Gordon Campbell: Foreshore and Seabed deals & dealing with Iran
Click to enlarge So today, the government formally agrees to dump the foreshore and seabed legislation. On one level, this means karma retribution for National, […]
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Cutbacks to Central (and Local) Government Spending
As sure as night follows day, when farmer incomes come under pressure, Federated Farmers want to cut welfare – and slash anything else they think […]
Anne Tolley’s 19th century approach to education
Remember National’s election promise to return New Zealand to the top half of the OECD tables? In government, its moves in education seem motivated more […]
Managing the Press Gallery, and Afghanistan
Click for big version As a free fire exercise in which anything at all can be raised, the Prime Minister’s post Cabinet press conference should […]
The RWC resolution, and ACC changes
So the outcome of the Rugby World Cup fiasco is a reversion to sanity – one bid only, involving Maori Television, TVNZ and TV3. In […]
The Rugby World Cup bids
There seem to be two Rugby World Cups taking place in 2011. One is an absolutely splendid affair being overseen by RWC Minister Murray McCully […]
Tim Groser’s battle with the Wall Street Journal, and the Obama Peace Prize
Ouch. The main media byproduct of the recent Tim Groser march on Washington seems to have been this nasty editorial in the Wall Street Journal […]
Changing the law on rape
Can rape victims get a better deal?
The Media, Celebrities and Privacy
An interview with Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe
Is Test Cricket On the Ropes?
The long version of the great game faces an uncertain future
How Green Is Your Landlord ?
Convincing landlords to invest in energy savings – when tenants reap the benefits – is difficult
The Complicatist: When Good Hymns Are Sung By Bad People
That song from Night of the Hunter
Looking After Our Patch
Crush and crate’ em policies increase the power of gangs
Iran: Paranoid, But With Real Enemies
Iran faces up to its inner demons and its foreign foes
Living Sensibly with Drugs
Portugal makes the de-criminalisation of drugs work
Badger’s Parting Gifts (1984) by Susan Varley
Death in children’s stories
Left Coasting: The Door That Swings Both Ways
California fails to cope with its crowded prisons
Travelling Light: Doing the Manhattan Walk of Death
On foot, and fearless in New York City
From the Hood : Bullet Points Will Solve All My Structure Problems
Bullet Points Will Solve All My Structure Problems
Talking Sport: Close, But No Cigar
Spare a thought for the guy who comes in second
Universal Television
Mapping the TV cosmos
Reviews, Commentary etc… A few comics from New Caledonia
A few comics from New Caledonia by Tim Bollinger Returning from a comic book forum in Noumea wonderfully hosted by the good people at CREIPAC […]
* * * * * WEREWOLF ISSUE 3, AUGUST 2009 * * * * *
> The law change on provocation – will it make gays and women any safer? Afghanistan – are the SAS being sent on a doomed […]
A Few Extra Reasons Why The Boscawen Bill Should Be Dumped
Interesting that Act MP John Boscawen wants to introduce legislation that will try to re-define what is or isn’t a permitted means, and level, of […]
The Referendum About Hitting Kids
Diversion, as every parent knows, is a useful ploy in good parenting. You divert the angry child’s attention away – with a game, or another […]
Rodney Hide’s Supercity ultimatum to the Government
Click to enlarge Image from: Scoop Satire: Super-City Map As Rodney Hide crawls out onto the ledge and threatens to resign all of his ministerial […]
Gordon Campbell: Deliberate defeat in Afghanistan
Defence Minister Wayne Mapp’s main contribution to the House debate yesterday on Afghanistan was that New Zealand would want to see an improvement in the […]
Gordon Campbell On The Afghan Marital Rape Law
New Zealand has a special interest in the rape law that Hamid Karzai has reportedly sneaked into effect only days before the Afghan election on […]
Our cozying up to the military regime in Burma
If the military regime in Fiji deserves smart sanctions against its officials, relatives, supporters and sports teams – and it does – then you’d think […]
The SAS going Dutch – or Canadian – in Afghanistan
Now that our SAS troops are heading back into combat in Afghanistan the key question becomes – who are they going to replace? The answer […]