Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
If the Greens could perhaps stop self mutilating the launch of their new candidate and if Labour could possibly stop picking fights with one of NZs most respected TV Journalists, Professor Richard Dawkins is on the phone…
In a political world devoid of values, it’s good to see Labour Party candidate for the Mt Roskill by-election, Michael Wood, letting a National Party stooge know in no uncertain terms that slagging off his wife is NOT on the agenda…
The one word that almost every political pundit in America has not uttered as they scramble to explain their ignorance is ‘class’.
You let Helen Kelly die as a criminal. You let Paul Holmes die as a criminal. You let Martin Crow die as a criminal.
All so you could refuse to take cannabis reform seriously.
The Alt-Right who have given Trump so much power believe that climate change is some sort of socialist scam to help create a UN one world Government blah blah blah.
One, and let’s be honest it really is all that we can cling to, one thing that is good to have come out of the Trump tragedy is that there is a clear halt now in America to free market corporate globalisation.
As pundits and the mainstream media scramble to decipher the political earthquake that has erupted with the win of Trump, here are the winers, losers and what went wrong as I reckon it.
We tell our children not to be bullies, not to be racist and not to be sexist. Tonight a man who has breached every standard of civility will win the Presidency of the United States. We are a lesser civilisation today.
Spending $300million on trying to clean up the mess they’ve created in Housing isn’t a solution, it’s just another sign of total failure.
Judith Collins could rule on this right now, but she won’t because she knows that NZers love punishment over justice. Our system is corrupt and racist and we like it that way because it mostly benefits white people. Letting a Maori woman out early to die with her whanau is just not an option.