It’s been a tough week for Labour and a timely reminder that the mainstream media are there to see through the vested interests of their corporate masters, it sure as hell isn’t there to serve the interests of the least powerful in society.
Political Editor of the Spinoff, Doubting Toby, and the Political Reporter for Fairfax, Skeptical Vernon, both believe the latest Newshub polls are nothing for the left to celebrate…
I am very surprised by the backlash on social media towards our athletes who win medals that aren’t gold. Winning silver or bronze isn’t ‘losing gold’, yet that’s the way the media present it, and it’s certainly what you will see on social media.
Prepare to be made sicker.
The Nation ran a Auckland Mayoralty special and it was as dull as you can imagine.
The obscenity of Australia’s detention camp in Naru is surfacing again. Refugee children driven to suicide because of sexual abuse meted out by guards is about as grim as it gets, but the true horror of what is happening in Australia has infected NZ as well.
The cynicism of this National Government is breathtaking at times.
With Russia mass cheating, and the violence netted out to the local population who protested and the grotesque pollution it’s all causing – this Olympics seems more damaged than ever before.
We need to hack the State so that these welfare agencies are actually looking after the welfare of those needing their services and not pushing counter productive policies that actually end up hurting those people.
Why, oh why, would Stuart Nash ruin Labour’s moment in the Sun huh?