Breaking Sad – Why the meth epidemic is happening in NZ
I think one of the fundamental misunderstandings by journalists and politicians over the new P epidemic is that they don’t understand the economics and power struggles at work.
Martyn Bradbury
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Why Judith Collins is the only one happy with Gower’s Poll and why she suspended Ngapari Nui’s voluntary work in Whanganui Prison
…Collins is blowing her dog whistle now for a reason.
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A short history for the media of Stephen Joyce losing his cool
…Joyce has played fast and loose with the rules since he entered Parliament. That he’s continuing it now should surprise no one.
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Labour saves its best present for last – why Little’s Housing plan is a political game changer more than a solution to poverty
In terms of a political game changer, the Labour Party’s final present to NZ on its 100th Birthday of 100 000 affordable homes is about as good as it gets.
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Andrew Little – the quiet revolutionary and the thirst to rebuild a civil society
I’ve personally known 5 Labour Party leaders. Lange, Clark, Goff, Shearer and Cunliffe. Lange wrote columns for the University Magazine I edited, I met Clark dozens of times, I went around to Goff’s house for a BBQ, I used to catch up with Shearer for coffees now and then and I’ve hung out with Cunliffe.
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The NZ media’s farcical new critique of the opposition – why you should show it contempt
With Labour’s 100th Birthday and with National stumbling so badly, the mainstream media pundits are lining up a new narrative. The old narrative was ‘National are so successful because they are so moderate’.
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A threadbare present for 100 year birthday – Labour underwhelms with 1000 state houses
Labour have probably won the next election. The nifty, ‘we will build houses while National will sell them’ is the perfect simplistic juxtaposition that loads emotional attachment where ideology once resided.
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No John Key – the Housing Bubble you built is YOUR problem, not the Reserve Banks
John Key is desperately thrashing around pretending like he’s actually doing something about the housing crisis so that middle NZ get conned again.
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China & Saudi Arabia – why would we want to trade with butchers and vampires?
The response to highlighting the appalling human rights of some of those country’s we are trying to cut free trade deals with is always ‘if we only traded with those we agree with we wouldn’t trade at all’.
I call bullshit on that on two grounds.
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Labour: 100 years old with barely any presence
Well it’s a 100 years of Labour and what can one say? A political movement that began with thunder manages to barely cause a fart these days.