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 […]
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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 […]
Gordon Campbell: The Sian Elias speech about crime
The recent speech by Chief Justice Sian Elias may have been greeted with some – sensational headlines – “Top Judge Suggests Prison Amnesty” – and […]
The Winston Peters Comeback
Only Winston Peters could say the hardest word in the political lexicon – “Sorry” – by implying that his mistakes were really due to his […]
The bogus benefits of PPPs
Occasionally, someone in business lets the cat out of the bag in a way that is impossible to satirise. Thus in the NZ Herald this […]
The Greens’ new peace initiative
Click to enlarge Non aggression pacts tend to get a bad press, both in real life and in fiction. Hitler and Stalin, two of the […]
Phil Goff Interview
An interview with Labour leader Phil Goff
Eyeball Economics
Making a living on the Net
Worth Fighting For
The battle to bridge the gender pay gap in New Zealand.
Get That Camera Out of Here, We’re Making a Film
The ‘Fourth World’ cinema of Barry Barclay
Left Coasting : In California, Education Just Doesn’t Pay
How California has screwed up the funding of education
Classics: The Rabbits Wedding by Garth Williams
Children’s book illustrator Garth Williams and The Rabbits’ Wedding
The Complicatist : Bradford Cox
Bradford Cox of Deerhunter doowop.