On Labour’s tax package (and Rupert Murdoch)
There could hardly have been a better set of Dom-Post headlines yesterday – Fruit and Vege Prices Rocket / Healthy Choices Off The Menu As […]
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On Don Brash’s race gambit (and Hugh Grant’s finest hour)
It must have been a grim moment indeed in the Act Party offices when the Resurrection of Orewa went up on the whiteboard as the […]
On the capital gains tax debate
Illustration by Tim Denee – www.timdenee.com The fact that, at last, one of New Zealand’s major parties has embraced the kind of tax on capital […]
On the bailout in Greece
Illustration by Tim Denee – www.timdenee.com Evidently, the recent attempt by EMA boss Alisdair Thompson to justify the gender pay gap has been just the […]
On National’s neglect of the armed forces
Illustration by Tim Denee – www.timdenee.com Only a National government could get away with the changes in the New Zealand Defence Force now taking place […]
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
Opening the floodgates to tax fraud
Is the most significant change in property law in decades slipping through Parliament virtually unnoticed
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
Letter from America : Sarah, Forever
Outrage at Sarah Palin is gasoline to a forest fire….
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…
From the Hood : The Antipodean Nights’ Entertainments
Like 1001 nights in the Caliphate of Key…
Left Coasting : Doing the Charleston
In which our correspondent shares a multimedia experience of Charleston, South Carolina
Milestone Movies : Nanook of the North (1922)
The birth of documentaries as real life fictions…
The Complicatist : Thinking About Modest Mouse
Desperation has its funnier moments
Talking Sport : Stanley Cup Fever
On and off the field
Cartoon Alley : Manifestos for the Present
Grasping the ‘Contemporary’ in Contemporary Fiction
Cartoon Alley : Tim Bollinger (Including Little Eye)
Tim Bollinger is a Wellington cartoonist with a thirty-year career drawing and writing comics.
* * * * * WEREWOLF ISSUE 23, May 2011 * * * * *
The April 2011 Edition of Werewolf
On the Te Tai Tokerau result
Illustration by Tim Denee – www.timdenee.com In the wake of his victory in the Te Tai Tokerau by-election, Hone Harawira has run strategic rings around […]
On the Christchurch deal, and sexist dinosaurs
Clearly, the deal put on the table for Christchurch yesterday by the government has to be only an opening bid, not a final resolution. Those […]
On our alleged Woody Allen syndrome
Illustration by Tim Denee – www.timdenee.com You’d think, given the near bankrupt state of the state of California, that a guy who has served on […]
On the crisis in Syria
In recent weeks the military crackdown by the Assad regime in Syria has become a refugee problem for neighbouring Turkey, and a media nightmare for […]
On rebuilding Christchurch – and Rupert Murdoch’s beef with the Rugby World Cup
So the long awaited report on land remediation in Christchurch by the consulting engineers Tonkin and Taylor has been delivered to Prime Minister John Key […]
On yesterday’s quakes in Christchurch
In the short term, as CERA chief Roger Sutton claimed yesterday, the collapse of some 50 already-damaged buildings in the Christchurch CBD red zone will […]
On the exchange rate, and faux prudery about politicians
Given all the other problems facing the New Zealand economy, the exchange rate is among the least likely to engender much sympathy among the ordinary […]
On revelations about government borrowing
For years, government borrowing has been treated as a sign of irresponsibility, of a country living beyond its means, of the policies of borrow and […]
On Iran’s increasing paranoia, and its attempts to unplug from the Web
YouTube – This Is Not A Film – Teaser 1 A few months ago, Scoop ran several articles about the Iranian film director Jafar Panahi, […]