Labour send in big bad Sheriff Nash to bash the filthy gangs
You know when Labour are close to power, because they start stealing all of National’s get tuff on crime dog whistles.
Deconstructing Headlines
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
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At least Trump built the Autobahn – why meeting Unions and stopping TPPA doesn’t mean Donald’s not a fascist
Look at the mutant cavalcade of vicious banker and elite arseholes he’s appointed to his inner circle. There’s no need to ‘drain the swamp’ when all the monsters are in his Cabinet.
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Why Little is attacking MANA + Maori Party and why NZ First is an existential threat to independent Maori political voice
Boom, and in rolls Andrew Little with a beat down on Maori that would make the LAPD look liberal.
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Why Gareth Morgan is the only game in town when it comes to Political Tino Rangatiratanga for Maori
Imagine a country that was mature enough to make symbolic and real the relationship the Treaty has promised since its signing. The day we can commit to such a vision is the day NZ stops being a country and matures enough to be a Nation.
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Dear Progressive NZ voters – in 2017 you can either have a changed Government or a change of Government – you can’t have both
I think there needs to be a very clear understanding about the 2017 election for progressive voters.
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TDB Summer Election Special: Understanding Maori Party + MANA movement in 2017
The Maori Party and MANA Movement leadership have a lot to work on and it should be done already.
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The two factors that are pausing English’s hand on announcing election date
Bill English is an incredibly savvy and intelligent strategist and the Left should not underestimate him.
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The Machiavellian horror of Trump’s ‘American carnage’
Historians will look at Trump’s blistering venom of a speech as a turning point in history. The naked rage of perceived lost privilege mixed with neoliberal economic dislocation has given Trump a platform to spin his violent fantasy of America…
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Huge launch of Jacinda Ardern’s Mt Albert by-election campaign asks hard questions about what the bloody hell the Greens are playing at
The claim that the by election campaign will somehow be a beautiful women’s moment of enlightenment where politics can be discussed in a respectful way without the destructive ego of the Brosocialists while everyone gets a hug and a gold star for participating just seems so woefully optimistic.
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The political death of Cassandra Fairbanks, why social media and not Russian hacking elected Trump and how twitter maims the Left
People didn’t elect Trump for stable Government, they voted him into destroy, damage and hate all the cultural insecurities & fears they feel from a perceived loss of privilege. This cultural dislocation is compounded by free market neoliberal globalisation that saw 50% of Union families vote for Trump.