On the alleged threats to John Key
The “explanation” by Police Minister Judith Collins for the $800,000 cost blowout in the diplomatic protection squad budget – there have been threats, she says, […]
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On declaring victory in Afghanistan, and getting out
No doubt, Prime Minister John Key will be waiting on his instructions from Washington and Canberra about the final timetable for the withdrawal of NZ […]
On Bin Laden, Petrobras and Jon Stephenson
Illustration by Tim Denee – www.timdenee.com So now that he’s dead, we can bring the troops home now, can’t we? Because the only reason our […]
Scavenger City
Christchurch, and the politics of subsistence
Sleight of Hand
With 90 day trials, the government has broken its decades-long bargain with workers
Left Coasting : Becoming, Herself
An interview with Merrill Garbus of tUnE-yArDs
From The Hood : Learning To Read The PM
Politics is child’s play
The rise of Islamophobia in Europe
As Europe officially separates its anti-Islamic tendencies from racism it becomes more culturally intolerant of Islam
Classics: Diana Wynne Jones R.I.P.
Celebrating the author of Archer’s Goon, Howl’s Moving Castle etc.
The Complicatist : Music for Stoners
Drugs and music, pros and cons, highs and downers
Milestone Movies : The Killer Inside Me (2010) and Coup de Torchon (1981)
Film violence against women, via the ‘dimestore’ novelist Jim Thompson
Images of Womad 2011
Womad is a world unto itself…
* * * * * WEREWOLF ISSUE 21, March 2011 * * * * *
The March 2011 Edition of Werewolf
On the Brash coup attempt, and Sean Penn
Illustration by Tim Denee – www.timdenee.com For now, the attempt at a hostile takeover of the Act Party by former National Party leader Don Brash […]
On the oil lobby’s claims about the Petrobras protests
Illustration by Tim Denee – www.timdenee.com Nice of petroleum industry lobbyist John Pfahlert to offer to correct “the number of media inaccuracies” that he feels […]
On the government’s lead in the polls, and Labour’s response
Illustration by Tim Denee – www.timdenee.com Now that National have gained – according to the latest TV3 poll anyway – a further huge lead in […]
On legal aid, and the definitive account of the Hobbit saga
For a party that made the Nanny State such a big part of its 2008 election campaign, today’s cutbacks to legal aid are merely National’s […]
On the nation’s gift of a plastic waka to Ngati Whatua
Wayne Youle, ‘Often Liked, Occasionally Beaten’, 2004. From the 2006 exhibition Plastic Māori – A Tradition Of Innovation There’s a something wrong with putting the […]
Gordon Campbell on the new rules for Christchurch’s Earthquake Recovery
Illustration by Tim Denee – www.timdenee.com Last year, Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Minister Gerry Brownlee was endowed with god-like powers to over-ride existing law by the […]
Gordon Campbell on Earthquake Welfare and Libya
Illustration by Tim Denee – www.timdenee.com The decision to phase out the government’s support package for Christchurch business seems to have been plucked from the […]
On the intervention in Libya
Click for big version Illustration by Tim Denee – www.timdenee.com Was the intervention in Libya justified – and if so, does that mean the invasion […]
Failure to Launch
The government hopes that voters won’t notice its failure to provide jobs for the young
Away Games
The challenges (and consolations) of trying to play cricket in America
From Wanganui to Washington
Free speech can be hard to defend – with a Bill of Rights OR with a written Constitution
Larceny, Lace and the Legislature
Does the public realise it is funding the racier reading habits of its MPs?
Library Carnage in David Cameron’s Big Society
Observations on free market fundamentalism, by the author of the His Dark Materials series
From The Hood : You Have Been Mooned
The Lunacy of Earthquake Satire
Left Coasting : On Edge
Earthquakes, insurance and building codes – home, and away
Getting Under Sail
Tripping on the Third World, a book excerpt
Classics : The Indian in the Cupboard (1981)
Indians are people, too