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On New Zealand’s Peter Thiel Problem
Tuesday, 22 July 2025, 3:43 pm | Gordon Campbell
Reportedly, the moral revulsion being felt around the world at Israel’s actions in Gaza has induced 24 countries to sign a joint letter calling on Israel to cease its onslaught, and to“end now” the Gaza conflict. More >>
On The Costs Of Regulating Cost, And Burkina Faso As A Role Model
Thursday, 17 July 2025, 12:56 pm | Gordon Campbell
Funny how “blow-out” gets so readily applied to cost escalation in the provision of public services (hospital rebuilds, the Cook Strait ferries) but when politicians get the figures wrong for their pet projects, its just a matter of opinion. More >>
On Ducking The Costs Of Climate Change
Tuesday, 15 July 2025, 2:12 pm | Gordon Campbell
Looking for consistency in all things is said to be the hallmark of a small mind. Duly noted, but the Luxon government’s stance on climate change does seem strikingly inconsistent. More >>
On Why The Regulatory Standards Bill Is A Hot Mess
Thursday, 10 July 2025, 11:44 am | Gordon Campbell
When the politician pushing a controversial piece of legislation starts accusing his critics of “derangement syndrome” – as David Seymour has done this week – then any chance of a rational debate on the Regulatory Standards Bill has gone More >>
On Using The Tax System To Boost Funding For The Arts
Tuesday, 8 July 2025, 11:54 am | Gordon Campbell
Despite the myriad concerns being expressed about the Regulatory Standards Bill – including misgivings by his own Regulations Ministry and scorn from constitutional law expert Sir Geoffrey Palmer – David Seymour has professed to find no merit in ... More >>
On National’s Crackdown On Shoplifters
Thursday, 3 July 2025, 11:54 am | Gordon Campbell
Politicians do like being tough on crime. Flexing law and order muscle is a feature of the patriarchal Daddy State, and is beloved by the very same conservatives who deplore the workings of the Nanny State. But tough on which crimes – and even more ... More >>
On What Our Labour Party Could Learn From Zohran Mamdani
Tuesday, 1 July 2025, 11:42 am | Gordon Campbell
Heaven forbid that an abrasive punk duo that calls itself Bob Vylan should lead a hostile chant at the Glastonbury music festival against a military organisation that has killed tens of thousands of unarmed civilians, and enforcing a famine that is ... More >>
On Exonerating Israel, And Demonising Iran
Thursday, 26 June 2025, 1:39 pm | Gordon Campbell
Now that the US and Israel have stopped bombing Iran, Israel can re-focus on its core business of starving children in Gaza, and killing their parents, medical staff, journalists and anyone else who strays across their line of fire. More >>
On Trump’s Anti-Bomb Bombing Campaign
Monday, 23 June 2025, 11:13 am | Gordon Campbell
If the US really wanted to stop nuclear weapons proliferation in the Middle East, it would have long ago supported the moves to declare the region a nuclear weapon free zone, and allow the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to monitor it. More >>
On Sacrificing Worker Rights On The Altar Of Commerce
Wednesday, 18 June 2025, 11:57 am | Gordon Campbell
In the interests of efficiency, maybe Brooke van Velden should just outsource her Workplace Relations and Safety Ministry to Business NZ and be done with it. Because (obviously) corporate wishes are her command. More >>
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 >>
