Gordon Campbell on ridding the Net of white supremacist propaganda
So there is to be a Royal Commission inquiry into the mosque attacks… at least this will be somewhat at arms length from the government whose agencies will be under scrutiny.
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Gordon Campbell on what the Ardern government could have done better
Across New Zealand and the world , PM Jacinda Ardern has justifiably won praise for how she has responded to the Christchurch attacks. There have been a few areas where the performance of the government has been less than stellar.
Gordon Campbell on why the government shouldn’t run the Christchurch massacre inquiry
Yesterday Jacinda Ardern announced an inquiry into the background to the mosque attacks and into the role played by the SIS, GCSB, Police, Customs, and Immigration.
Gordon Campbell on Shane Jones, and a Huawei update
For better and worse, this is a small country, and the business community in Northland is smaller still…
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 banning Huawei fits into our new hostility towards China
Consumers will probably have to pay more for 5G services, as a result of the decision to invoke national security concerns to ban Huawei technology from our new 5G networks.
Gordon Campbell on Thompson+ Clark, and Russia’s FIFA World Cup
Daily, the coalition government keeps running into examples of the toxic legacy left behind by National – and just as regularly, even the simple fixes […]
Gordon Campbell on the Todd Barclay cover-up (and the GCSB’s support for Groser)
[Go to Todd Barclay comment] When a small town kid makes good, everyone in the village – who after all, raised that child – is […]
Gordon Campbell on the new legislation for the spy agencies
No surprise to hear that Labour has few problems with the government’s proposed extension of the powers of the intelligence agencies
From the Hood: Not flag-waving; flag-drowning
Running a few ideas up the flagpole to see if anyone repeatedly chops them down