On New Zealand’s links with Muammar Ghaddafi
As Libya’s dictator Muammar Ghadaffi continues to murder and terrorise his people in an attempt to cling onto power, surely Education Minister Anne Tolley will […]
February 2011
On the Welfare Working Group final report
Bureaucrats and academics tend to enjoy playing God with the lives of the vulnerable – but evidently, even the Welfare Working Group members couldn’t agree […]
Gordon Campbell on the prelude to the welfare reform package
At his post-Cabinet press conference yesterday PM John Key identified the root cause of the unrest in Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain and Libya in terms that […]
On taxing purchases from Amazon, and Egypt
The current problems facing the retail book trade – and music stores – in New Zealand will increase the pressure on Revenue Minister Peter Dunne […]
Ten Myths About Welfare
The politics behind the government’s welfare reform process
Letter from America : Four Days in Washington DC
A Long Walk Down Memory Lane…
Treasury Enters, Stage Right
Treasury, not trade unions, poses the biggest threat to film industry jobs
Milestone Movies : The Searchers (1956)
John Wayne, antihero
From The Hood : “John Key PM” Wins 2011 Walters Prize For Modern Art?
Is he a natural clown or the nation’s greatest conceptual artist?
Celebrating “Meh”
Indifference is an option
Classics : The Cricket In Times Square (1960)
Authors who write for children are people, too.
The Complicatist : Lost Soul Classics, Old and New
How did Shreveport, Louisiana get to be the unknown soul capital of America?
Cartoon Alley : Reviews and commentary #20… Tim Bollinger
Some Recent New Zealand Comic Publication
Cartoon Alley : Reviews and commentary #19… Gordon Campbell
My Favourite Comic (this month) : “The Dream of a Lifetime” by Don Rosa
* * * * * WEREWOLF ISSUE 19, December 2010 * * * * *
The December 2010 Edition of Werewolf
On the martyrdom of Hone Harawira
The notion of a Maori Party suffering patiently for five years with an untrustworthy and disruptive Hone Harawira requires a rewrite of history that isn’t […]
On the ongoing saga of prisoners' right to vote
Last year, and despite the objections of its own Attorney-General, the Key government removed the right of all prisoners to vote. That puts us outside […]
Gordon Campbell on the Winston Peters veto (plus Egypt, Haiti)
So if voters return Winston Peters in government, the National Party will not work with him in any governing coalition. Fair enough. It is up […]
On Mubarak’s divide and rule tactics, and David Farrar
Click for big version If regime change does eventually occur in Egypt, a truly representative government in Cairo would be less pro-American, and less likely […]
On John Key’s feeble response to events in Egypt
All very well that John Key is New Zealand’s third Jewish prime minister, as the Jerusalem Post described him at the time of his election. […]