On the World Cup, and the media’s buy-in to the national mood of elation
Well, New Zealand made a splash in the Fifa World Cup coverage yesterday – and I don’t mean via the draw with Italy. No, the […]
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On our costly and futile efforts in Afghanistan
Routinely, we are told that the New Zealand Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Afghanistan’s Bamiyan province has been doing a great job – and maybe […]
Gordon Campbell on the foreshore and seabed deal, and Gaza blockade
By Gordon Campbell The Maori Party seems to have won few immediate and tangible benefits from its long awaited deal on the foreshore and seabed […]
On a solution for the Ministerial spending scandal, and for child poverty
The litmus test in the Ministerial expenses scandal is what would happen to an ordinary employee who repeatedly misused the company or departmental credit card […]
On the Green Party conference
The Greens held their party conference last weekend – the first for some years not dominated by an actual or pending leadership change. This time, […]
On the rugby apology to Maori, the Gaza blockade and lying about Kiwibank
Isn’t there something truly weird about any Maori Party request to government for an apology over the exclusion of Maori players from tours to apartheid-era […]
On the need for New Zealand to condemn the Gaza blockade
The Israeli attack on the Turkish aid convoy to Gaza, and its subsequent slaughter of the civilians on board is being condemned around the world. […]
Humbler Days On Hobson St : TVNZ in Hard Times
An interview with Rick Ellis, CEO of Television New Zealand
When Regimes and Corporations Take Aim at Artists
Chevron Oil and the mullahs in Teheran reveal just how much they have in common
Calling out the catcallers
Everybody loses when it comes to the street harassment of women
Tie Me Salary Cap Down, Sport
Should there be any restraint of trade rules when it comes to sport?
Classics : Mrs Frisby and The Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O’Brien ( 1971)
Can genetically modified animals ever rejoin the natural world?
Goodbye to the Iron Buffalo
The strange case of railroad photographer O. Winston Link
From The Hood : Some more of me polemics
The author is reincarnated into the body of a free verse poet
Milestone Movies : The House is Black (1962)
Iran’s cinema of hope, amid states of repressio
The Complicatist : Fear of Trains
Has anyone ever written a bad song about trains?
* * * * * WEREWOLF ISSUE 11, MAY 2010 * * * * *
The April 2010 edition of Werewolf
On the international aid flotilla now approaching Gaza
Some days ago, a flotilla of nine ships left a port in Turkey bound for the Gaza enclave, laden with medical and building supplies and […]
On the plans to sell state assets
At yesterday’s post-Cabinet press conference Prime Minister John Key said that work ‘had not yet begun’ on deciding which state assets – if any – […]
On the trade-offs in the Budget
Audio + Images: Budget Lockup Press Conference Raising the level of GST – which will hit those on low incomes the hardest – and offering […]
On John Key’s shifting rationales for tax cuts (& leaky homes)
[Leaky homes below] See: PM’s Presser Audio & Report – Leaky Home Loan Scheme When asked by Scoop at yesterday’s post-Cabinet press conference to name […]
On Sir Peter Gluckman, and the government’s science package for business
So far, at least two isotopes of the government’s chief science advisor Sir Peter Gluckman have been isolated, and identified. The commonly observed variant – […]
On Gordon Brown’s exit, and the SAS role in defending women’s oppression in Afghanistan
Now that Gordon Brown has resigned, the way is a little bit clearer for Nick Clegg to make a deal with Labour – but only […]
On the ongoing Peter Saunders saga, and the UK election
Now that everyone has had a good laugh at Social Development Minister Paula Bennett for mixing up which Peter Saunders she had actually appointed to […]
On CEO pay, and the calls to hike up interest rates
Lets get this straight. Paying schoolteachers is said to be a very very bad thing to do as we emerge from the recession – but […]
On privatizing water, and the SAS in Afghanistan
Local Government Minister Rodney Hide continues to pursue his vocation in life, of turning public assets into profit centres for the private sector. The amendment […]
Closing The Books on Libraries
The current climate in local government, and the fate of libraries
Making the Final Call
The science of determining when life is over
Rodney Hide’s Wet, Hot Colorado Dream
How the Supercity will ratchet down spending on public services
Musings on Beauty
Feeling bad about your beautiful body