Worst Case Delta Scenario – NZ is about to be tested in ways we haven’t seen in living memory
The country is on a precipice and I don’t think people appreciate how large a flock of black swans are circling.
Deconstructing Headlines
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
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New Poll – Labour & ACT soar
The big story is ACT continuing to cannibalise National vote and the continued death spiral of the National Party.
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If this meaningless draft carbon-cutting report is our ‘nuclear moment’, then Lange has swallowed the Uranium on his breath
Nero fiddled while Rome burned, Labour and the Greens are hash tagging while the planet melts.
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Another Level 3 Lockdown – Winners & Losers
Another fucking week in fucking lockdown.
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Late Stage Capitalism Lockdown: Blaming sex workers, gang members, Maori & Pacifica – who we have become under Delta
The specter of a very Covid Christmas looms.
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Winston’s Covid Disinformation: Winners & Losers
Winston’s appalling meltdown over the weekend on The Nation has deep political ramifications.
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Arise the Socialist Wellington Central Labour WonkState monolith (minus any beauty or grace)
Labour didn’t expect to win 2017 and they didn’t expect to win an MMP majority in 2020 so they had…
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Andrew Little is either lying or grotesquely misinformed: How Labour failed the medicinal cannabis industry
How Labour failed the medicinal cannabis industry the way they failed us with the Supermarket duopoly
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If Goff stands down: The case for a Progressive Auckland Mayoralty Primary
Auckland is at a cross roads and unless Council starts making life radically easier for Aucklanders there won’t be a city worth governing.