Gordon Campbell On Bob Dylan At 80
Bob Dylan turns 80 today. And at such a moment, are we gathered here to praise him, or to bury him and erect a monument? […]
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Gordon Campbell on the Solar Winds hack, and on buying Bob Dylan
Earlier this month, the huge Solar Winds hack became public knowledge. Reportedly, the victims had been accessed over a period of months starting in March […]
Gordon Campbell on why raising benefits is a better option than spending on infrastructure
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…
Gordon Campbell on how the Treasury debacle reflects New Zealand’s wider security problems
The scenario of Treasury being victimised by demon hackers was still being allowed to be peddled in public, even after Treasury was told no such hack had occurred.
Gordon Campbell on ministerial transparency, presidential lies (and Bob Dylan)
Minister gets inadequate advice from departmental officials, gets caught out. That’s embarrassing, but hardly of lasting impact…
Gordon Campbell on why deportation decisions should be transparent
Kicking the problematic cases upstairs for the Minister to operate as some kind of ‘last chance saloon’ is to turn the deportation decision into a lottery.
Gordon Campbell on (not) taking responsibility, terrorism porn, and Dylan’s 76th birthday
So Martin Matthews, our current Auditor-General wishes he could have detected “earlier” the fraud that occurred on his watch at the Ministry of Transport.
Gordon Campbell on the Surplus, And Bob Dylan
To quote the distinguished Nobel laureate, “Something is happening here, and you don’t know what it is, do you Mr Jones?”
The Complicatist : Bob Dylan himself, and by others
Some Dylan obscurities and cover versions to mark the release of the expanded Basement Tapes…
The Complicatist: Alan Lomax
A biography of the man responsible for much of the folk, blues and subsequent pop music traditions we know today
The Complicatist : Kurt Vile, and the allure of cover versions
Rock anthems can be their own worst enemy