Trump’s Iran, Venezuela and China gambit
To date, Trump’s nationalism has had an isolationist feel about it when it comes to his foreign affairs agenda.
Martyn Bradbury
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Can we all just pause for Dave Macpherson and his whanau?
What else can a parent do when the state kills your child? You run to be a public voice on the organisation that killed and you highlight the incompetence and corruption and for doing so get sacked when the Government wants to sweep it all under the carpet.
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All white gun owners are learning is how NZ Police treat brown people every week
…Police overkill has been a feature of urban policing for a long time now, it’s just this current group being targeted haven’t been targeted in the past.
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Sacking the Auckland Transport Board & cutting deals to decongest traffic in central Auckland – JT vs Goff week 1
You can say many things about JT, lack of vision isn’t one of them.
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Paula Bennett is a political coward
Let’s get this straight, Paula Bennett is such a coward, that she refused to appear on a TV panel with Chloe Swarbrick to debate cannabis reform?
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Mega-strike a taste of the new militant Union landscape in New Zealand
Ever since the National Party neutered the Union movement with the Employment Contracts Act, Public sector Union’s have been cowered into acquiescence and the militancy evaporated.
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The PMs censorship panel highlights all that’s wrong with the current social media/free speech debate
So the panel advising the PM on censuring the internet is an industry spokesperson, a corporate media interest, an angry Twitter rage tech person, a lawyer, a state wonk and someone who used to sing Popera?
And this isn’t a joke?
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Sexual assaults in prison shouldn’t get ideologically hijacked
Let us have a serious debate about sexual assault in prisons by acknowledging double bunking has been an enormous failure in keeping prisoners safe and that it must be removed as a policy if we are to do anything meaningful on sexual assaults in prison.
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Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm shouldn’t an advisory board to the PM on censoring the internet require some academics and experts on civil rights and freedom of speech?
A couple of tech people, a lawyer, industry interests, corporate media interests and Lizzie Marvelly???
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Waatea News Column: State Spying and a Police who see no spying, hear no spying and speak no spying
John Campbell’s remarkable investigation at the beginning of the week into a Government agency tasked with looking after earthquake survivors using corporate spies to secretly tape those complaining was made more important by the remarkable announcement midweek from the NZ Police that found nothing illegal in the actions of anyone involved.