Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
Judith screaming Labour have to tell us all whether or not they intend to bring in rent controls is music to our collective ears because it’s immensely popular with renters who had lost hope Labour would do anything for them.
The grotesquely incompetent and corrupt Corrections Department must attack and denigrate Kelvin Davis as quickly as possible before the reports into their obscene handling of the Waikeria Prison riots come to light.
Thank you @MBIEgovtnz
Neoliberalism in NZ can’t exist without the never ending perverse cultural propaganda to promote its mythologies.
…Covid is just the first wave of external black swan disruptions erupting incessantly around us now, each one compounding upon the other.
One year on from lockdown and we have slumping GDP…
Property speculators are just like Casinos, booze barons and tobacco pimps – they are all necessary evils who require the jackboot of State regulation constantly applied to their throats to keep them in line.
Protect us because Jacinda won’t.
This is what the political muscle of Gen X + Gen Y being larger than the Boomer voter block looks like.
I love how Simon Brown through shear attrition has risen to be something of a thing in National because I think his Mr Bean awkward foolishness is comedic gold.
