Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
Strip out the one off re-valuation of Kiwirail and the change in how IRD books tax, and you have $4billion in real surplus.
That’s a problem.
It really says something about us when bloody South Park are greater champions for free speech than the NZ Identity Politics Left.
The tensions inside NZ First between the angry rednecks who want angry redneck policy and Winston’s more rational stance combined with the retail politics need for vested interests to fund you will run riot because NZ First doesn’t have any real ideological values.
Trump is either remarkably ignorant of the geopolitics here or he is nakedly corrupt and is getting some type of unseen quid pro quo out of Erdoğan.
Or both.
A public university and a public agency, two symptoms within our public service of the same disease.
Cough, as TDB pointed out in our How Stuart Nash wins National the 2020 election blog.
Gang numbers are up.
Meth prices are down.
What the hell happened and when does this political time bomb go off?
Get used to the massive disruption Extinction Rebellion Aotearoa caused Wellington today, because it’s only going to get worse.
Let’s put aside the fact that Oranga Tamariki is a brown washed state agency powered by white saviour delusions using neoliberal settings to argue immediate intervention to save the State money downstream.
Simon Bridges has given us a glimpse of what National will lead with into the 2020 election. It’s right wing economic mythology, mixed with demonisation of those on welfare combined with tough on crime Police state bullshit.
I’m sorry this has taken so long to write but I’ve just stopped laughing. Early last month, Boss Womble at the Ministry of Public Wombles, Peter Hughes, wrote this hilarious column…