Gordon Campbell On Why Having Elections Less Often Is A Bad Idea
Are we feeling the country is in such capable hands, that we can afford to take a longer break between elections? Outside the parliamentary bubble […]
Gordon Campbell On Why Our China Panic Is About To Get Expensive
Allegedly, the defence environment has changed, and New Zealand thus needs to spend significantly more on Defence. The rationale is that China (our main trading […]
Gordon Campbell On The Fall And Rise Of Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid
ByGood to see that this year, the New Zealand film societies are celebrating what would have been Sam Peckinpah’s 100th birthday with what they are [...] Read More »
Gordon Campbell On Why Europe Is Being Made To Go It Alone
ByNow that the US has ripped up the Atlantic alliance, Europe is more vulnerable now than at any time since the mid-1930s. Apparently, Europe and [...] Read More »
Gordon Campbell On Why “Golden Visas” Are A Losing Bet On Growth
ByFor obvious reasons, people feel uneasy when the right to be a citizen is sold off to wealthy foreigners. Even selling the right to residency [...] Read More »
Gordon Campbell On Surviving The 47th US President
ByThree weeks in, and the 24/7 news cycle is not helping anyone feel calm and informed about the second Trump presidency. One day, the US [...] Read More »
Gordon Campbell On The Government’s Epic Fails In Jobs And Housing
ByThrough its austerity measures, the coalition government has engineered a rise in unemployment in order to reduce inflation while – simultaneously – cracking down harder [...] Read More »
Gordon Campbell On Trump’s Tariff Wars
ByTrump being Trump, it won’t come as a shock to find that he regards a strong US currency (bolstered by high tariffs on everything made [...] Read More »
Gordon Campbell On DeepSeek, And China’s Inexorable Rise
ByThe week’s big story has been about China’s DeepSeek low-cost AI model. Because DeepSeek requires fewer advanced chips, its advent has had a huge impact [...] Read More »
Gordon Campbell On The Government’s Gaslighting About Growth
ByDonald Trump made his fortune by speculating in real estate. These days, Christopher Luxon makes a lot of his money the very same way. True, [...] Read More »
Gordon Campbell On The Looming Conflicts Within The Trump Presidency
ByHow long is it going to take for the MAGA faithful to realise that those titans of Big Tech and venture capital sitting up close [...] Read More »
Gordon Campbell On The Rise Of Simeon Brown
ByYesterday’s demotion of Shane Reti was inevitable. Reti’s attempt at a re-assuring bedside manner always did have a limited shelf life, and he would have [...] Read More »
Gordon Campbell On More Threats To Democracy From David Seymour
ByEarly reports indicate that the temporary Israel/Hamas ceasefire deal (due to take effect on Sunday) will allow for the gradual release of groups of Israeli [...] Read More »
Gordon Campbell On The History Of Doo Wop Music
ByThe decade between 1952 and the early 1960s was the peak period for the style of music we now call doo wop, after which it [...] Read More »