When John Tamihere is complaining about civility in political discourse, we are all in trouble
John Tamihere wrote a sharp critique this week of the manner in which our political discourse has denigrated into malicious…
Deconstructing Headlines
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
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Young People of NZ – Flee this neoliberal user pays experiment of a country and never look back! Don’t let the Westpac TV advert be your future!
Brain drain: Kiwis heading overseas as living costs rise In March, Kiwibank predicted New Zealand would have an annual net…
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Grant Robertson is right, 6.9% inflation spike isn’t Government’s fault, but it soon will be!
As TDB has been predicting, the second wave of Covid is the economic maelstrom it is creating and the inflation…
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Why the MIQ advice issue isn’t really the smoking gun the Right are pretending it is
Yawn… MIQ not justified beyond November, health officials told govt last year Top health officials agreed in November last year…
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Torturing NZ prisoners is counter productive – I can’t believe I have to actually say that
I can’t believe that I actually need to articulate this, but torturing NZ prisoners is counter productive… Tupe Masina spent…
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The hilarious irony why NZ Police might be pepper spraying children
More than 480 children and young people pepper sprayed by police Children as young as 10 and 12 are being…
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Luxon’s Labour Day/Matariki Blunder reveals a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing
Oh Jesus, how crass… Another public holiday ‘a luxury we can’t really afford’ – Luxon National says Aotearoa “can’t really…
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New Poll: National and Labour both up and Māori Party are becoming kingmakers
Latest Taxpayer’s Union Poll is out and it shows National and Labour up and the dynamic that TDB has been…
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Anti-Vaxx Qanon feral lunatics make argument against lowering voting age to 16 far more difficult to make
Supreme Court Agrees To Hear Voting Age Challenge In a short judgment issued today te Kōti Mana Nui o Aotearoa…
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Can anyone tell the difference between a Sensible Sentencing Lynch Mob and a Woke Lynch Mob?
The creation of the Sensible Sentencing Trust in 2001 was like a nuclear bomb exploding in NZ politics. The raw…