On Trevor Mallard’s big day, and the Film Commission’s new low budget film scheme
Normally, Trevor Mallard is not renowned for his subtlety, yet his stealth attack on Education Minister yesterday in the House was a stone classic. First, […]
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On the looming elections in Iraq
Early next month, Iraq is due to hold an election. One of the ironic outcomes of the US/UK led invasion in March 2003 has been […]
On the problems in making the tax cuts equation stack up
Would scrapping the depreciation rules on rental residential property really deliver the $1.6 billion promised? That $1.6 billion sits on one side of the ledger […]
On John Key’s agenda for the nation
Compensate is such a slippery word. If you set out to make the elite squad in team A immensely better off with money taken from […]
On why free trade with the US is more Monty Python than Holy Grail
Perhaps we can all quietly sign a pact to forego comparing a free trade deal with the US to the quest for the Holy Grail. […]
On the government’s clueless response to unemployment and why Mike Moore shouldn’t go to Washington
Well, we’re now seeing some of the fruits of small government, and having government butt out of our lives. Unemployment rose to 7.3 % during […]
Union-bashing and the dispute over national standards
Well, it hasn’t taken long for John Key to bring the old scare word ‘unions’ – into the dispute over national standards. Yesirree, this flap […]
Shaping Up To Fight
Will the new White Paper on Defence raise the chances of us getting involved in other peoples’ wars?
The Real Three Strikes: Mad, Sad and Bad
Using common sense would be a welcome change for our criminal justice system …
Living by the Code
The mixed blessings of commercial gene testing
Decline and Fall
Hebron’s spiral of despair
Classics: The Borrowers (1952) by Mary Norton
Small people with big problems
From The Hood: Think Crimes
Lyndon Hood installs a crime-prevention camera in the Justice Minister’s mind.
Talking Sport: Rafa in the Twilight Zone
Why is tennis treating its top players as utterly disposable?
Left Coasting : Plug and play democracy
Californian voters learn to live with constitutional gridlock
The Complicatist: From Animal Collective to Bobby Conn
Indie rock is for wimps, and we’re OK about that
The Jesus Cringe
The etiquette of fessing up to being Christian + a reply to reader feedback from the author
Welcome to the Jobless Recovery
GDP growth without jobs is no recovery at all
* * * * * WEREWOLF ISSUE 7, DECEMBER 2009 * * * * *
The second December edition of Werewolf published on December 23st, 2009
Reviews and commentary #3… Tim Bollinger and Leo Hupert
My Absolute Favourite Comic At The Moment by Tim Bollinger ‘Lucky Aki in the Stone Age’, by Barry Linton Auckland comic writer/artist Barry Linton is […]
Gordon Campbell on the government's tolerance of white collar crime
This government takes a crush ’em and crate ’em approach to crime – unless that is, the offender happens to be wearing a tie. In […]
Gordon Campbell on the SAS in Kabul, and the media’s duty to report on their actions
The saga of media coverage of the SAS in Afghanistan took another turn on the weekend with National MP Eric Roy bizarrely blaming Helen Clark […]
On the ‘Three Strikes’ Policy and the SAS in Kabul
Click to enlarge In the Book of Leviticus, God takes a no nonsense, zero tolerance approach to offending. Curse your parents, or let your child […]
On the monarchy, and Keith Locke’s mechanism for replacing it
Click for big version Prince William And The Governor General Anand Satyanand. Photography by Woolf – www.woolf.co.nz Flexibility is an essential feature of the modern […]
On whether people should be able to burn the flag at Anzac Day
Click to enlarge Any masochist who wants to feel depressed about the state of the New Zealand judiciary needs only to turn to Justice Terence […]
On how The Lovely Bones affects the credibility of Peter Jackson’s Film Commission review, and on other bombs
Click for big version More Images from The Lovely Bones premiere in Wellington. Co-incidentally, just as Arts Minister Chris Finlayson readies himself to release Peter […]
Owning Upwards
How workers in Argentina have taken over failing firms, and turned them around
Classics : Go Dog.Go ! ( 1961) by P.D. Eastman
The Red Scare of the 1950s helped create this hymn to perpetual motion.
The Complicatist : from Sun Ra to Lightning Bolt
Brian Chippendale of Lightning Bolt talks about the original urban spaceman
Best of Werewolf 2009
A collection of the best of Werewolf 2009