Landslide win to NZ Labour in Mt Roskill by election
Tonight’s remarkable landslide to Wood proves that Labour’s core message of infrastructure investment, affordable housing and empathy have more going for it than National’s vacant aspiration.
Deconstructing Headlines
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
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TDB SPECIAL: 1 year out from 2017 election – the Battlefields
With just 12 months until the 2017 election, where are we at and where will we be going into the 2017 election?
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The Labour+Green is ‘too left wing’ myth, why writing Little off is elitist & Rachel Smalley channels the Ray Miller Fallacy
These right wing media pundits who keep claiming that Labour+Greens are somehow too left wing would’t know a Left wing position if Zombie Marx rose from the grave and bit them!
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Boy in Police cell for 6 nights but we have money for tax cuts?
Key’s ability to promote empty aspiration and vacant optimism while the social statistics groan under his draconian neoliberal welfare state reforms is truly one of the great political swindles of the 21st century.
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Kim Hill destroys Anne Tolley and are National protecting paedophile rings?
What is the National Government hiding and who are they protecting by refusing to hold an independent inquest into historic and current child abuse by State services?
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Rest in Revolution Fidel Castro
A revolutionary hero just turned up at the pearly gates demanding a meeting with the workers – Rest in Revolution Fidel.
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TDB SPECIAL: 1 year out from 2017 election – the Political Parties
With just 12 months until the 2017 election, where are we at and where will we be going into the 2017 election?
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Why we shouldn’t gag Brian Tamaki, Anwar Sahib or the slightly racist guy who looks like Santa
The desire to shut down people and demand they be silent is a pretty dangerous way to delegitimise a Democracy. When people feel they have no voice, they vote like they did in Brexit and with Trump.
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National Party kill off report into child abuse – outrageous denial of justice, who are they protecting?
Who are the National Party protecting and how far up the chain of command did that abuse occur?
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We have a climate denier in the White House just as latest research shows Arctic sea ice collapse
We have a climate denier like Trump in the White House just as the latest research shows us that Arctic sea ice is collapsing when it should be building…