Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
Remember when the media breathlessly screamed the PM not only knew about a sexual assault but covered it up and then went really quiet on that insinuation? Yeah, well funny how everyone screamed NZ First had broken the law & now watch all the walking back on that claim.
For $500 000 I expect a teleportation portal at the bottom of the damned thing that immediately transports me to an Amsterdam coffee shop!
…it is time to restructure the edifice and doing that requires a tax that hits the richest hardest.
This isn’t about middle class anti-vaxxer yoga mums and lazy solo mothers, this is an abject failure of public health policy and it is shameful.
I was genuinely shocked at the low level of General Knowledge we seem to collectively have – I didn’t even think any of this was ‘knowledge’, just basic basic basic facts – “Is Winston Churchill a real person’ – I mean, WTF?
I think I’m done with Labour.
Their response to our neoliberal public service is MORE neoliberalism???
There are two issues with Ihumātao, one is a wider existential issue and the other is Realpolitik.
If NZ First has broken the law, throw the book at NZ First, but I remember recently when the media were breathlessly insinuating that the Prime Minister not only knew about a serious sexual assault but that she had actively covered it up
This realisation that large corporations operating for regimes that aren’t democratic could buy strategic assets is the sudden reason why new regulations are being finally applied to overseas investment…
So how does Labour trick the bigoted sleepy hobbits of Muddle Nu Zilind into agreeing to a lift in welfare payments without the bigoted sleepy hobbits of Muddle Nu Zilind losing their shit?