No Right Turn

Aotearoa is currently in the tail end of our first climate disaster of the year, with flooding in Northland , Tairawhiti , and Coromandel , ...

Like many others, I am outraged by the regime's decision today to ban the use of puberty-blockers for trans (but not cis) children . And...

When the police relaxed pursuit policy in 2023 , allowing them to go back to chasing people like mad dogs regardless of the supposed offence...

Unreinforced masonry buildings killed 40 people in the Christchurch earthquakes , and as a result owners were required to fix their deathtra...

Back in 2022, RNZ took an in-depth look at the "Independent" Police Conduct Authority and its handling of killings by police. The...

One of the big underlying problems in our political system is the prevalence of short-term thinking, most usually seen in the periodic massi...

Newsroom 's Marc Daalder published an important piece over the weekend about air pollution, the invisible killer . It kills 3300 people...

20 people died last week of covid . So, two months out from the election, Labour has announced the end of all covid restrctions . We can a...

In 2020, the Brereton report found that the Australian SAS had murdered 39 Afghan civilians and committed war crimes . The British governmen...

In February 2021, police shot Tangaru-Noere Turia in Auckland as he was leaving a house. And now the Independent Police Conduct Authority ha...

Air pollution kills, and dirty diesel vehicles are a major source of it. Cleaning them up has enormous social benefits in avoided deaths and...

Labour is a status quo party. Like National, they're committed to low debt, low taxes, and absolutely no wealth taxes on rich people li...

Over in the UK, the radical Tory government is planning more benefit cuts to screw the poor . Meanwhile, there's also a timely reminder ...

Today, the government has taken its long-signalled decision to repeal virtually all covid restrictions. From midnight tonight, there won...

Back in 2020, Siouxsie Wiles and Toby Morris published a catchy graphic on The Spinoff on the Swiss Cheese Model of public health , with va...

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has just announced plans to phase out MIQ from the end of the month , allowing vaccinated kiwis and eventually...

On Tuesday, RNZ published a major story about the police killing of Shargin Stephens , which suggested that the police had engaged in a sus...

RNZ has a major story this morning about the police killing of Shargin Stephens in Rotorua in 2016. The "Independent" Police Cond...

One of the big risks from climate change is that it will make large chunks of the planet uninhabitable due to heat and humidity , and if you...

The media this morning was full of hopeful stories about how the current lockdown may have been a "false alarm" and an over-reacti...