Awaiting the finals: Media pundits election forecasts and Winston’s scenario setting
As we await the torturously and unnecessarily delayed final results from last month’s (!) general election and ponder the possible…
Setting the Agenda
Political analysis and commentary shaping the progressive debate in Aotearoa New Zealand, focused on power, policy, and accountability.
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Gaza, and the realities you won’t see in mainstream media
“If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people…
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A game of two halves
With the same shared history of tests behind them and after weeks of build-up, finally the big day came. Close-up…
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Marijuana Media: Police & helicopters; Mushies for meth; CBD in the Cooks; and which National Minister-in-Waiting has cannabis shares?
A former Thames cop recalls theft of cannabis from station lockup, NZ’s first licence granted to cultivate magic mushrooms, it…
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How the nastiest bits of history have a way of reinventing themselves
With the All Blacks Vs Springboks World Rugby Cup final just a few days away its worthwhile remembering the torrid…
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In Wartime truth is so precious
Complied by Malcolm Evans Two weeks after the Hamas breakout assault on Israel on 7 October, Robert Inlakesh, reporting for…
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Colonisation in Palestine
It’s fine to pick holes in someone’s arguments and point out inconsistencies in their logic but it’s another thing to…
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Marijuana Media: Cannabis in Limboland; Cannabidiol over-the-counter; Cook Islands new law coming
This and more on Marijuana Media with Chris Fowlie from NORML and Jonny from bFM Drive – thanks to The…
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Losing the Working Class
I ALWAYS WONDERED what it would take to detach the New Zealand working class from Labour. Not all of the…
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Anti-Palestinian racism still drives western media coverage of Israel’s 75-year war on Gaza
Reporting on the “Middle East conflict” (never reported as it should be as “the Israeli military occupation of Palestine”) has…