Welcome Back, Pluto
Science may be, should be, rethinking its decision to kick Pluto out of the planetary club
Science may be, should be, rethinking its decision to kick Pluto out of the planetary club
Youth, art and radical politics in the Olivier Assayas film After May
Its lonely at the top, but the view is grand
Good times, beer bikes and historo-enlightenment in the heart of Hungary
From the Righteous Brothers to Yelawolf and beyond…
The June 2014 Edition of Werewolf
Image by Neetflux For all the talk yesterday from Prime Minister John Key about National being transparent about its electorate deals in Epsom and Ohariu, […]
One of the selling points in New Zealand’s campaign for a temporary seat on the Security Council is that we have a pluckily independent voice […]
The refusal by Prime Minister John Key to issue a personal apology to Tania Billingsley has been accompanied by an array of excuses. Yes, there […]
So one hand of the state – the Independent Police Conduct Authority – has now washed the hands of its brother agencies, and declared that […]
Back in 2010 at least, the email trail recently released to David Fisher of the NZ Herald shows that the Immigration Service had found an […]
When people systematically alter how being statistics are recorded in order to gain personal and organisational advantage, that’s usually when the Police get called in. […]
As negotiators gather in Ottawa this week for the latest round of talks on the Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal, the opposition to (a) the […]
Indonesia is holding presidential elections later today. As usual, New Zealand seems completely uninterested in what happens in Indonesia – even though our huge neighbor […]
So the extradition hearing for Kim Dotcom has been delayed until next February. In another long running drama, a final deal on the Trans Pacific […]
Image by Neetflux Terrific. I’m glad that Murray McCully is well and truly determined to get to the bottom of who screwed up the Malaysian […]
Blame the officials. Go to ground. Looks like standard operational procedure for Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully, this time with respect to Malaysia over the […]
Helen Clark’s informal campaign to succeed Ban Ki-Moon as UN Secretary-General is moving into a higher gear. Her June 11 interview on BBC’s Hard Talk […]
The latest 3 News poll results has the combined Labour/Green bloc struggling at exactly 40%, still almost ten points behind National’s tally. (The poll recorded […]
Yes, the jailing of the three Al Jazeera journalists is an outrage and the judicial process that convicted them was a farce. Reportedly the “evidence” […]
The dancing-at-a-distance relationship between National and Colin Craig’s Conservative Party has just entered a new phase with the announcement that Craig will be contesting the […]
Who knew that David Cunliffe’s speech to last year’s Labour Party conference was not a new beginning, but the last gasp of the credible phase […]
Labour’s compulsory Kiwisaver plan is its latest love letter to Winston Peters. First came the empty railing against immigration, now the idea of compulsory savings […]
Incredibly, the ISIS Sunni rebels who are currently butchering their way through northern Iraq are being financed by Saudi Arabia – supposedly a Western ally […]
Back when they were trying to justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration conjured up an entirely fictitious link between al-Qaeda and the […]
The Green Party moves to the political centre… and vice versa
David Robie’s lifelong commitment to media coverage of the Asia Pacific region
Why Opting Out Isn’t An Option
Gareth Edwards reboots Godzilla – the monster that’s all metaphor.
A conversation with Deena Mohamed, author of the Qahera superhero comic strip
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