February 2nd – the first real political test of NZ in 2019

By Martyn Bradbury  /  January 7, 2019  /  Deconstructing Headlines, Martyn Bradbury, Most Recent Blogs  /  22 Comments

This could just be a tiny group of clowns pretending to have more support than they really do, or this could be the seeds of something far darker.

How hateful do you have to be to have a problem with drug testing pills at dance festivals?

By Martyn Bradbury  /  January 5, 2019  /  Deconstructing Headlines, Martyn Bradbury, Most Recent Blogs  /  9 Comments

If you are decrying pill testing at dance festivals, just admit that you do so not because of safety or ‘respect my authority’ law worship, just admit you are against it because you are the type of petty NZ hate-tyrant fascist who sadistically gets off on human suffering while masquerading as social concern.

Too woke to joke – what the NZ Left desperately need to understand about alienating voters with smug cultural supremacy

By Martyn Bradbury  /  January 4, 2019  /  Deconstructing Headlines, Martyn Bradbury, Most Recent Blogs  /  13 Comments

Alienating voters to the Left forces them to to vote for the Right, even when the Right’s economic agenda actually ends up hurting those voters while empowering the already wealthy.

I’m sorry, National had the audacity to say WHAT about State Housing?

By Martyn Bradbury  /  January 4, 2019  /  Deconstructing Headlines, Martyn Bradbury, Most Recent Blogs  /  27 Comments

I simply can not take this bullshit seriously…

Pessimistic Predictions for 2019

By Martyn Bradbury  /  January 3, 2019  /  Deconstructing Headlines, Martyn Bradbury, Most Recent Blogs  /  42 Comments

If 2018 was a lost year where the woke left & alt right dominated debate, 2019 could be the year of reactionary entropy.

I’d like to be optimistic, but there’s just no actual reason to be anything other than pessimistic about the damaged horizon looming like a fractured mirror in front of us.

Here are some worst case scenario reckons mixed with some run of the mill ones..

Chris Bishop – The Patron Saint of Niche Policy

By Martyn Bradbury  /  December 30, 2018  /  Deconstructing Headlines, Martyn Bradbury, Most Recent Blogs  /  8 Comments

Of all the things that need our immediate attention in this country – bring your own piss to horse gambling day seems pretty bloody low on the list right?  

The dumbest people of 2018

By Martyn Bradbury  /  December 27, 2018  /  Deconstructing Headlines, Martyn Bradbury, Most Recent Blogs  /  17 Comments

Social Media in 2018 ended up sounding like a cacophony of socially awkward competitively woke Millennials all calling each other out for not being subjectively outraged enough by each others hobby horse issues, but beyond them, there were some really dumb people.

How the Cannabis debate could be lost in NZ

By Martyn Bradbury  /  December 27, 2018  /  Deconstructing Headlines, Martyn Bradbury, Most Recent Blogs  /  14 Comments

The pressure going on is to create a NZ market that benefits the pharmaceutical industry, not the recreational cannabis industry. Finished products that are medical is the aim of that industry, not a loose bud or lose leaf market. Those pharmaceutical interests do not want what America has, they want a tightly regulated medicinal market that benefits them and them alone.

National too distracted to manipulate latest Lord of the Rings drama

By Martyn Bradbury  /  December 24, 2018  /  Deconstructing Headlines, Martyn Bradbury, Most Recent Blogs  /  Comments Off on National too distracted to manipulate latest Lord of the Rings drama

You’ll know who is likely to challenge Simon for the leadership based on who picks this up as an issue to attack Labour with. 

What happens when more Wall St meltdown causes KiwiSaver stampede?

By Martyn Bradbury  /  December 23, 2018  /  Deconstructing Headlines, Martyn Bradbury, Most Recent Blogs  /  22 Comments

I’ve already heard some banks have moved from just allowing you to do this online to needing to go in and meet a bank staff member in an attempt to slow this momentum. The thinking is you are less likely to do it if you have to go through a staff member first.

Latest climate change news and it’s just so much worse than you thought – our last hope is the coin toss of AI

By Martyn Bradbury  /  December 23, 2018  /  Deconstructing Headlines, Martyn Bradbury, Most Recent Blogs  /  34 Comments

Hi folks, I know we are all fighting over very, very important petty shit like Police in pride parades and Māori Santas – but this is your friendly reminder that the fucking planet is melting…