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Robbie Niccol (White Man Behind a Desk) is the host of The Good Citizen's Handbook.

Robbie Nicol: How I learned to become a good citizen

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Robbie Nicol, aka White Man Behind a Desk, has just launched The Citizen’s Handbook, a webseries dedicated to teaching New Zealanders how their country actually works. Here’s five things he learned while making it. It’s probably a failing of our education system that I left high school without knowing how New Zealand’s political system works. … Read more

Patrick Gower: ‘I spent five to six years trying to deny climate change’ (WATCH)

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Interviewed by satirical comedy show White Man Behind a Desk about climate change, politics, and his career as a journalist, Newshub national correspondent Patrick Gower did not hold back. At the start of May, the White Man Behind A Desk team set themselves the task of making a 60 minute comedy show about climate change. … Read more

White Man Behind A Desk quits comedy, pivots to political commentary

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The calculus of supply and demand has driven WMBAD to abandon humour and focus instead on hot takes. Here Robbie Nicol, Finnius Teppett et al pitch their wares White Man Behind A Desk has given up comedy because it is a moral evil. Some people might think we gave up because of our inability to convert … Read more