GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Crisis? What Crisis?
Right wing Neoliberal governments love to talk up a crisis, real or imagined, because it helps sell the austerity measures…
Guest Blogs & Sponsored Posts
Guest and sponsored opinion pieces published on The Daily Blog, offering diverse perspectives within clear editorial guidelines.
-
-
Guest Blog: Better Public Media – RNZ and TVNZ management in support of media levy
Notes from the BPM public meeting and AGM – 28 April 2024 Meeting video available here Better Public Media Trust’s…
-
GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Health New Zealand bosses scapegoat their workforce
Since July 2022, with the coming into force of the Pae Ora Act, Health New Zealand (HNZ) is responsible for…
-
GUEST BLOG: Pat O’Dea – In the shadow of Kent State
In the Shadow of Kent State The Charge: Deprivation of rights under the color of law “Laws change. Conscience doesn’t.”…
-
GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Reintroducing Three Strikes Legislation: Why it is not a good idea.
“Three Strikes and You’re Out” laws, based on the idea that criminals would think about the consequences of their crime…
-
GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – The manufactured economic crisis justifying slashing public services
At a time when his Coalition government are using a manufactured economic “crisis” to slash public service jobs in areas…
-
GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – New hospital building trumps ‘Yes Minister’ hospital without patients
Yes Minister is arguably the funniest British political satire sitcom. There were three series between 1980-84. It was followed by…
-
GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – the solution I have come up with to try to keep going as an investigative journalist.
Well, here we are it’s Thursday – the day I said I would share with you the solution I have…
-
GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Finance Minister Willis won’t borrow for tax cuts – yeah right!
Finance Minister Willis says she will not borrow money to pay for tax cuts. But she WILL borrow money to…
-
GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Reflecting on Maximilien Robespierre and other things
Reading an article on Maximilien Robespierre published in the New York Review of Books (23 June 2022) has led me to…