What is really feeding the blackmarket in tobacco?
One of the big factors in the rise of the blackmarket in tobacco and more robberies targeting tobacco is the banning of it in prison.
Deconstructing Headlines
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
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The Colin Craig case I can’t comment on much
Nicky Hager and I will be appearing as witnesses to look at Jordan’s track record and whether what Colin Craig had to say about Williams and Slater is true.
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Houses now hit $1m – what else did stupid NZers think would happen?
The property bubble that National have nurtured and built for 8 years has now exploded out to a million dollar nightmare that locks entire generations out of home ownership forever.
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Christchurch National Party leader thinks cluster bombs blowing up children is ‘sweet explosive justice’
The wilful ignorance of National Party members is what is most sickening.
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NZ Health Minister denies snorting fake cocaine
…poor old Jonathan Coleman, possibly the most boring Minister in history, lives such a dull and grey existence, I’m not sure cocaine would make life that much more interesting for him.
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Key throws all NZ workers under a bus to defend his immigration scam
…there is so much that is disgracefully vile in Key’s comments, it’s difficult to know where to begin.
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Hague leaves the Greens more blue – Meanwhile….climate change happening far faster and far more dangerously than predicted
It does not surprise me that activists like Russell Norman and Kevin Hague quit Parliament, the vested political interests that can hide a mass water drinking poisoning are simply too embedded into our political infrastructure to be able to defeat inside the system, but like Norman, Hague leaves a massive hole in the Greens.
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Tricky Winston and his tricky donations
The King seems to be counting his Crowns before he has the Throne.
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Homelessness and the Professor Raymond Miller Fallacy
The homelessness inquiry led by Labour, the Greens and the Maori Party has given painful insight into the real legacy of poverty NZ has been left in under 8 years of National.
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Respects to Nikki Kaye
Kia kaha Nikki.