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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 […]
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> 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 […]
Bill English’s Homing Instincts, for the Money
Clearly, the first item on the review of ministerial expenses is going to be to create a clear definition of what constitutes ‘home’ – because […]
The Business of Cruelty
Why does New Zealand treat animals so badly?
Provocation: A Dispassionate Look
After Weatherston and Ambach – will the law change make people any safer?
The Pope of Parliament
Dr Lockwood Smith talks about trying to make the House a better place
SOS Afghanistan – Are the SAS on a doomed mission?
An interview with US Afghanistan expert Thomas Johnson
Left Coasting: Home Discomforts in Berkeley
Away from home among the homeless in Berkeley California
Classics : Goodnight Moon (1947)
Margaret Wise Brown: The tragic revolutionary who wrote the children’s classic
The Complicatist: Johnny Devlin
Johnny Devlin and the spirit of the 50s
From the Hood : Sorry, No Article This Week
Lyndon Hood – discretely proffers a cautionary tale
Talking Sport : Tour de France
Can the Tour de France teach us how to run the Rugby World Cup?
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Werewolf issue 2, June 2009
Cartoon Alley: Anthony Behrens
Anthony Behrens is a Palmerston North–based graphic designer. He says : ‘I worked in newspapers for 15 years as a designer/illustrator. Before that I illustrated […]
Cartoon Alley: Mark O’Brien
Mark O’Brien has been drawing cartoons full time since just after he graduated with an economics degree in 1984, Throughout the 80s he sold his […]
Cartoon Alley: Ned Wenlock
Ned Wenlock lives in Wellington and work as an animator, designer and illustrator. He has been drawing comics since about the age of nine. He […]
Taxpayer support for Bill English’s home and happiness
In recent days, there has been an odd symmetry between Graham Henry’s response to the All Blacks defeat in Durban and John Key’s rationale for […]
Gordon Campbell on the travel expenses of MPs
The issue of MPs’ travel expenses – and its disreputable cousin, government spending – have thrown up a pretty interesting moral distinction. Government spending, which provides services to the general public, is seen to be an intrinsically bad thing that must be rationed. MPs’ travel spending on the other hand, is seen as an intrinsically good thing that does not even need to be justified. It just is – here’s the amount we spent, don’t ask to know the purpose. The worth is assumed, and is beyond challenge.
Putting the SAS back into Afghanistan
Who has stolen John Key’s brain? The Prime Minister who only a couple of months ago was demanding to see a viable exit strategy before […]
Foreign ownership rules, and California’s support for Chief Justice Sian Elias
To its critics, the government’s response to the recession has looked like an Eighties Revival. Psychologically speaking, that’s not so surprising, When in trouble, politicians […]
Treasury and the Don Brash revival
People are just so suspicious. When you have Treasury touting the virtues of contracting out public services and Don Brash – clearly, our best and […]