On the EQC’s funding woes, and a peak oil update
So, it seems, the Greens were right all along – a special levy to fund the costs involved with the Christchurch earthquake still makes good […]
So, it seems, the Greens were right all along – a special levy to fund the costs involved with the Christchurch earthquake still makes good […]
[See below for The West Memphis Three aftermath] Imagine if there was a party drug known to kill a number of teenagers around the world […]
Illustration by Tim Denee – www.timdenee.com Silvio Berlusconi really needs Italy to win the Rugby World Cup, or an equivalent miracle. While he faces prosecution […]
The fighters in western Libya who captured the supply line towns on the way into Tripoli and made the final push into the capital do […]
Good news stories are few and far between, and the release from jail of the West Memphis Three is definitely one of those moments to […]
The call this morning by the Obama administration for Bashir al-Assad to leave office in Syria, and the US imposition of sanctions has been echoed […]
Between early September and late October, New Zealand will be hosting teams from 19 countries for the Rugby World Cup. This column will try to […]
What is it about National’s plans for welfare reform and natural disasters? On the same day in February that the Welfare Working Group released its […]
Probably, some will regard the height restriction of seven stories for the rebuild of Christchurch’s central city area as being unnecessarily arbitrary and uniform, and […]
So far, reaction to the riots in Britain has moved beyond the initial phase of surprise and bewilderment – goodness, the New York Times wondered, […]
Illustration by Tim Denee – www.timdenee.com Stock markets jittery, the price of gold heading through the roof… the vandalising of the US economy by the […]
Behind the job losses at Hillside and Woburn…
Tracing one likely effect of voluntary student membership
An interview Professor Leila Ahmed of Harvard Divinity School
Bela Tarr’s The Turin Horse, and the controversy about slow cinema
California’s latest attempt to escape from its low tax / no revenue straightjacket
The art of spying, dying and versifying
The Complicatist : Love and Mining Disasters
Neil Gaiman’s brand of horror lite is aimed at parents, as much as kids
The June / July 2011 Edition of Werewolf
If nothing else, Barack Obama’s tactics during the debt ceiling crisis have clarified how he plans to run for President next year: not as a […]
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