Gordon Campbell on Friday’s job summit, and whether anyone has an end game for the recession
How bad is bad likely to be ? At this point, Friday’s job summit will begin under the shadow of a great unknown. No-one it […]
February 2009
Gordon Campbell On Who May Succeed Jeanette Fitzsimons
Click to enlarge The fortunes of politicians can change overnight – cock of the walk one day, coq au vin the next. Not that Green […]
Gordon Campbell on National’s shambolically popular style of government, plus the Israeli election
Click to enlarge Much as he’d dislike the comparison, Bill English is being almost Bolgeresque in the non- ideological approach he’s taken to running the […]
Gordon Campbell on how spying on politicians should be managed in future
Click to enlarge For the meantime, Prime Minister John Key has kicked for touch on whether security services directly responsible to him should be allowed […]
John Key’s infrastructure announcement
Click to enlarge So earlier today, we saw Prime Minister John Key unveil phase two of his government’s ‘rolling maul’ of solutions to the financial […]
Campbell: Sir Roger Douglas, And His Orewa Speech
Quaint. 25 years after Roger Douglas first won the power to affect this country, he has returned to Orewa, the elephant’s graveyard of politicians ( […]
Gordon Campbell: Obama, Locke & Israeli Elections
One of the year’s major foreign policy decisions will soon be landing on the table of John Key’s government. The US will be coming round […]
Gordon Campbell: Obama, Locke & Israeli Elections
One of the year’s major foreign policy decisions will soon be landing on the table of John Key’s government. The US will be coming round […]
Gordon Campbell on the challenges that the RMA changes pose for the Maori Party
Click to enlarge The Maori Party and the National Party are strange bedfellows, and this week has offered a few more examples of the tricky […]
How the government’s media imagery diverges from reality
The media loves a little Westie battler, but is not quite so keen on people who use privilege to get what they want. Last week […]