Gordon Campbell on the Northland by-election
Supposedly, Winston Peters’ victory in Northland has exposed the simmering dissatisfaction with the government that exists out in the provinces. Yet it remains to be […]
Supposedly, Winston Peters’ victory in Northland has exposed the simmering dissatisfaction with the government that exists out in the provinces. Yet it remains to be […]
Supposedly, New Zealand’s destiny lies in Asia, and that was one of Foreign Minister Murray McCully’s rationales for his bungled reforms at MFAT. OK. So, […]
Is he the solution or a big, big part of the problem?
Why is our past a foreign country?
Are we being intimidated into silence about everything that matters?
Simon Denny takes mass surveillance to the Venice Biennale…
How does David Lynch’s Wild at Heart look, 25 years later?
Running a few ideas up the flagpole to see if anyone repeatedly chops them down
The tedium of talking about TV shows
The evolution of the politics of food
Looking back at 50 years of Nashville’s black sheep boy
The December 2014 edition of Werewolf
So New Zealand has using the GCSB to spy on its friends and allies in the Pacific – and has not only been passing on […]
For anyone with memories of the apartheid era, there will be mixed feelings about the news this week that South African mercenaries are playing a […]
Having media crews in a disaster zone can help to (a) pinpoint areas of need and (b) provide some re-assurance to the victims that the […]
For decades, the ringing statements on human rights by various European and US governments have been undermined by the diplomatic support they’ve given to the […]
The sole upside for the government in its release of a three month old threat to contaminate infant formula is that the story knocked Winston […]
Incredibly, Winston Peters is back at centre stage of New Zealand politics, and in the role he likes best – as the virtuous underdog, fighting […]
As many have noted, the Hager/Snowden revelations of the spying by our security agencies on our Pacific neighbours and allies is a virtual re-run of […]
The quashing of the convictions of Teina Pora for the rape and murder of Susan Burdett in 1992 has shone a spotlight once again on […]
There had been a fortnight of fevered buildup. Yet here we are in the aftermath of the February 28 showdown between the new Syriza government […]
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