Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
4 months out from a General Election and the list of issues that our political class and corporate media are avoiding is just extraordinary…
…responding to cruelty, hate and twisted spiteful inadequacy with compassion, kindness and love will do more to ending this war on terror than any military escalation or civil liberties clamp down ever can.
This vacant optimism merchant banker whose laid back persona struck a chord with middle NZs anti-intellectualism made this country far worse for the poorest and most vulnerable amongst us.
In short, Paris was a complete failure to begin with because it simply did not go anywhere near far enough. Trump pulling out is the least of our concerns.
One of the most corrupt and damaging Politicians from America, Rex Tillerson is coming to New Zealand.
I challenge you to stare the horror of the neoliberal welfare state in the face and recognise it for the abomination that it has become and to demand radical change within our public services.
If Corbyn can do the impossible and pull off one of the great political wins of the 21st Century, he will remind every progressive political Left Party around the planet that an economically populist Left wing agenda can win the people over.
The right wing punditry and biased mainstream media are all attempting to portray this abortion of a budget as ‘left wing’ and ‘family friendly’…
The final Green Party List is out and they have listened to some advice and promoted the young blood up the list as TDB suggested…
Here we go again. On top of the overt bias against Labour from Mediaworks, here’s the NZ Herald with a bullshit story trying to drum up a coup…