On How The Pentagon’s Colonisation Of Australia Affects Us
Foreign policy and national security decisions tend to feel like they’re happening at a vast distance from our day-to-day existence. The rent, the food bill […]
Gordon Campbell On The Politics Of The R16 Social Media Ban
ByIf political science really was a science, and the people in lab coats tried to create the perfect political issue in the lab, the end [...] Read More »
Gordon Campbell On The Owl Service By Alan Garner
ByIn this entry in the series on classic children’s books, the owls are not what they seem, but the English stay true to type. For [...] Read More »
On How The US v Canada Trade War Benefits China
ByHe’s on the blue team. He’s always making mistakes for which he needs to apologise, to the eye rolling exasperation of his colleagues. I’m talking [...] Read More »
Gordon Campbell On Why New Taxes Are A Good Thing, And Dolly Parton RIP
ByTaxaphobes. They’re running amok in Parliament. Both the major parties have joined ACT in assuming that the voting public is as phobic about tax as [...] Read More »
Gordon Campbell On Why NZ Should Be Denouncing Trump’s Appeasement Of North Korea
ByLabour’s pursuit of a ‘National-lite’ approach to tax and fiscal policy continues. Its painfully slow release of policy has finally revealed that alongside its anaemic [...] Read More »
Gordon Campbell On The Links Between Go Dog. Go!, The 1950s Red Scare And Shakespeare’s Sonnets
ByThis week’s essay in the series about classic children’s books features P.D. Eastman’s hymn to perpetual motion… Once read, this book is never forgotten. Like [...] Read More »
Gordon Campbell On Opportunity’s Turn In The Political Spotlight
ByEven in their most desperate moments, it is almost impossible to imagine that either Labour or National would ever embrace a Citizens Income or a [...] Read More »
Gordon Campbell On National’s Long Whimper Of Discontent
ByChristopher Luxon went into and came out of today’s special caucus meeting as damaged goods. If survival is to be counted as winning, it has [...] Read More »
Gordon Campbell On National’s Abusive, Co-Dependent Relationship With Christopher Luxon
ByCorrection: In this article I have mis-stated the rules around casting a vote in a place other than the electorate in which you are enrolled. [...] Read More »
Gordon Campbell On Tom’s Midnight Garden By Philippa Pearce
ByThis week’s essay on classic children’s books features Philippa Pearce’s great YA novel about memory and loss. The image of Ely Cathedral is from circa [...] Read More »
Gordon Campbell On Christopher Luxon’s No Good, Very Bad Fortnight
ByDecades ago, the Washington Post ran a carton showing White House advisors gibbering in terror backstage as a beaming Ronald Reagan suddenly looked away from [...] Read More »
Gordon Campbell On A Week Of Luxon And Peters, Unhinged
ByNewsflash: PM Christopher Luxon does not take any responsibility for the condition in which the New Zealand economy currently finds itself. Not his problem. He’s [...] Read More »