Gordon Campbell on the ongoing carnage in Gaza
The past month has devoted a lot of space to the best music and films of 2018, and far less to the past year’s human rights violations.
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Gordon Campbell on why Thompson+ Clark are just the tip of the iceberg
It seems naive to bemoan how state agencies spy on ordinary citizens without addressing how those agencies came to be the hired hands of the policies of the government of the day.
Gordon Campbell on the best music tracks of 2018
Oliver Godji, who records as Octavian, is a French/British/Angolan rapper based in London. As someone born in Lille, France, he didn’t qualify for welfare in Britain…
Gordon Campbell on five lingering questions about the Huawei ban
The ban on Spark using Huawei technology within their planned 5G phone and Internet network continues to raise more questions than answers.
Gordon Campbell on how Malaysia has exposed our dodgy policies towards China
Mahathir Mohamad has exposed how New Zealand is trying to make a virtue out of sitting on the fence over the South China Sea dispute
Gordon Campbell on the latest roll of the Brexit dice, and prisoner voting
Brexit has left the British public looking like a nation of Wellington bus commuters.
Gordon Campbell on the Jami-Lee Ross Saga
Secretly taping your political leader and threatening to release the contents in public is not a good way to win clemency, or gain support from your team
Gordon Campbell on why the highly educated tend to vote centre-left
In March of this year, the French economist Thomas Piketty published a paper tracing the political journey that the university-educated have taken across the political spectrum…
Gordon Campbell on the ongoing battles over free speech
Free speech controversies rarely have to do with the opinions of those lacking a public platform.
Gordon Campbell on the teachers’ struggle for better pay and conditions
These days, strike action is essentially a game of three dimensional chess, and the industrial stoppages coming our way in education are a case in point.
Gordon Campbell on what Trump may mean for us
The chaotic presidency of Donald Trump has been a weird form of spectator sport for the past three weeks. Horrible, but you can’t stop watching […]
Anne Russell on the misogyny at The Daily Blog
After various leftist media outlets spoke out against the inclusion of rape apologist Willie Jackson in the Labour Party’s election planning , The Daily Blog welcomed its new influx of male readers
Gordon Campbell on the limits of conspiracy thinking
On the left, there’s long been a tendency to attribute phenomenal powers of competence and technological expertise to its opponents on the political right.
Gordon Campbell on the looming conflict over the Iranian nuclear deal
Iran and the Trump administration are on a collision course over Iran’s testing of ballistic missiles.
John Quiggin on Australia’s flirtations with Trumpism
Australia has had no less than four Trumpist political parties and may yet get a fifth. The good news is they have been surprisingly ineffectual.
Gordon Campbell on the Bill English phone call, La La Land, and jazz
The reality is that the President enjoys sweeping powers under the Immigration and Nationality Act
Gordon Campbell on Thiel, and the sympatico between Peters and English
We got a less manicured and truer picture of Bill English at yesterday’s press conference
Gordon Campbell on NZ as an escape hatch for US survivalists
Nice to see that former Internal Affairs Minister Nathan Guy has regained his memory about signing off on Peter Thiel’s bid for citizenship.
Gordon Campbell on NZ’s silence over Trump’s anti-Muslim agenda
Shame that the New Zealand government has been missing in action over the weekend, during the time when the Trump presidency has been carrying out […]
Gordon Campbell on journalism’s future in the era of “alternative facts.”
Already, the White House has made it clear that the media are the new enemy that the new President’s supporters will be encouraged to unite against.
Gordon Campbell on the team behind the throne
Team of charlatans, bigots and stunningly ignorant crackpots that Trump is appointing to head key federal agencies is alarming.
Gordon Campbell on Bill English, abroad
If David Cameron was the closest thing John Key had to a political mentor, their successors also share a whole lot in common. Theresa May […]
Gordon Campbell on populism and Labour 2017
For many on the centre-left, populism is a dirty word, and shorthand for the politics of bigotry.
Gordon Campbell on the ethics of publishing the Trump dossier
With hindsight, it is fascinating that so many mainstream news outlets chose not to publish the dossier for so long.
Gordon Campbell on why tax cuts in 2017 would be a (proven) bad idea
The really compelling modern evidence that the magic potion doesn’t work is the state of Kansas under governor Sam Brownback
Gordon Campbell on Meryl Streep’s speech
Primarily, Meryl Streep’s critical speech last night at the Golden Globes was a defence of journalism and of journalists.
Gordon Campbell on the UN resolution on Palestine
The UN resolution has been one of the most high profile achievements of our diplomacy on the world stage for many years.
The best albums of 2016
I’m not even going to try and rationalise this surrender to a ‘best of’ listicle.
Gordon Campbell on the politics of boredom
Last weekend’s Cabinet shuffle of the same old names around a few different chairs didn’t tell us much.
Gordon Campbell on the Murray McCully exit
Leaving has been his finest gift to caucus, and to the nation. Would that it had been done sooner, but welcome that it be done at all.