get fair pay for the work they do. The nation reeled, and expressed its outrage More >>
On The Parental Panic Over Young Kids Online
Tuesday, 13 May 2025, 10:06 am | Gordon Campbell
Creating a policy group to investigate a R16 ban on social media provides the government with a perfectly designed soapbox. The findings don’t have to end up suggesting anything useful, let alone a practical course of action. More >>
On The New Pope, And The Israeli Attack On Peter Davis
Friday, 9 May 2025, 12:58 pm | Gordon Campbell
The election of any Pope tends to be retro-fitted in ways that make the choice seem inevitable. God’s will, no less. If the new Pope had been Italian or a staunch conservative then much the same process would be taking place. More >>
On Surviving Trump’s Trip To La La Land
Wednesday, 7 May 2025, 1:44 pm | Gordon Campbell
The film industry was probably naive to think it would be spared from Trump’s war on globalisation. If you believe Trump, every dollar being spent on foreign film crews, FX houses and film locations by “runaway” film productions is money being ... More >>
On Aussie Election Aftershocks And Life Lessons
Monday, 5 May 2025, 12:49 pm | Gordon Campbell
While Donald Trump is being widely cited as a reason/explanation for Anthony Albanese’s landslide victory on the weekend, that’s like blaming the icing for the state of a badly baked cake. In no particular order of incoherence...although allegedly being More >>
On The Aussie Election Finale
Friday, 2 May 2025, 10:42 am | Gordon Campbell
The only spectre haunting Anthony Albanese’s government going into Election Day tomorrow will be the way the polls got wrong the likely 2019 election outcome. Back then, the Scott Morrison government got re-elected in an upset result. Opposition More >>
On Our Austerity Fixation And Canada Staying Centre-left
Wednesday, 30 April 2025, 12:30 pm | Gordon Campbell
New Zealand still seems to be hellbent on cutting its way to prosperity, whether that be via spending cuts and/or tax cuts. In that respect, the current weakness of the New Zealand economy really has been a self-inflicted death by a thousand cuts. More >>
On A Neglected, Enduring Aspect Of The Francis Era
Monday, 28 April 2025, 1:41 pm | Gordon Campbell
Now that the formalities of saying goodbye to Pope Francis are over, the process of selecting his successor can begin in earnest. Framing the choice in terms of “liberal v conservative” is somewhat misleading, given that all members of the College of More >>
On The Trump Upside, And Peters Persecution Of Trans People
Thursday, 24 April 2025, 1:23 pm | Gordon Campbell
Spare us the media pearl-clutching about what Donald Trump is doing to the natural order of things. Perhaps instead, we need to treat Trump II as a pandemic/climate change scale of convulsion that offers as much of an opportunity as it does a threat. ... More >>
Papal Picks, And India As A Defence Ally
Tuesday, 22 April 2025, 3:54 pm | Gordon Campbell
Reportedly, the global uncertainty being triggered by the US tariff wars has been motivating India to speed up its bilateral trade dealings with many countries, including NZ. More >>
On The Left’s Electability Crisis, And The Abundance Ecotopia
Thursday, 17 April 2025, 1:30 pm | Gordon Campbell
Basically, centre-left opposition parties that have recently been in government are struggling to find an identity in an era where they are still detested by many of the voters they need to win over, to be re-elected. More >>
On Why The US Stands To Lose The Tariff Wars
Tuesday, 15 April 2025, 11:05 am | Gordon Campbell
Trump has plunged the world’s two largest economies into conflict in ways likely to damage both, and alter the wider patterns of international trade. Countries are being forced to deal with the fact that essential products will have to be sourced ... More >>
