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
A tale of two eras, three cities and minimum-wage jobs
Teen moviedom’s greatest black comedy, a quarter of a century later
Ask A Prime Minister
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Celebrating 25 years of hip hop’s best-loved album
The April 2014 Edition of Werewolf
So John Banks has been found guilty of knowingly signing off a fraudulent electoral return. It is an offence that carries a penalty – two […]
A footnote to begin with, to do with the big story about the carbon tax policy unveiled on the weekend by the Greens. If you […]
So much for those – me included – who had viewed the Internet Party as the chaotic, chronically disorganised plaything of Kim Dotcom, and unlikely […]
For those of us who – at the time – argued (vainly) in favour of Labour and the Greens campaigning as a bloc in election […]
So Labour MP Trevor Mallard has got himself in hot water with Speaker of the House David Carter for tweeting that Mr Speaker seemed to […]
So, thanks to our membership of the Five Eyes network, the GCSB spy agency has been supplying information on “persons of interest” in Afghanistan (at […]
If the government has an Achilles heel going into this election it is in housing policy, where affordability has become a huge problem for a […]
Hate to hurt Bill English’s feelings, but yesterday’s Budget looked like a document the Labour Party might have written – and no, that’s not meant […]
Yesterday’s street protests in New Zealand main city centres about the kidnap of 276 girls in Nigeria by the fundamentalist group Boko Haram were a […]
Once again, Winston Peters has failed to ignite on the launch pad. These days you have to go back almost 20 years – to the […]
After weeks of political scandal, National is understandably keen to seize on Budget week as its big chance to refocus election year entirely, around issues […]
If nothing else, the rash of stories about cash-for-access (to the National Party) and cash-for-exit (from New Zealand First) are giving us a clear sense […]
Like King Lear, Winston Peters and his courtiers in New Zealand First have chosen to demand a self-defeating expression of loyalty from prospective NZF candidates. […]
Now that synthetic cannabis is no longer legal, we can look back at our history with these products and see it as driven by New […]
So Justice Minister Judith Collins is going to have four or five days off work from her $268,000 a year (plus perks) job; apparently, she […]
Poor, poor Maurice Williamson. Why is everybody picking on him for simply doing his job….which appears to include ensuring that special treatment is afforded to […]
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