Gordon Campbell on the use of existing drugs to reduce the effects of coronavirus
So now, we’re all getting up to speed with the travel bans, the rigorous handwashing and drying, the social distancing, and the avoidance of public […]
So now, we’re all getting up to speed with the travel bans, the rigorous handwashing and drying, the social distancing, and the avoidance of public […]
Yesterday, US President Donald Trump gave Americans and Europeans a lot of good reasons to panic and/or bristle with outrage. Instead of providing leadership and […]
No doubt, last night’s defeat of abortion law reform provisions that would have created safe zones around abortion clinics will be portrayed, by some, as […]
Safe to say, Vladimir Putin did not expect the response he has received amidships from the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia. Earlier, Russia chose to […]
With obvious apologies to the Simpsons… Here’s my 22 short takes on the 14 Super Tuesday primaries that combined yesterday to produce a common narrative […]
New Zealand First has needed a diversion after weeks of bad coverage over its dodgy handling of donations, but it really, really doesn’t need what […]
The deal that has just been has struck to end the involvement of the US and its NATO allies in Afghanistan bears the usual hallmarks […]
By now, it seems crystal clear that something is deeply amiss with the way that New Zealand political parties solicit, receive and report their funding. […]
Bernie Sanders’ campaign for the Democratic nomination is taking on an air of inevitability, and that likelihood has been met with elation by some people, […]
At this week’s Chinese New Year celebrations, PM Jacinda Ardern was resolutely upbeat that business with China would soon bounce back to normal – better […]
Even paranoids have real enemies. While there has been something delusionary about the way New Zealand First has been living in denial about its donations […]
Last week, Australian PM Scott Morrison extended its ban on foreign visitors from or passing through from mainland China – including Chinese students – for […]
Oh, the burden of being the front-runner. In 2016, when he was still the feisty underdog, Vermont senator Bernie Sanders set his campaign alight by […]
Release the frequencies! If only all political crises could be resolved with such (suspicious) ease. In December, the RNZ board signed off on the idea […]
Come July and under current plans, RNZ Concert as we now know it will have ceased to exist. Instead, it seems that Concert is being […]
As Bloomberg says, the coronavirus shutdown is creating the world’s biggest work-from-home experiment. On the upside, the mortality rate with the current outbreak is lower […]
As New Zealand gears up to begin its $6.8 billion programme of large scale roading projects all around the country, we should be aware of […]
For months, National’s best (and only?) hope of winning Election 2020 has involved keeping New Zealand First down below the 5% MMP threshold, and out […]
Quick quiz to end the week. What deserves the more attention – the death of a US basketball legend, or the end of Palestinian hopes […]
More than once at her post-Cabinet press conference yesterday, PM Jacinda Ardern claimed it would be “very difficult” to evacuate the 53 New Zealanders currently […]
The coronavirus – its official World Health Organisation designation is 2019-nCoV – is believed to have originated as a seafood-to-human transfer, with ground zero for […]
Are National really better political managers than Labour, particularly when it comes to running the economy? For many voters – and the business community in […]
By now, the end game the Republican Senate majority has in mind in their setting of the rules for the impeachment trial of Donald J. […]
If they enter public life, women can expect a type of intense (and contradictory) scrutiny that is rarely applied to their male counterparts. If they […]
Hold the champagne, folks. This week’s China/US deal is more about a change in tone between the world’s two biggest economies – thank goodness they’re […]
Inevitably, children hear a lot about climate change – on the news, on the street, from their friends – and a lot of that news […]
So, evidently, you can get away with murder. It looks as though a further escalation in the ongoing war between Iran and the US has […]
In popular culture, Australia is often portrayed as Western civilisation’s last unspoiled frontier, or as its final refuge from planetary disaster. In Nevil Shute’s best-selling […]
In a year where so many of the highlights came from female musicians, there was one standout album…
While it isn’t surprising that Boris Johnson won the election, he might also have lost the United Kingdom
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