Gordon Campbell on the risk of being short changed by Pfizer
Who knew that the delivery of the Covid vaccines was going to be such a headache? All the predictions had been around the likely distribution […]
Who knew that the delivery of the Covid vaccines was going to be such a headache? All the predictions had been around the likely distribution […]
T he South African variant at the centre of the Northland case of community transmission calls for a reset of several aspects of our Covid […]
As the Covid vaccines roll out around the world, the Tokyo Olympics are looming as a major test of when (and whether) something akin to […]
Both here and abroad, the Covid-19 economic recession has been disastrous for women workers and their families. In November, young women below 30 in particular […]
To the very end, a sizeable Congressional segment of the Republican Party has been willing to defend Donald Trump no matter what he says or […]
Well, apart from the who, why and how of it, the recent hack of the Reserve Bank’s computer security defences seems crystal clear. It happened. […]
Hong Kong and Washington DC. On the same morning, the tyrants in power in Beijing and their counterpart in the White House have shown how […]
Hi and happy New Year. Currently, the Republicans hold a 52-48 majority in the Senate, the upper chamber of US Congress. If the Democrats can […]
So, evidently, you can get away with murder. It looks as though a further escalation in the ongoing war between Iran and the US has […]
In popular culture, Australia is often portrayed as Western civilisation’s last unspoiled frontier, or as its final refuge from planetary disaster. In Nevil Shute’s best-selling […]
In a year where so many of the highlights came from female musicians, there was one standout album…
While it isn’t surprising that Boris Johnson won the election, he might also have lost the United Kingdom
Presumably, if there is to be a ministerial inquiry (at the very least) into the Whakaari/White Island disaster, it will need to be a joint ministerial inquiry.
If New Zealand has a pressing need to stimulate its flagging economy, it seems very weird to meet this need with a $12 billion package of infrastructure spending…
New Zealand itself is at risk of being seen as a tourism destination where commercial factors determine the boundary line of acceptable risk
In the fortnight since the Internet got switched back on in Iran, the ferocity of the crackdown on the recent demonstrations has become evident.
It was always going to be hard to have a rational debate on cannabis reform. Far easier for politicians to win votes by stoking alarm.
The same argument that Robertson has made for these projects apply equally to why the government should borrow the money to build them itself
Be it the scandals he has uncovered (eg the Winebox) or the scandals he has featured in… Winston Peters is, as they say, good copy.
Even before the local body election results came in from Hong Kong, China had been having a p.r. nightmare this week.
One one front, the government has now done the right thing, and has partially restored the right of prisoners to vote
Reportedly, there have been 17 civilian deaths and injuries (seven of the dead were children) caused by ordnance left behind on the firing range of our Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Bamiyan province.
Labour has been steadily improving its gender balance… yet just as steadily losing the generational battle to the Greens
The narrative that our farmers are ‘doing it tough’ plays into a number of wellworn stereotypes…
Asking whether this new, environmentally focussed party can make the 5% MMP threshold may be the wrong question…
Clearly, the National Party hierarchy is very, very excited about Christopher Luxon
Police pursuits have a track record that makes them more dangerous than the original risk. Armed police units belong in the same category. The more insidious examples have to do with terrorism.
Gordon Campbell on National’s Stone Age package of welfare proposals Bad enough that the National Party led by Simon Bridges is still aiming to run […]
Gordon Campbell on the killing of the Islamic State leader So…as a few other reports have noted, the US has now killed the Islamic State […]
Land Information Minister Eugenie Sage has allowed a Japanese-owned forestry company called Pan Pac Forest Products to bypass the Overseas Investment Office, and buy thousands of hectares of New Zealand land, without prior vetting and (apparently) without conditions attached.
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