The War on News: Trump’s Iran Escalation, Tamaki’s Military Rant & Drug Policy Fail
Trump escalates, Brian Tamaki rants about makeup, and drug use soars while Ministers call it success. This is the War on News.
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The Free-market, Hyper-individualism… and a Culture of Cruelty?
A certain amount of callousness; disdain; and outright hatred must replace compassion, egalitarianism, and a sense of community cohesion if the neo-liberal version of “society” is to operate successfully.
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The Legacy of a Dismantled Prime Minister – Revisited
. . Following John Key’s sudden (and largely unexplained) resignation on 5 December 2016, I wrote a piece lamenting that…
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The Many Mendacities of Mr Bridges – The ‘Claytons’ Apology
When National’s Simon Bridges, fronted up on Radio NZ on 5 June, he apparently apologised for his role in the unjust evictions of 300 state house tenants for meth-testing results that have been shown by Chief Science Advisor, Sir Peter Gluckman, as bogus.
Bridges said;
“I’m sorry that the advice we got was wrong and has made this situation what it is.”
Except – it’s not an apology for the wrongful evictions at all. It’s a lamentation that “the advice we got was wrong”.
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“Spinning” in a post-truth era
Two recent media stories, on two utterly disparate issues, were clear examples of how tax-payer funded media “spin doctors” were guiding government ministers to respond to questions in a certain way.