Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
…Scott Morrison is a right wing fundamentalist Christian climate denying coal loving arsehole who won the last election online by playing to the worst angels of the Australian nature.
What a pack of spineless cowards.
Police should look to write warnings and destroy any guns found rather than a punitive arrest and prosecution model so as to not enflame events that could spin out of control.
There needs to be a wholesale re-investment into Local Government so that instead of being a faux democratic choice, citizens actually feel like their vote means something rather than an act masquerading as democracy for the illusion of legitimacy.
…comparing your book being turned around to witch burnings, segregated voting rights and domestic violence manages to make Trump sound modest and Prince Andrew look well grounded.
Well, well, well. What do we have here? The mass surveillance state intruding into the homes of state tenants… Surveillance…
When I heard ‘Sir’ Ron Brierley had been arrested for child pornography, my immediate thought was ‘He must have A LOT of child porn for a rich architect of neoliberalism to get arrested’.
The Free market revolution of the 1980s mutilated the domestic working classes of the West while woke middle class identity politics on social media alienated them enough to be manipulated by Neoliberal frauds like Trump, Boris & ScoMo who played to that resentment
There is one graph that illustrates the biggest lesson for the NZ Left from Corbyn’s defeat, it’s this one…