TDB Summer Election Special: When will the media ask hard questions about why John Key resigned?
The official story as to why John Key, one of NZs most popular Prime Minister’s ever, just decided to quit is as follows…
Deconstructing Headlines
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
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2016 – good riddance to bad rubbish
In 2016 we don’t count our blessings for comfort, instead we recognise how many others are suffering far worse than we are. It’s not hope that we feel as we close our weary eyes at days end, it’s an exhausted gratitude that we aren’t queuing for a cheaply wrapped gift or being bombed or being driven from our homes.
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After stuff.co.nz finished clapping themselves on the back for Prison reform story, they go right back to prison clickbait bullshit
Corporate Mainstream media is part of the problem of our out of control Prison Empire, it isn’t the solution to it.
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So is this day 3 or 4 of Israel’s war against us? Does anyone know yet? Where the hell is Bill English?
There should be a unified call from the Opposition to expel the Israeli embassy for their threat if Bill English won’t front.
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Dear Israel – take your blood drenched embassy with you
What Israel are doing to the Palestinian people is the great crime of our collective generation. The things they do every day to humiliate, imprison, mutilate and torture the Palestinian people in an economic, cultural and social manner is an abomination.
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IT’S A XMAS MIRACLE! Apartheid Israel recalls it’s Ambassador from NZ!
Oh what a wonderful gift in a year torn asunder by hate and pain, after NZ pushed for a UN vote against the illegal occupation of Palestine, Apartheid Israel has thrown a temper tantrum and recalled their ambassador from New Zealand!
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Christmas 2016 – it’s a broken and cold Hallelujah
There is nothing as eye opening as seeing the ocean of desperation from fellow New Zealanders sleeping overnight on the street in the fervent hope of some basic gifts.
As I pass them, I think, ‘there but for the grace of God go I’.
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Memorandum of Understanding up in flames as Green ambition sinks Mt Albert byelection – why Gareth Morgan must run
Oh for the love of Christ, the Greens have torn up the Memorandum of Understanding and are running in the Mt Albert by-election.
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New Zealand Political Awards 2016
2016 was the year of Fake News. It saw neoliberal globalisation rejected by major liberal democracies with the Brexit vote and win of Donald Trump. Science and facts were thrown out with the bathwater and the baby as voters who have been failed by the promise of free market globalisation turned on every elite they could hurt.
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LATEST POLL SHOCK: National plummet to 45% Labour-Green jump to 43%
National have suffered a shock drop of 4.5% and Labour-Greens have jumped up 5.5% in the latest Roy Morgan Poll…