Gordon Campbell on Labour’s backdown over the Hobbit law (and Jami-Lee Ross)
Clearly, Jami-Lee Ross is not waging a normal form of political warfare, with agreed rules of combat and rational cost/benefit calculations.
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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 government’s feeble response to loan sharks
When it comes down to protecting the most vulnerable, Parliament can sometimes move at glacial pace, and do the bare minimum.
Gordon Campbell on the political cost of rising petrol prices
Over the course of National’s entire term of office… it had the great good fortune that high global oil prices rarely coincided with a low Kiwi dollar…
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 bringing business into the 21st century
From now on it seems, firms will only need to re-invest a paltry $50,000 in research and development – half the previous amount – to qualify for a sizeable tax break.
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 why we shouldn’t buy into NZF’s pledge list of values
Signing a compulsory pledge to respect an arbitrary list of “values” is nothing other than neo-colonial bullying.
Gordon Campbell on Elizabeth Warren’s plan to save capitalism from itself
Over the past six weeks, Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren has emerged from the pack as Trump’s likely Democratic rival in 2020.
Gordon Campbell on the party of no ideas
The striking thing about the issues that have political coverage over the past few months is the almost total lack of policy content to any of them.
Gordon Campbell on National’s ‘meth crooks’ failure of leadership
Given that National Party leader Simon Bridges has made consistency and strong leadership the cornerstones of his attacks upon the coalition government, his own massive […]
Gordon Campbell on the Tax Working Group’s road map
Trying to analyse the interim report on the Tax Working Group (TWG) is like trying to review an entire All Blacks game, but at the half- time mark.
Gordon Campbell on how the Kavanaugh case relates to women’s suffrage
On suffrage day – reportedly – we celebrate women winning a political voice, and ensuring that their voices are heard, respected, and acted upon, despite attempts to ignore and silence then.
Gordon Campbell on our military roles in Iraq and Afghanistan
Yesterday, PM Jacinda Ardern committed this country to an extension of our military deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan, pending a review early next year…
Gordon Campbell on the Ardern pep talk
The intolerance being shown for coalition disagreements betrays our depressing appetite for a tidily totalitarian style of government where everyone is expected to march in lockstep.
Gordon Campbell on the rising cost of petrol
Most of the scenarios envisage global oil prices going up – maybe even way up – starting about now.
Gordon Campbell on yesterday’s electricity price review
The review shows the cost of electricity has been shifted off business and onto consumers
Gordon Campbell on the fuss and fighting over the PM’s Pacific Forum trip
Dutifully, the Pacific Islands Forum meeting is described each year as the region’s most important gathering of leaders…
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.
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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.
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…
Gordon Campbell on the Peters regency, and Imran Khan
If Jacinda Ardern is the mother of the nation, Winston Peters is rapidly turning into its kindly old uncle…