1 Year until 2023 NZ election – MMP Spectrum Splintering
Exactly what TDB predicted would happen has happened, we are seeing fracturing of the political spectrum post Covid, look at…
Deconstructing Headlines
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
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Intersecting Epochalities: The Anthropocene, Global Capitalism and COVID-19 (It’s the End of the World, and I feel fine)
Tucked away in a lecture room inside AUT, Professor Wayne Hope gave his latest lecture series focusing on global capitalism…
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Italy has its first woman PM – yay progress, oh wait.
Giorgia Meloni Wins Voting in Italy, in Breakthrough for Europe’s Hard Right Italy turned a page of European history on…
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Costco hysteria shows how insane consumerism is
Hardcore fans queue overnight as retail giant Costco opens door in Auckland for first time The ribbon has been cut…
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Phil Goff – the great Left hope of Labour who wasn’t
Phil and I go back a ways to 2008… Lost file includes details on notorious criminals A confidential file lost…
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Someone just woke up the CTU – finally economic leadership!
Boom! After a few years of drifting without Helen Kelly and some jaw dropping calls like denouncing the Parliament Lawn…
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Liz Truss destroys UK economy with far right economic mythology
When Liz Truss won, I argued she would highlight the tragedy of identity politics because while ticking the diversity box…
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More Pacific worker exploitation to counter China in the Pacific?
Wait, WHAT? Government allows a further 3000 seasonal workers to come to NZ Immigration Minister Michael Wood has announced “the…
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Poll shows Aloha Luxon has all the personality of a smiling gumboot
The latest TVNZ Poll has National stalling and Labour grinding up despite the worst phase of their 5 year Government….
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The case for and against expelling Russian Ambassador from NZ
We have every right to be disgusted by Putin’s latest obscenity to call together 300 000 Russian Dads and Teenagers…