Gun buy back is a success but has generated a toxic sludge
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.
Deconstructing Headlines
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
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My submission to the Justice Committee looking into low voter turn out at local elections
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.
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Dear Everyone, 66-year-old Canterbury bricklayer Colin Wilson has every right to his activism – don’t fall for the trap
…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.
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After the meth hysteria, why would State tenants trust Housing NZ with mass surveillance? How to destroy their sensors!
Well, well, well. What do we have here? The mass surveillance state intruding into the homes of state tenants… Surveillance…
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The horror of ‘Sir’ Ron Brierley
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’.
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2019 – The year of entropy and walls
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
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The biggest lesson for NZ Left from Corbyn’s defeat – go truly radical in 2023
There is one graph that illustrates the biggest lesson for the NZ Left from Corbyn’s defeat, it’s this one…
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TDB 2019 Politics Awards
It’s the end of the year and it’s been a frenetic one politically. Jacinda promised transformation and clearly didn’t know…
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The Daily Blog 7 NZ Heroes of 2019
2019 was year of pain and suffering with only tiny infant steps of progress but there were amongst us people who led fearlessly and with courage. If we are to seek meaning from the last 12 months around our Sun, let’s do that by saluting those of us who led by example and hope we can attempt to emulate their strength.