Firing At Will And Firing Up Broadband
Gordon Campbell on the 90 day ‘fire at will’ legislation, and on the faster broadband plan. So much for due consideration to an important change […]
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Gordon Campbell IV's Lord Bingham of Cornhill
Images Kevin List ***** Gordon Campbell talks to Britain’s foremost legal authority about human rights in the post 9/11 world, and the war in Iraq. […]
Gordon Campbell IV’s Lord Bingham of Cornhill
Images Kevin List ***** Gordon Campbell talks to Britain’s foremost legal authority about human rights in the post 9/11 world, and the war in Iraq. […]
Gordon Campbell on the Christian take-over of Wellywood
Everyone knows that Hollywood is a den of godless, Obama –loving pinko liberals. That being so, New Zealand’s transformation, post Rings, into a minor hub […]
The Key To Escape From Thailand?
Gordon Campbell on the escape flights from Thailand, and on taxing people for flying long distances. While the Australians are laying on special Qantas flights […]
What Agenda Now For TVNZ?
Gordon Campbell on the scrapping of Agenda and the future of state broadcasting The recent axing of TVNZ’s current affairs programme Agenda has been only […]
Gordon Campbell on the lack of preparations for the financial crisis
Famous fictional boss CJ didn’t get where he is today by not planning for a financial crisis ***** On paper, the new government’s reaction to […]
Creating Jobs In The Teeth Of The Financial Crisis
By Gordon Campbell Local Government Minister Rodney Hide talks about slashing red tape on Close Up 25.11.08 ***** Giving the local government portfolio to Rodney […]
Gordon Campbell on John Key’s performance in Peru
Image: APEC The clip on last night’s television of George W. Bush genially patting new boy John Key on the back at the APEC gathering […]
90s Cabinet Gets Key Coat of Varnish
Prime Minister in waiting John Key announces his Cabinet ***** The new Cabinet has been greeted with such hosannas from the mainstream media we can […]
Key's Deals With ACT And The Maori Party
***** Despite sitting outside Cabinet, Rodney Hide, Roger Douglas and their ACT Party mates are positioning themselves to be the bean counters in the new […]
Key’s Deals With ACT And The Maori Party
***** Despite sitting outside Cabinet, Rodney Hide, Roger Douglas and their ACT Party mates are positioning themselves to be the bean counters in the new […]
Gordon Campbell On The New Breed Of Conservatives
The premise of Labour’s election campaign was that John Key was either (a) a vacuum waiting to be filled by political expedience or (b) a […]
Gordon Campbell on the new Labour leadership
Not unexpectedly, Phil Goff’s first press conference as Labour leader did include a mea culpa of sorts for the “disconnect’ that had occurred in Labour’s […]
Economic Crisis – How About A Minister Outside Cabinet!
Gordon Campbell on John Key’s peculiar government, and its response to the economic crisis That John Key certainly is a joker. In the face of […]
Gordon Campbell's Election Wrap Up + Predictions
Click to enlarge From now on, this 2008 election can serve as the poster child of MMP. In future, anyone who wants to seriously diss […]
Gordon Campbell’s Election Wrap Up + Predictions
Click to enlarge From now on, this 2008 election can serve as the poster child of MMP. In future, anyone who wants to seriously diss […]
Election 08: Key Urges NZ To Work Together – Clark Stands Down – ACT in Box Seat – Winston Is Gone & Roger Douglas Returns
Live blogged by Scoop Co-editor Alastair Thompson Postscript – 11am 9 November 2008 – Historically speaking the scale of National’s 45.5% vote share in this […]
Election 08: Key Urges NZ To Work Together – Clark Stands Down – ACT in Box Seat – Winston Is Gone & Roger Douglas Returns
Live blogged by Scoop Co-editor Alastair Thompson Postscript – 11am 9 November 2008 – Historically speaking the scale of National’s 45.5% vote share in this […]
Election 2008 – Live Results On Scoop
LIVE ELECTION RESULTS>> Party Status – Overall Graphic – Electorate Table Scoop’s version of the live results can be viewed at the above links. These […]
Campbell: NZ’s Non-Election Comes To A Close
With one day to go, this election campaign continues to be a foregone conclusion that stubbornly refuses to turn into a real contest. The narrative […]
Campbell: NZ's Non-Election Comes To A Close
With one day to go, this election campaign continues to be a foregone conclusion that stubbornly refuses to turn into a real contest. The narrative […]
Gay Marriage Rent Asunder And More Post US Election News
Gordon Campbell Hope you enjoyed Scoop’s blogging on the US elections yesterday. Sure was fun to do. In the aftermath of the victory of Barack […]
Gordon Campbell Live Blogs The US Election
8.20pm Ok, time to wrap this up for the night But first a recap, and then some consideration of the parallels to New Zealand. First, […]
Gordon Campbell: How To Watch A US Election
Click to enlarge On Wednesday, as results come in from the US election, I’ll be blogging the signs/consequences live on Scoop. The target to win […]
Gordon Campbell on Prisons
Click to enlarge Voting commonly plays out as an act of retribution, with the motivation to vote being either a desire to wreak vengeance on […]
Gordon Campbell: Stealing The US Election
Click to enlarge Judging by the polls, the Republicans’ best chance of victory looks like it will require them to screw around with the machinery […]
Keeping The Good Life Going For The Middle Class
Gordon Campbell on National’s welfare plan for the middle class unemployed On Friday, the National Party will unveil the details of its plan to pay […]
Gordon Campbell: Can McCain Make A Comeback
***** Only a week to go, and have John McCain’s attempts at a comeback peaked too soon? Eight days ago, the US opinion polls began […]
National’s dilemma, if elected – if not Labour Lite, then what?
Click to enlarge The irony about National retaining such a handy lead in the polls is that while the public seems to have decided it […]