Labour’s Economic Development spokesperson David Cunliffe made a useful contribution to the ports of Auckland dispute this morning. As Cunliffe says, the proposals that management […]
Sometimes, civil war in Africa can even bring suffering to the well-heeled patrons of the International Festival of the Arts in Wellington. Tinariwen, the Tuareg […]
An interview with new Labour leader, David Shearer
Are journalists prone to being dazzled by numbers?
What should we do about the promotion of unreal image of women ?
How the tertiary sector in New Zealand is being hi-jacked into the service of commerce
Pedro Almodovar’s fresh take on the Hitchcock classic about sex, obsession and second chances
Feline fantasies of fame fortune and bloody vengence
When life is a war game, you need friends to survive
Nothing that resembles natural justice was meted out to the champion Spanish cyclist
Even buzz bands make only tiny little buzzes
One of the tried and true maxims of management is that business hates uncertainty – because, don’t you know, business can’t be done in a […]
The launching of a Citizens Initiated Referendum on the question of the partial asset sales is a useful shot across the bows of the government’s […]
By focussing on the spectre of foreign ownership, the critics of the partial asset sales process have been inadvertedly helping the government, by deflecting attention […]
Well, Mitt Romney won narrowly yesterday in Michigan, the family fiefdom that goes back all the way to when his father George ran General Motors […]
We’ve all become more politically literate the hard way over the last couple of decades. The words “efficient” and “greater efficiency” for instance, has been […]
In its last suicidal spasm this morning, the Australian Labor Party caucus seems certain to choose Julia Gillard to lead it to annihilation at the […]
For many people, Kiwirail’s decision to buy 500 flat top wagons from manufacturers in China instead of building them at Hillside workshops in Dunedin was […]
Iran’s rulers preside over one of the most thuggish, repressive regimes on the planet, but the West’s apparent readiness to go to war over Iran’s […]
At yesterday’s post-Cabinet press conference, Prime Minister John Key indicated that the government is waiting for a Crown law office opinion on Justice Forrest Miller’s […]
The weekend protests about Housing New Zealand’s Tamaki Transformation programme (which aims to relocate residents of 156 state house to make way for a mix […]
Click for big version. Way back at the start of this week, the government was in deep trouble on at least three fronts. First, came […]
Clearly, even when you’ve got a rubber stamp, the rubber can still fall off the stamp. That’s what happened yesterday to the Overseas Investment Office. […]
Chances are, scrapping the system of trial by jury is not the top priority for most New Zealanders. Not many of us woke up this […]
Click for big version. The news that the banks in New Zealand have returned to their pre-global recession levels of profit comes as no real […]
And why New Zealand is no good at either…
An interview with Baron Collins of Mapesbury, recently retired judge from the British Supreme Court
The films of Terrence Malick, from Badlands to Tree of Life
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