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Gordon Campbell on Labour’s housing policy, and TPP rewrites
Monday, 11 July 2016, 11:22 am | Gordon Campbell
D riving round Dunedin South yesterday was an interesting place to be hearing the news of Labour’s new housing policy launch. In Corstorphine and Kew came street after street of state housing built in a previous era by an effective government ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Tony Blair and the Chilcot Report
Thursday, 7 July 2016, 10:16 am | Gordon Campbell
S even years in the making. Twelve volumes, and 2.6 million words. The Chilcot report into Britain’s involvement in the Iraq war in 2003 is indeed a blockbuster, and it dole out some harsh criticisms of former British PM Tony Blair - who led Britain ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on John Key’s weird pilgrimage to Europe
Tuesday, 5 July 2016, 10:21 am | Gordon Campbell
A s history records, the last foreign dignitary seen by Chairman Mao before he died was a New Zealand Prime Minister, Robert Muldoon. With British PM David Cameron now on his political death bed, there’s a certain grim resonance in the fact that New ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on a bad week for Malcolm Turnbull
Monday, 4 July 2016, 10:35 am | Gordon Campbell
Traditionally, the Liberals have been better at organising their postal votes (before election day) than the Australian Labour Party. So, the Australian bookies who gambled in favour of a Liberals victory may still prevail, despite losing a couple of nights ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Britain’s pleas for mercy
Wednesday, 29 June 2016, 11:27 am | Gordon Campbell
S o… Boris Johnson is promising that he won’t be holding a snap general election, if he’s chosen as the next UK Conservative Party leader. More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Inquiry into our tax haven rules
Tuesday, 28 June 2016, 10:21 am | Gordon Campbell
L ike the political equivalent of lithium, Prime Minister John Key is routinely administered to dull any politically dangerous mood swings amidst the general public. Tax havens? Here? Goodness no, our handling of foreign trusts, is, quote, world class, ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the aftermath of Brexit
Monday, 27 June 2016, 11:00 am | Gordon Campbell
Now that it has woken up from its Brexit victory hangover, is Britain acting as if it has just won the World Cup? Hardly. More >>
Gordon Campbell on the delusions driving the “Leave” option
Wednesday, 22 June 2016, 1:09 pm | Gordon Campbell
O n the brink of the Brexit vote, the irrationality of the “Leave” option is now apparent. Voting for “Leave” requires (a) a fantastically unbalanced view of the impact of immigration on modern Britain (b) a demonizing of the EU “regulations” ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the “T” word, and the Spanish election
Tuesday, 21 June 2016, 10:23 am | Gordon Campbell
Once again, the RNZ news packages from the US and UK this morning underlined the striking difference in the treatment of the Pulse night club killings in Florida and the murder of the British Labour MP, Jo Cox. From day one, the Miami shooter ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the RCEP trade deal and other entanglements
Monday, 20 June 2016, 11:35 am | Gordon Campbell
So China and the US both have competing trade deals on offer – the TPP for the US and the RCEP for the Chinese - each of which pointedly exclude the other superpower. That fact alone should signal that these deals are not primarily about mere trade ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Teina Pora payout
Thursday, 16 June 2016, 10:36 am | Gordon Campbell
O ops, sorry and $2.5 million in cash as a settlement for wrongful conviction. Obviously, Teina Pora hasn’t received a generous settlement. Back in the late 1990s, the Cabinet guidelines set $100,000 a year as the appropriate level of compensation when the ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on political smears and begging
Wednesday, 15 June 2016, 11:00 am | Gordon Campbell
I f you’re a ministerial spin merchant can you ‘accidentally’ pass on to a journalist the fact that a prominent critic of your Minister and her government is under Police investigation ? More >>
Gordon Campbell on our refugee response, and a TPP rewrite
Tuesday, 14 June 2016, 11:22 am | Gordon Campbell
T he miserly nature of New Zealand’s response to the global refugee crisis continues apace. Yesterday’s announcement of an increase in our intake of UNHCR refugees from 750 to 1,000 refugees will only kick in from 2018, after the recent special ... More >>
From The Editor: Journalism Project Update
Monday, 13 June 2016, 9:29 am | Gordon Campbell
Before Scoop's crowd funding effort wraps up tonight, I thought I should provide an update on the mental health journalism project that Scoop – and its readers – are funding. More >>
Gordon Campbell: Happy 17th birthday, Scoop!
Friday, 10 June 2016, 12:29 pm | Gordon Campbell
Happy 17th birthday, Scoop! As I recall seventeen is a time in life when you feel really really old and like you’ve seen it all. And yet great experiences you never imagined were waiting just around the corner. That’s the same for Scoop, too. The ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the new Defence White Paper
Friday, 10 June 2016, 10:21 am | Gordon Campbell
Once again, government spending on Defence is increasing by leaps and bounds, without any rational cost/benefit analysis. Yep, even Prime Minister John Key admitted this week that “the country can be confident it does not face a military threat in the ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Muhammad Ali
Tuesday, 7 June 2016, 11:53 am | Gordon Campbell
As with Bob Dylan, Muhammad Ali changed the times in which he lived so thoroughly that anyone coming along afterwards will probably struggle to understand the scale of his achievement. At the time, rock’n’ roll had seemed bad enough ; but that ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on tobacco politics, and the TPP death watch
Tuesday, 31 May 2016, 10:58 am | Gordon Campbell
Has Act leader David Seymour got the easiest job in the world, or what? Roll out of bed, turn on the radio and hmm…there do seem to be a lot of problems out there in the world. Must think of something. And so it came to pass that this morning , ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on yesterday’s Budget
Friday, 27 May 2016, 10:02 am | Gordon Campbell
Budgies, so their Wikipedia page says, are popular pets around the world due to their small size, low cost, and ability to mimic human speech. Which is a reasonably good description of Finance Minister Bill English eighth Budget. Especially when ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: the latest allegations against Helen Clark
Thursday, 26 May 2016, 9:35 am | Gordon Campbell
According to former PM and current Helen Clark, the allegations leveled at her this week in a Foreign Policy magazine article by the prize-winning UN journalist Colum Lynch have been ‘totally fabricated’ . More >>
