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Gordon Campbell on the Gareth Morgan crusade
Friday, 11 November 2016, 10:48 am | Gordon Campbell
T he ghastly likes of Marine Le Pen in France and Geert Wilders in the Netherlands have already hailed the Trump triumph as an inspiration for Europe, and for the entire globe. Racist xenophobes of the world unite, because its now our time! More >>
Gordon Campbell on the US election outcome
Thursday, 10 November 2016, 10:53 am | Gordon Campbell
W ell um.. on the bright side, there (probably) won’t be a TPP. In fact, you could argue that the cheerleaders of free trade have now succeeded in delivering the planet into the hands of someone who believes in the unlimited use of American military ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the US election home stretch
Tuesday, 8 November 2016, 11:08 am | Gordon Campbell
O nce again at the business end of a US election, the result will hinge on the same old bits of geography as always: the Five Crucial Counties in Ohio, the Two Crucial Counties in Pennsylvania and the I-4 Interstate Corridor in Florida that runs from ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on news from the US election eve
Friday, 4 November 2016, 10:41 am | Gordon Campbell
Here’s a somewhat scary headline from October 30 on Nate Silver’s 538 site, which summed up the statistical factors in play at that point : “The Cubs Have A Smaller Chance Of Winning Than Trump Does” More >>
Gordon Campbell on the latest McCully fiasco
Thursday, 3 November 2016, 10:47 am | Gordon Campbell
Well, as Auditor-General Lynn Provost has just found in her long-awaited report into the Saudi sheep deal: plenty. More >>
Gordon Campbell on the last rites for the TPP
Wednesday, 2 November 2016, 11:44 am | Gordon Campbell
Sorry. I know that the TPP is the reggae of political issues…in that it can be endlessly boring, samey sounding and obsessed with the same things ( Jah, ganja and investor state disputes) but believe me, there are some fascinating bassline variations ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Britain’s court ruling against Uber
Monday, 31 October 2016, 10:01 am | Gordon Campbell
The shockwaves from Uber’s defeat last week in a British court have reportedly already begun to wash up here in New Zealand with some local drivers thinking of taking a similar class action. More >>
Gordon Campbell On The Police (And MSD) Abuses Of Power
Thursday, 27 October 2016, 10:22 am | Gordon Campbell
I t has been a rough week for anyone who believes in civil liberties. Apparently, the Police have deliberately abused the powers of detention they possess under the Land Transport Act (ie to promote road safety) in order to set up a bogus breath ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on holidays, Hekia Parata and Badlands
Tuesday, 25 October 2016, 11:50 am | Gordon Campbell
A t this time of year, a lot of New Zealanders tend to bemoan the increasing popularity of Hallowe’en. They regard it as an alien, commercialized American import with no real connection to this country – even though, thank goodness, Hallowe’en ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: plastic bag activism, and street harassment
Tuesday, 18 October 2016, 11:37 am | Gordon Campbell
A musing to see the Act Party experiencing another outbreak of young fogey-ism. What has aroused the ire of Act Leader David Seymour this time is the introduction of a Greens private members bill to the ballot process, calling for a 15 cents levy ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Surplus, And Bob Dylan
Friday, 14 October 2016, 11:14 am | Gordon Campbell
T o quote the distinguished Nobel laureate, ‘Something is happening here, and you don’t know what it is, do you Mr Jones?” True, Bob Dylan didn’t have Finance Minister Bill English or Labour leader Andrew Little exactly in mind when he wrote ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Judith Collins, crime and poverty
Thursday, 13 October 2016, 11:12 am | Gordon Campbell
U sually, populism is associated with Winston Peters and his regular tweakings of community prejudice about race and immigration. Just as predictably, Police Minister Judith Collins engages in the same process of liberal baiting. It is just the way ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on how the political centre is a mirage
Tuesday, 11 October 2016, 11:14 am | Gordon Campbell
A nd now as the dust from the local government outcomes begins to settle, the policy battles between central and local government kick into gear. Could a regional fuel tax for Auckland be back on the table? Might Phil Goff forge ahead regardless with ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on dairy farming and the battle for Mosul
Wednesday, 5 October 2016, 10:23 am | Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell on dairy farming, the battle for Mosul and drugs in sport First published on Werewolf More >>
Gordon Campbell on privatizing education, and the Amen Break
Thursday, 29 September 2016, 11:05 am | Gordon Campbell
H ere’s a link to a brilliant piece by the Aussie economist John Quiggin - occasionally of this parish – about the failures of the market when it comes to the delivery of social programmes . More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Key style of crisis management
Tuesday, 27 September 2016, 12:43 pm | Gordon Campbell
O bviously, anyone paying much attention in recent weeks has been serially appalled/amazed/cynically amused by The Great Fish Dumping Fiasco, and the evidence of top Ministry of Primary Industries (MPI) officials being caught in email flagrante saying such stuff as… ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Judith Collins’ self correction
Monday, 26 September 2016, 10:40 am | Gordon Campbell
Thousands of prisoners currently in prison may be entitled to an earlier release than expected – and compensation – because Corrections has incorrectly calculated their term of imprisonment. Thousands more who have been released (and who served ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on our posturing at the UN
Wednesday, 21 September 2016, 10:31 am | Gordon Campbell
H ey, how hard is to be John Key? Not very. Yesterday in New York for instance, Key basically took an old May 2 Washington Post article written by Barack Obama, recycled it back to the Americans, and still scored headlines here at home such as ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the damage of deregulation
Tuesday, 20 September 2016, 12:10 pm | Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell on the damage de-regulation is doing to fisheries and education, plus Kate Tempest First published on Werewolf More >>
Gordon Campbell on welfare blackmail, and drugs in sport
Thursday, 15 September 2016, 1:49 pm | Gordon Campbell
S o, in order to chase up the fathers (and in a few rare cases, the mothers) who may be dodging their responsibility for paying child support… WINZ is evidently willing to blackmail the parent who is doing the actual caring, and thereby push ... More >>
