Gordon Campbell on the government’s dubious mandate for its asset sales programme
The decision to proceed with the share float of Meridian Energy is outrageous enough, given that a referendum on the entire asset sales programme is […]
The decision to proceed with the share float of Meridian Energy is outrageous enough, given that a referendum on the entire asset sales programme is […]
Finally, David Cunliffe can begin the task of rebuilding and repositioning the Labour Party that should have occurred at the end of the Helen Clark […]
It goes without saying that Labour supporters don’t like Prime Minister John Key very much. And since it will be Labour Party members, unions and […]
As Prime Minister John Key said at yesterday’s post-Cabinet press conference, the briefings on Syria and the exchanges of views New Zealand has been engaged […]
In Papal elections, the front-runner is often doomed to disappointment, as the weaker factions combine and wear the main contender down. Not always (e.g. Pius […]
Watching on (in horror) as our Australian cousins hold an election
Economist John Quiggin on the state of the Australian economy
As Rudd and Abbott use asylum seekers as a political football…
There’s still plenty of life left in the undead….
The spillover from the war in Syria is taking its toll on Jordan’s fragile institutions
A mind is a terribly wasteful thing to democratize…
Feet don’t fail my words
The August 2013 Edition of Werewolf
All credit to Grey Power and the Greens for getting across the sky high threshold required to trigger a Citizens Initiated Referendum (CIR) on the […]
The last gift from David Shearer to the National Party was his resignation, which has happily diverted the media into weeks of speculation about his […]
As Barack Obama considers the US-led response to the gas attack in Syria, the nuances of that response are getting more, not less difficult. How […]
When you’re languishing in Opposition, the divisions in caucus are evident, the ideological nerve ends all too nakedly exposed. Everyone in the lifeboat has different […]
Some political animals would have grasped for survival at the results of the latest Roy Morgan poll, which showed National losing ground and with the […]
New Zealand has already spent $30 million as a gift to Rio Tinto over the Tiwau Point aluminium smelter – essentially, to buy the government […]
Having tried and failed to sell the GCSB Bill by invoking the bogeyman of terrorism – “PM Justifies Spy Bill : Kiwis trained by al […]
Yesterday, this column compared events in Egypt to the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989 and – spookily – there is now an image to drive […]
The bloody events in Egypt have a familiar ring. The “clearing” of long term encampments convened as a passive protest in defence of democracy. The […]
Does New Zealand – despite our claims to egalitarianism and everyone being equal before the law – treat the people engaged in tax evasion more […]
In John Key, has Big Government and Corporate Power found their most devoted servant?
Does what the government is saying inside the TPP contradict its support for Dotcom’s prosecution?
Why you should have watched the most hated show on television
Some misgivings, as the incandescent bulb heads for the industrial scrapheap
Life on the emotional edge, with the bear father and the mouse child
Why is access to abortion under such fierce attack in the United States?
Maybe Pacific Rim is the best film that Guillermo Del Toro could have made right now
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