Gordon Campbell on NZ as an escape hatch for US survivalists
Nice to see that former Internal Affairs Minister Nathan Guy has regained his memory about signing off on Peter Thiel’s bid for citizenship.
Nice to see that former Internal Affairs Minister Nathan Guy has regained his memory about signing off on Peter Thiel’s bid for citizenship.
Shame that the New Zealand government has been missing in action over the weekend, during the time when the Trump presidency has been carrying out […]
So we now we know how much it costs to buy New Zealand citizenship.
The Triumph of Trump.
Already, the White House has made it clear that the media are the new enemy that the new President’s supporters will be encouraged to unite against.
Team of charlatans, bigots and stunningly ignorant crackpots that Trump is appointing to head key federal agencies is alarming.
I repeat the best after you, everyone says so.
If David Cameron was the closest thing John Key had to a political mentor, their successors also share a whole lot in common. Theresa May […]
I figure if this guy can write an inauguration poem, anyone can.
For many on the centre-left, populism is a dirty word, and shorthand for the politics of bigotry.
With hindsight, it is fascinating that so many mainstream news outlets chose not to publish the dossier for so long.
The GOP’s post-election “UNIFIED.” tweet glossed over a few significant issues.
The really compelling modern evidence that the magic potion doesn’t work is the state of Kansas under governor Sam Brownback
Primarily, Meryl Streep’s critical speech last night at the Golden Globes was a defence of journalism and of journalists.
The UN resolution has been one of the most high profile achievements of our diplomacy on the world stage for many years.
I’m not even going to try and rationalise this surrender to a ‘best of’ listicle.
Last weekend’s Cabinet shuffle of the same old names around a few different chairs didn’t tell us much.
Leaving has been his finest gift to caucus, and to the nation. Would that it had been done sooner, but welcome that it be done at all.
Elsewhere in the world, media cutbacks and consolidation haven’t exactly ushered in a bright new era of more diverse, more substantial news coverage.
Gordon Campbell on the new team’s potential Cabinet picks Things will be just the same, but really, really different! Its so exciting! Bill English is […]
Key’s endorsement of English has turned this “contest” into a race for second place.
The resignation of John Key is one thing. The way that Key and his deputy Bill English have screwed the scrum on the leadership succession […]
Without much coverage at all in the West, India has just been engaged for the past few weeks in one of the world’s biggest socio-economic […]
Last week’s conflict between Social Development Minister Anne Tolley and District Court judge Carolyn Henwood illustrated quite a few of the flaws in the system.
Safe to say that no-one, but no-one has had a better 2016 than Vladimir Putin. What an annus mirabilis it has been for him. Somehow, […]
New Zealand likes to think we played ourpart – via the 1981 Springbok tour – in bringing the apartheid regime in South Africa to an […]
We all supposedly agree that the media is going to hell in a tabloid handbasket, but the trends to the contrary can be a bit harder to spot.
The configuration of rail, road and shipping likely to emerge in the longer term, post earthquake, still remains opaque.
Long before the earthquake hit, the dodginess of the government tax cuts programnme was evident in the language of its packaging.
As APEC leaders get together this weekend in Peru, they could be forgiven for looking back nostalgically at Barack Obama’s time in office and wondering […]
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