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.
Team of charlatans, bigots and stunningly ignorant crackpots that Trump is appointing to head key federal agencies is alarming.
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 […]
For many on the centre-left, populism is a dirty word, and shorthand for the politics of bigotry.
With hindsight, it is fascinating that so many mainstream news outlets chose not to publish the dossier for so long.
The really compelling modern evidence that the magic potion doesn’t work is the state of Kansas under governor Sam Brownback
Primarily, Meryl Streep’s critical speech last night at the Golden Globes was a defence of journalism and of journalists.
The UN resolution has been one of the most high profile achievements of our diplomacy on the world stage for many years.
I’m not even going to try and rationalise this surrender to a ‘best of’ listicle.
Last weekend’s Cabinet shuffle of the same old names around a few different chairs didn’t tell us much.
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.
Elsewhere in the world, media cutbacks and consolidation haven’t exactly ushered in a bright new era of more diverse, more substantial news coverage.
Gordon Campbell on the new team’s potential Cabinet picks Things will be just the same, but really, really different! Its so exciting! Bill English is […]
Key’s endorsement of English has turned this “contest” into a race for second place.
The resignation of John Key is one thing. The way that Key and his deputy Bill English have screwed the scrum on the leadership succession […]
Without much coverage at all in the West, India has just been engaged for the past few weeks in one of the world’s biggest socio-economic […]
Last week’s conflict between Social Development Minister Anne Tolley and District Court judge Carolyn Henwood illustrated quite a few of the flaws in the system.
We all supposedly agree that the media is going to hell in a tabloid handbasket, but the trends to the contrary can be a bit harder to spot.
The configuration of rail, road and shipping likely to emerge in the longer term, post earthquake, still remains opaque.
As APEC leaders get together this weekend in Peru, they could be forgiven for looking back nostalgically at Barack Obama’s time in office and wondering […]
If Bob Dylan owned the 1960s, Leonard Cohen was an inescapable presence during the early 1970s.
One significant factor Morgan does have going for him is that doesn’t appear to regard success or failure in ordinary political terms.
There’s no getting away from the fact that Trump’s victory makes the world a more dangerous place.
Well, as Auditor-General Lynn Provost has just found in her long-awaited report into the Saudi sheep deal: plenty.
Here’s this morning’s latest take on the TPP’s chances of survival. They’re not good.
The shockwaves from Uber’s defeat last week in a British court have reportedly already begun to wash up here in New Zealand with some local drivers thinking of taking a similar class action.
Apparently, the Police have deliberately abused the powers of detention they possess under the Land Transport Act…
In the past week , many of the postscripts to Hekia Parata’s career as Education Minister have sounded like a schoolteacher desperately trying to find some reason why a D student can be marked up to C minus.
How do you tell someone you’ve thought about dropping your newborn on the floor?
Why some women suffer from PND, how it should be treated, and even what to call it are far from settled issues.
Wellington Airport’s runway extension faces another legal challenge, on safety grounds
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