TDB Daily Reading List 7th May 2025 – Best NZ Left, Independent and Progressive Politics opinion daily reading list
Best NZ Left, Independent and Progressive Political opinion daily reading list
Because so much of the mainstream media is polluted by right wing free market ideologues pushing corporate interests:
TDB daily collates the best NZ Left Wing, Independent and Progressive Political Opinion and includes the best international voices.
Unlike Victoria University’s The Democracy Project, TDB will never be behind a Paywall because we don’t believe in citizens with two classes of information.
DOMESTIC:
RNZ – Cabinet signs off on proposal for Regulatory Standards Bill
The Kākā by Bernard Hickey – NZ economy sliding into wintry deep freeze
Waatea – Cuts to Pay Equity Claims Spark Outrage in Parliament
Newsroom – National grins and bears it as Act notches wins in Parliament
No Right Turn – Government of the 0.3%
Gavin Ellis – The Rock of Consequences
Against The Current – Centrism is still on life support
Gordon Campbell On Surviving Trump’s Trip To La La Land
The Daily Blog – Van Velden goes for Union throat by gutting pay equity thresholds and smashing working women
The Daily Blog – GUEST BLOG EXCLUSIVE: Suzie Dawson – Kiwibank thumb their nose at the Banking Ombudsman
The Daily Blog – Latest Roy Morgan Poll – Right and Left stall
The Daily Blog – Australians and Canadians – the worst people for Trump to attempt to bully
The Daily Blog – GUEST BLOG: Tadhg Stopford – NZ is not poor. We are being plundered.
The Daily Blog – GUEST BLOG: Jackie Foster – Beyond Punishment: A Swedish-Inspired Approach to Corrections Reform in New Zealand
INTERNATIONAL:
The Guardian – Kashmir crisis live: India missile attack kills eight; Pakistan says five Indian fighter jets shot down
Caitlin Johnstone – Yemen War De-Escalates While India Bombs Pakistan
Jacobin – Donald Trump Rules Over a GOP in Disarray
Crikey – The root of the LNP’s ‘women problem’? It either hates women, or doesn’t really care
The Intercept – Cops Are Already Unleashed. Trump Is Telling Them to Run Wild.
Consortium News – US House Stops Bill Imprisoning Boycotters of Israel
