Sean Plunket’s Working Group with Bomber Bradbury & Damien Grant: This week – Rodger Douglas legacy, Fireworks & Identity Politics & Cops carrying guns
It’s not odd that Corrections is trying to ascertain how many prisoners might become terrorists because of the oppressive and violent environment they create, what is odd is that they aren’t looking at how their environment creates that extremism nor that they seem to have learnt anything about the inadequacy of their so called ‘intelligence’ abilities.
As the paywall gets closer and closer at the NZ Herald, we all hope there are things that go behind the pay wall and things that stay outside it.
This week:
Jordan Peterson vs climate change
The Privacy Commissioner vs The Spinoff
CGT vs greed
Fran is a member of the New Zealand China council and has all her fingers in the sour cream.
‘Several people criticised the campaign on social media’ – the moment when journalism died folks
Duncan Garner was scrambling for answers with his fistful of papers when Chloe Swarbrick asked him what study he was referring to.
No one could expect Jacinda Ardern to be able to fix 9 years of grotesque public service underfunding in just a year. The damage to the wider society National’s short sighted social policies hit Māori harder than most and Jacinda promised a hope that pain would not only pass but reverse trend.
Huawei, this clumsy ham fisted attempt to make us want 5G so that we can pointlessly watch movies on our phones while we walk around in urban centres by using rugby metaphors just won’t do!
On closer inspection, the research from the Journal of the American Medical Association doesn’t paint the bleak picture of doom that Duncan Garner seems to think it does…