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 […]
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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
Classics : Dumbo (1941)
… until you seen an elephant fly
From The Hood : Faster Liberals, Kill! Kill!
Suddenly the Government’s strategy makes sens
Left Coasting : Family Fight
Harman vs Winograd : the Democratic Party at war, with itself
Milestone Movies : The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978)
Hong Kong’s great gift to cinema
Travelling Light : Monaco, mano-a-mano
In backgammon, they take no prisoners
The Complicatist : Bascom Lamar Lunsford and the mongrel nature of folk music
Or, why your taste in music totally sucks
Cartoon Alley: Reviews and commentary #6… by Leo Hupert
Unknown Soldier, The Imposter, Saurian Era & Luna Park
Cartoon Alley: Reviews and commentary #7… by Tim Bollinger
Utopia Now Vol. 1
* * * * * WEREWOLF ISSUE 10, APRIL 2010 * * * * *
Werewolf issue 10
On banning 18-19 year olds from bars (& cigarette tax)
Girl Talk. See: Gordon Campbell IV’s Girl Talk, About Copyright In what passes for a public debate here about the flow of young New Zealanders […]
On RWC fever, and Obama’s Supreme Court choice
RNZ this morning carried the news that “new research” now shows that the Rugby World Cup would add an estimated $535 million to the nation’s […]
On our unhealthy fixation with Gallipoli
Image: Selwyn Manning: ANZAC Day 2008 Dawns in NZ At the post-Cabinet press conference last Monday, Prime Minister John Key had to field a range […]
On Paula Bennett’s decidedly strange welfare panel
Last week when Social Development Minister Paula Bennett named the working group on welfare reform, she also cited in a footnote two experts that the […]
On getting a fair deal for our oil and mining resources
As the deadline approaches for public submissions on the government’s plans to open up sensitive conservation areas to mining, the likely economic returns to New […]
Gordon Campbell On Welfare Insurance
The new working group on welfare reform to be headed by former Commerce Commission head Paula Rebstock will be looking at schemes of unemployment insurance […]
On New Zealand's Anti-Nuclear Posturing
Click for big version New Zealand’s national identity is very much based on our sense of virtuous purity – and the feeling that we can […]
On the Whanau Ora scheme
At the unveiling of Whanau Ora, the government scrapped a key feature that its expert Task Force had deemed to be ‘pivotal’ – namely, that […]
On the child abuse scandal within the Catholic Church
At the school I attended as a child, any and all queries by parents about the standard of teaching or the content of the syllabus […]
Do the Right Thing
Everywhere else, countries recognise the need to exempt food from GST
Hating Obama, Scorning Rudd
Why have they become so unpopular so quickly ?
Womad under pressure
Can the world music festival survive in its current format and location?
Loss Leader
Is Doug McKay really the leader that Auckland needs?
Classics: Harriet the Spy (1964) by Louise Fitzhugh
Looking out for number one
Left Coasting: Una casa dividida
Searching for common ground among California’s Latino/Chicano/Mexicano voters