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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 >>
Editorial Comment : Gordon Campbell
Wednesday, 25 May 2016, 10:08 am | Gordon Campbell
Since taking over as Editor at Scoop few months ago, I’ve avoided making mission statements, and have focussed on what can be done and/or set in train, given our resources. However, the PledgeMe campaign currently being run by the Scoop Foundation ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the rise of the far right
Tuesday, 24 May 2016, 10:48 am | Gordon Campbell
In his victory speech at the Cannes film festival this week, the British film director Ken Loach warned that the rise of far right parties in Europe was being fuelled by the economic policies of austerity, and manifested in a welfare bureaucracy that ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on bank scandals and air crashes
Monday, 23 May 2016, 10:26 am | Gordon Campbell
Libor. It stands for the London Interbank Offered rate. Back in 2012, Libor became synonymous with a scandal involving the dodgy manipulation of how interest rates were fixed - during the years before and after the Global Financial Crisis - thus ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on electricity, executions, and Bob Dylan
Wednesday, 18 May 2016, 10:15 am | Gordon Campbell
This week, New Zealand’s crisis of poverty and homelessness has been making headlines around the world . At exactly the same time, Electricity Authority has unveiled the final version of its pricing plan for electricity transmission. More >>
Gordon Campbell on NZ’s support for the Kazakh dictatorship
Monday, 16 May 2016, 10:53 am | Gordon Campbell
Thanks to Sacha Baron Cohen , Kazakhstan will always seem like a bit of a jokey, ramshackle kind of place. To that end, the Stuff story last week about the New Zealand courts’ recent compliance with the wishes of the Kazakh dictatorship was illustrated ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the proposed media merger
Friday, 13 May 2016, 12:40 pm | Gordon Campbell
Monopolies are bad for people, and bad for capitalism, too. Look at what happened in the late 1980s when a Labour government handed a state monopoly over to Telecom – which proceeded to screw its customers over prices, spent the bare minimum on ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the future of conservatism
Thursday, 12 May 2016, 10:08 am | Gordon Campbell
For years, observers have noted the contrast between Prime Minister John Key’s ordinary Kiwi bloke persona, and the patrician prat more commonly seen in Parliament. This week though, the prat has been in plain sight. Nominally, Key got expelled from ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on how class colours Panama Papers reactions
Wednesday, 11 May 2016, 11:36 am | Gordon Campbell
Not many heroes so far in the Panama Papers saga, but any number of villains. Those villains happen to include: criminals laundering their ill gotten gains, terrorists funding their nefarious activities, and shadowy figures guilty of varying levels ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the govt’s token plans for cyber-security
Friday, 6 May 2016, 10:09 am | Gordon Campbell
Basically, the world is divided into two types of people : those who think the Panama Papers illustrate the bad shit that some people do, and those who think the Panama Papers illustrate what needs to be done to make sure no-one else discovers the shit ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Pharmac’s grudging concession to reality
Thursday, 5 May 2016, 9:36 am | Gordon Campbell
Is this any way to run a health system… whereby terminally ill patients are forced into public demonstrations before the government (and its funding agency Pharmac) will grudgingly provide the money for life-saving treatments freely available and ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Pharmac’s indefensible stance
Tuesday, 3 May 2016, 10:15 am | Gordon Campbell
One of the interesting line items in this month’s Budget will be the one that sets out the increase – if any – in Pharmac’s base funding, to enable it to meet the huge cost of the new class of so called ‘biologics’ drugs for treating ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on not crying foul, Argentina
Friday, 29 April 2016, 11:07 am | Gordon Campbell
So a couple of guys found to be criminally liable of environmental pollution in Argentina lodge an application with the Overseas Investment Office… in order to buy some prime New Zealand rural land. Seems that their factory back home had carelessly ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Trump and the Madman Theory
Thursday, 28 April 2016, 10:04 am | Gordon Campbell
Years ago, Richard Nixon explained to his chief adviser Bob Haldeman what has since become known as the “Madman Theory” of foreign policy . More >>
