Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
If it’s anything like him raising human rights concerns with China, Simon will come out praising Duterte’s tough on crime approach and ask him to visit Strike Force Raptor when he launches it!
There is something wonderfully normal in this new age of subjective rage watching a family tearing itself to pieces with all members claiming they are the wounded victim while everyone else takes sides on social media.
Sanders vs Warren represents the great Class vs Identity Politics schism on the Left and those woke Identity Politics activists won’t tolerate the patriarchy robbing them of another female candidate for President so expect the name calling and tribal social media lynch mobs that make them about as a popular as Donald Trump at a Queer Intersectionist Feminist Folk Festival to erupt if Bernie wins.
Look, I appreciate that anyone who questions Chinese influence in NZ politics gets outed on twitter as a xenophobic racist, but only the Spinoff really listens to the woke anymore and I think we are getting to a point in all of this where National’s constant acquiescence to Chinese Business is fast becoming a national security issue…
The climate crisis is erupting at speed and force now, radical action is going to be the only action, and to watch the largest Political Party in this country continue to deny that is fast becoming an intellectual obscenity.
I despise Auckland Transport. I have been a patient and frustrated user of public transport in this city my entire life, and the joke service provided over the decades has left me bitter and angry at their never ending substandard incompetence.
More than any other Political President before him, Donald Trump has understood, harnessed and manipulated cultural political resentment in a manner that has tapped into deep seated economic anxieties caused by free market globalisation.
Giving climate denying kids a cuddle is the least of our worries with this curriculum, that it doesn’t begin to go far enough is its real problem.
The same people cheering Police for this ridiculously over the top gun raid were screaming when it was the Ureweras but the greatest hypocrisy is the statement by Simon Bridges that he is suddenly worried about the ‘politicisation’ of the Police…
For progressives who give a damn about the reality of the climate crisis, the 2020 election is proving difficult.