Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
ACT have finally released their environmental policy, and it’s a fascist romper stomper blitzkrieg of every worst element of the free market set loose on a rapidly warming planet.
Who will you trust to save the Shire?
Jacinda Baggins or Judith Nazgul?
Anytime you have the farming community on its hind legs screaming about something, you know you are doing the right thing…
Judith Collins caught in stoush as Taiwan’s Auckland representative rejects China’s ‘overtly untrue’ message to her Taiwan’s representative in Auckland…
I say ‘protest’ because yesterday wasn’t a valid political expression of any philosophy beyond naked chaos…
This election is based on how frightened people feel during this pandemic.
Radical change is required, I know that is frightening, but we have no options now and if Labour have been entrusted with a Democratic Majority, then that transformative change requires an immediate harvest to sustain it.
The GCSB know who the State actor is.
From barely 1% to 6.8% in the latest UMR internal poll, one of the big stories of this election is the explosion of support for ACT, an explosion the Daily Blog warned about 2 years ago during the Free Speech fiasco.
Corrections and WINZ aer both underfunded for the task they need to perform and both have toxic cultures that abuse those they are supposed to be invested in.