Gordon Campbell on the continuing saga of the Chelsea Manning visit, and BTS
The National Party has played fast and loose with the facts during its campaign to deny an entry visa to the American LGBTQ activist Chelsea Manning.
August 2018
Not Like A Hurricane
Hawai’i scares itself sick, over a no-show storm
Gordon Campbell on National’s crusade against Chelsea Manning
So National wants the government to deny Chelsea Manning a visa for her two speaking engagements in mid September…
Gordon Campbell on counting the cost from the Bridges leak
Surely, the public would not be left in the dark forever about the identity of the person who had tried to make political capital out of this privileged information? Unfortunately, yes.
Is She Our Best Hope to Defeat Donald Trump?
Currently, Amy Klobuchar is enjoying 60% approval ratings in a state that Hillary Clinton won in 2016 by only 1.5 percentage points.
Gordon Campbell on MP pay and the REAL p.c. danger zone
We’ve always had a dominant form of identity politics in this country, and it is one that’s based almost entirely on the ingrained beliefs of white men of means.
Gordon Campbell on another reason to loathe and detest HR departments
Police emergency call centre staff afraid their sick leave statistics will be used against them, and their jobs put in jeopardy, is not an isolated case.
Gordon Campbell on the stereotypes about Jacinda Ardern
On Monday, Act MP David Seymour’s depiction of PM Jacinda Ardern as a clueless lightweight was yet another example of the double bind faced by […]
Gordon Campbell on the EU’s battle with Washington, over Iran
EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini used the occasion in Wellington to challenge the White House intensely, over Iran.
Gordon Campbell on why worrying about business confidence is a wasted effort
For reasons that amount to little more than a prolonged political sulk over last year’s election result, the corporate world is talking itself into a tantrum.
Gordon Campbell on the nurses dispute, and our timidity over Iran
No more money was supposedly available to resolve the nurses dispute. Yet in the wake of industrial action taken by the nurses, another $38 million has been found…