Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
Because climate change is a political problem & not a scientific question, The Daily Blog is naming all cyclones after our MPs and Companies who have done so much to hold back genuine climate change reform – this new one that is joining our increasingly erratic and weather pattern is called ‘Cyclone Hon Steven Joyce’ in honour of Steven Joyce who did sweet FA in 9 years on climate change.
…what do the Press Gallery Political Editors need to start doing some, you know, journalism?
…as a witness in this case, it was apparent to me that the Judy didn’t seem to have any comprehension whatsoever of defamation law.
Jacinda visited our arsehole cousins across the ditch and all she got was this T-shirt…
Jacinda is off to the Pacific to desperately try to counter Chinese influence throughout the Pacific…
What many on the Left, and certainly within the political punditry, don’t appreciate or understand is that Labour’s victory last year was set in motion a year earlier by Matt McCarten’s ‘Big Tent’ strategy that aimed at expanding Labour’s voter base while eliminating National’s support partners.
The horror of WINZ is once again laid bare with policy so draconian and counter productive, you just have to label it evil…
At their Summer Policy Conference this weekend, The Green Party announced that they would ban any and all kickbacks for their MPs, meaning Yoga Corporations, Big Tofu and The Bicycle Industrial Complex will be outraged!
So the drive to make this cheaper means there is no personal contact point to pressure compliance, it opens the data up to being used by more powerful state agents, allows the information to be hacked and leaves the poor out. Combine this Wellington Bureaucrat Fuckwittery together and you have what I believe will be the worst return data for a Census on record.
Both the economy and the environment need each other to survive in a complex society, but if both are now failing and pulling the other down, new paradigms have to be imagined and imagined soon.