Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
If the Ministry of Social Development can’t tell the difference between a safe, legal house and an illegal garage then perhaps they shouldn’t have the words Social or Development in their title.
So the Unitary plan has been released, let the tedious battle of zones and room sizes begin.
I have to be honest, the more Turkey responds harshly to the attempted coup, the more convinced I am that the Coup was either faked or another failed CIA operation.
We have allowed cheap anger and media peddling the worst elements of our nature as entertainment to cloud our judgement and produce spiteful social policy.
For Key to not have been informed of this seems ludicrous right? We have to believe that NZs largest trade partner is angry and threatening large NZ businesses and the PMs Office is informed, but they don’t tell Key?
With the madness of an orange fascist taking over America, BREXIT backlash, human rights abuses across the ditch, the Pacific being ripped apart and desperation growing in our own country, it’s easy to sometimes forget the biggest story of our lifetime.
…take a good hard long look NZ. I know we’ve turned and looked the other way when Australia abuses people who aren’t white, now you can see your teenage son, cousin, grandchild tied into the torture seat, will you continue to be blind?
We need an adult discussion now on cannabis, allowing people like Helen to be called a criminal by the Police and Government is an outrage too far.
The surprise by Hillary supporters that the Left despise Clinton sounds like the same intellectual snobbery that didn’t see Brexit.
The game of vice presidential candidate selection in American Politics is among the single most complex-yet-simple parts of the four yearly quasi-armed-madhouse they call their Presidential election cycle.