Punishing Chelsea Manning
Chelsea Manning is a hero. She exposed the truth of what the US Military were really doing in Iraq and their war crimes remain a stain alongside so many other stains caused by America’s corporate wars.
Author: Martyn Bradbury
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Cash for copy site ‘The Spinoff’ states Bravo ‘not a client’
Cash for copy site – the supposed saviour of journalism – The blue/green millennial Spinoff has felt a certain amount of pressure recently over the blurry line between their cash for copy products and their copy…
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That time in the High Court when I argued how much I loathed Cameron Slater
It was a pretty surreal moment in the High Court yesterday arguing with a High Court Lawyer how much I loathed Cameron Slater…
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Prisoner compo vs skinny person compo highlights a hollow society
If you want someone to blame, look at the underfunded and burnt out public services who’ve become callous in their obligations to those in their care. If prisoner rights were at the forefront of Corrections priorities, the investigation to ensure they were being released at the right time would have occurred and demanded change.
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The Spinoff calls for more white people coverage of Auckland Mayoralty – really?
Auckland is the largest Pacifica and Maori Urban city in the world, yet their voices, their aspirations and their reality is rarely ever listened to.
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What many opponents of Trump seem to be horribly missing in the latest opinion polls from America
At this stage, it doesn’t even matter if Hillary wins, Trump has won. The hate he has injected into the body politic is unlike anything we’ve seen in modern times and the long term carcinogenic impacts of that type of political cancer are difficult to predict.
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Let’s be honest about what the Corrections Blunder is really about shall we?
This isn’t a ‘blunder’ – it’s the truth about a civil service that has become uncivil. About public services that are supposed to be the bastions of egalitarianism essential to a progressive liberal democracy mutating into the cruelest of torture devices used by the State to keep the poor too terrified to fight back.
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Gifting something that isn’t yours to gift: What Kermadec’s fiasco says about us
It’s always funny how it’s supposed to be Maori who just roll over and have their private property taken off them for the benefit of the public
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The facade of local democracy in Auckland
The fundamental problem of engagement in local democracy comes down to the grim reality that most of the democracy at a local level is a facade.
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Breakfast on TV3 vs Breakfast on TV One is a clash between two bald old media monoliths fighting over a comb
The new TVNZ Breakfast Team look like they are insurance brokers for a new company that gets most of its new client enrolments at malls…