Gordon Campbell On The Myths Of Frugality In Our Defence Spending
In one sense, Peru is the poster child of political instability, having gone through nine presidents in the past 10 years, with several ending up […]
Gordon Campbell On Having The Backbone To Restrict Our Defence Spending
ByLynda Topp can look after herself. Yet the rejoinder by Paul Goldsmith to her criticism of our irresponsible spending spree on Defence was so patronising [...] Read More »
Gordon Campbell On Budget 2026
ByThe Luxon government won the last election by claiming that it alone possessed the managerial competence to fix the nation’s cost of living crisis. Three [...] Read More »
Gordon Campbell On Labour’s Vanishing Act
ByChris Hipkins is testing the patience (and allegiance) of every centre- left voter. We may be now only a few months out from the election, [...] Read More »
Gordon Campbell On The Social Housing Debacle, And The Red Tape Fantasy
ByFair is foul, and foul is fair. Truly, the witches in Macbeth had a pretty accurate take on the government’s new demands for social housing [...] Read More »
Gordon Campbell On Goodnight Moon By Margaret Wise Brown
ByThe Werewolf series on classic children’s books continues this week with the bedtime favourite Goodnight Moon, and the brief life of the tragic genius who [...] Read More »
Gordon Campbell On The Public Service Chainsaw Massacre
ByAccording to Finance Minister Nicola Willis, trashing the public service (“an old clunky system” says Willis, a “make work scheme” says Christopher Luxon, “a job [...] Read More »
Gordon Campbell On James Cameron, And The Paramount Bid For Warners
ByLate last year, our resident Hollywood titan James Cameron got a good deal of publicity for his opposition on principle to the attempted sale of [...] Read More »
Gordon Campbell On Classic Children’s Books: Badger’s Parting Gifts
ByEvery Friday, Werewolf is re-publishing some essays about classic children’s book, that I began writing in 2009. This essay on Badger’s Parting Gifts has been [...] Read More »
Gordon Campbell On Pauline Hanson’s Rise, And The TOP Renaissance
ByRoutinely in politics, there is a double standard for outrage. The same people who regarded Jacinda Ardern as a jackbooted tyrant seem to be quite [...] Read More »
Gordon Campbell On How US Courts Are Helping Donald Trump Steal The Mid-Terms
ByThe world has been quietly hoping and praying that the Republicans will lose control of the lower House or Senate – or both – in [...] Read More »
Gordon Campbell On Children’s Book Classics: The Moomins
ByAbout 15 years ago on Werewolf, I started writing a series of articles about classic children’s books. Over the next few months, these articles will [...] Read More »
Gordon Campbell On The Political Panic Over Immigration
ByIn the wake of WW2, immigration policy was driven by a mixture of compassion for the refugees of war, and by a less admirable desire [...] Read More »