Forces aligned against Bridges within National might move against him over holidays
National just needs a simple 51% majority of Caucus for a spill. How many look trust worthy in this picture?
Deconstructing Headlines
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
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Let’s be honest about New Zealand’s ‘Paedophile village’ shall we? WARNING: You won’t like the answer
First of all, why the Christ is this being called a ‘Paedophile village’? It immediately scares the living bejesus out of locals and sets the nation at unease. It suggests a malignant tumour of a community that must be treated with the same mercy as you treat cancer, i.e. none at all.
‘Paedophile village’ is the very worst of the mainstream media selling clickbait.
Why not call it ‘Utter-failure-of-social-policy village’? Because that is truly what this represents.
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668 NZers took their own lives last year – the malaise at the heart of us
The refusal to ever acknowledge that the 30 year neoliberal experiment in society, culture and economics has reaped a bitter harvest of mostly men who are so alienated from themselves that their loneliness and grief swamp the daybreak of the present.
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UPDATE: Wait – what? Simon Bridges expense leaker came from inside National and is now threatening self harm???
This is a ticking time bomb now and the National Party MP either steps down themselves to end this or Bridges pushes ahead, outs the MP himself and then risks that MP hurting themselves.
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Nothing will derail Justice reform like the Woke Left
Fresh from mutilating the free speech debate, martyring Don Brash and promoting crypto-fascists, the Woke Left descended upon the recent Justice Summit with all the nuance of a grenade going off in a kindergarten.
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Reflecting on Greg Boyed’s tragic passing and the mental health of men in their 40s
I think we fail to acknowledge the stresses and depression that grip many men in their 40s because we believe it’s solely a youth issue. Men in their 40s need as much support and help as they can access, unfortunately the run down mental health system in this country is effectively broken.
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Prison reform: Jacinda’s other nuclear free moment – 6 issues that need consideration
The Justice Conference has wrapped up and it is a relief to see that the madness of our prison industrial complex is finally being challenged by some genuine political courage.
This is an area of social policy that I have been passionate about for a very long time. I do believe you judge a society on how they treat their least respected and the way we treat prisoners should be a national scandal.
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The madness of the militarisation of WINZ & Jamie Mako
Nothing seems to sum up the counter productive nature of our neoliberal welfare system quite as powerfully as the madness of this case…
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Should NZ & Canada forge a new leadership for the West?
Is it time for Jacinda and Trudeau to step up?
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Freezing MP salaries, 1800 new cops and new major infrastructure body – new Government take control of narrative
The lack of traction over the time Jacinda has been away has been overcome within weeks of her being back. She is a phenomenon and if National are serious about beating her, they best not underestimate her ability to pacify their voting block while appealing to her own.