Lies, Damn Lies and Opinion Polls
Are journalists prone to being dazzled by numbers?
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Feeling Bad About Ourselves
What should we do about the promotion of unreal image of women ?
Marketing the Mind
How the tertiary sector in New Zealand is being hi-jacked into the service of commerce
Pedro Does Vertigo
Pedro Almodovar’s fresh take on the Hitchcock classic about sex, obsession and second chances
Why State Capitalism Is Beating The Free Market
And why New Zealand is no good at either…
Worlds At A Distance
In literature, do the avant-garde and the whimsical serve the same function?
Why MMP Is Still The Best Option
MMP has flaws, but the alternatives to the current voting system are much worse
Amnesty International, After 9/11
AI’s director Salil Shetty, and the threats to human rights posed by Western governments…
100% Pure Business Opportunities
Is DOC’s zeal for commercial ventures with the private sector an environmental hazard ?
The Dissing of David Foster Wallace
Dealing in the tics of sincerity…
Evil Genius Finds Virtue in Vinyl
And lo, a new record shop is born
Ten Myths About Asset Sales
Selling down the public’s stake in energy companies and Air NZ makes little sense, socially or economically
Too Old To Vote?
As the population ages, will senile voters decide the election outcome in future?
Imagining War
The ethical and stylistic issues in using real-life war zones as a basis for contemporary fiction
Train Wreck at Kiwirail
Behind the job losses at Hillside and Woburn…
The case for corporate reform
An interview with business analyst Rod Oram
Living With the Cost of Prolonging Life
The health system is facing some important life and death decisions
Cartoon Alley : Tintin in Wellywood
In anticipation of Steven Spielberg’s The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of Unicorn due December 2011
Frank Gehry and the Lost Vision for Te Papa
An interview with Wellington architect Ian Athfield about the other design for our national museum
Taxi Driver at 35
In the 1970s, New York (and Martin Scorsese) were a lot sleazier and scarier…
Farming’s Big Day Out
At Mystery Creek, agri-business comes out to play…
Cartoon Alley : Manifestos for the Present
Grasping the ‘Contemporary’ in Contemporary Fiction
Funding The National Religion
Keeping score with the cost of the Rugby World Cup
Fighting For Obama
The art (and business) of cajoling others to fight America’s battles
Letter from America : It’s Alllivvveee…..
Is the media rising up from its much heralded grave?
Left Coasting : At War With Amazon.Com
Should the e-commerce giants be made to collect and pay far more taxes on what they sell ?
Warming To The Idea
A (truncated) interview with climate change guru Dr. James Hansen
Superhero Narratives and Social Values
The role of globalisation and the avant–garde in Grant Morrison’s Batman
Scavenger City
Christchurch, and the politics of subsistence
The rise of Islamophobia in Europe
As Europe officially separates its anti-Islamic tendencies from racism it becomes more culturally intolerant of Islam