Gordon Campbell on Labour’s less than radical housing package
Houses are now like Bitcoin with a street address, a speculative currency priced beyond the reach of ordinary humans. The public is not impressed. Don’t […]
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Gordon Campbell on the Royal Commission’s report into the Christchurch mosque shootings
For an 800 page monster, the Royal Commission report into the Christchurch shootings has proved to be a strangely weightless affair. Everyone – the Police, […]
Gordon Campbell on how America’s Middle East allies are poisoning the ground Joe Biden will inherit
As even the US mainstream media has been reporting, the prime motive for the murder of Iran’s top nuclear scientist Dr. Mohsen Fakhrizadeh (by Israeli […]
Gordon Campbell on Chris Liddell, the RCEP, and reviving our trade with Iran under Biden
Being nominated by US President Donald Trump to head a key international organisation should have been the kiss of death for any nominee, even before […]
Gordon Campbell and 22 short takes on the US election
Finally, the long night of Donald Trump’s presidency is over. To date, the courts have been given no cause to conclude that the exhaustively lengthy […]
Gordon Campbell on the when and where of election results, vote suppression, reasons to panic etc
In the final hours before polls close at 1pm tomorrow (NZ time) in the US election, at least four major question marks remain: namely, the […]
Gordon Campbell on debates as game-shows, and why mixing politics and religion is a bad idea
Political debates have dominated the week’s campaign cycle, here and elsewhere. Routinely, leaders’ debates ( and polls) are the roadside diners and comfort stops on […]
Gordon Campbell on the SFO’s investigation of New Zealand First
On one level, New Zealand First has been the agent of its own misfortune. The New Zealand First Foundation handling the donations at the centre […]
Gordon Campbell on that $4 billion hit to National’s economic cred
National released its economic and tax policy last Friday. Weirdly, the plan was announced right at the end of the news week, when whatever impact […]
Gordon Campbell on tourism’s endless sense of grievance
Sad that a once in a century pandemic should have come along before the government had a clearly thought out plan for rescuing all the […]
Gordon Campbell on Trump’s current chances of re-election
How likely is it that the world will wake up on November 4th facing the prospect of another four years of Donald Trump? Short answer: […]
Gordon Campbell on why Trump is unlikely to get re-elected
So….Is the world likely to have to endure a second term of Donald Trump’s proto-fascist presidency? Probably not, at this point. The opinion polls – […]
Gordon Campbell on the politics of using the word “fascist”
“Fascist” is one of those labels with the ability to capsize any debate. Call your opponents “fascists” – or “agitators” or “terrorists” or “scum” and […]
Gordon Campbell on the Twitter wars, and the Muller muddles
Whatever the failings of our own politicians, spare a kind thought for the majority of Americans who did not vote for Donald Trump. Sure, it […]
Gordon Campbell on the (lack of) alternatives to Simon Bridges
Spin the roulette wheel. The suggestion that tomorrow’s headline poll numbers will decide the fate of Simon Bridges is a fairly extreme example of poll-driven […]
Gordon Campbell on the oil price smackdown, and on National’s fatuous crusade against red tape
Safe to say, Vladimir Putin did not expect the response he has received amidships from the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia. Earlier, Russia chose to […]
The best albums of 2016
I’m not even going to try and rationalise this surrender to a ‘best of’ listicle.