No Right Turn

Che Tibby is considering the role of think tanks, and struggling with how a left-wing think tank should or could respond to a fear campaign...

If you watched "Enemy of the State" last night and are wondering what you can do to help Ahmed Zaoui, the Human Rights Foundation ...

The Holden Republic has a detailed and highly informative post on the Te Arawa settlement , which dispels a great deal of the racially divis...

Former US Secretary of State James Baker is touring the world trying to get countries to forgive Iraq's US$200 billion debt. At the sam...

I watched this documentary tonight, in which a TVNZ reporter travelled to Algeria, France, Belgium and Switzerland in an effort to find out ...

ACT Leader Rodney Hide has stood up for transparency and declared which way ACT MPs voted on the HART Bill. ACT split its vote on four moti...

Over the last few years, we've seen disturbing glimpses of how the US treats top-level Al-Qaeda members, and how the war on terror has u...

And finally, a thoughtful response from Rodney Hide : Peter Brown must have agreed to the split vote procedure. It requires leave of the ...

DPF agrees with me on the public's absolute right to know how our representatives are voting. And he suggests the amendment to the sta...

I was shocked by last night's news about inconsistencies and problems counting the local body vote , which have called into question som...

So, what does our supposedly "pro-human rights" government do when faced with a court decision which upholds human rights and aff...

National party Whip Lindsay Tisch has responded to my request that he reveal which way National MPs voted on the HART Bill: In regards to...

A throwaway comment in Che Tibby's latest caught my eye: All I have to say is this, the truly great theories are really, really, har...

Welcome to the Green Zone by William Langewiesche. It's a potted history of the Green Zone, its disconnection from Iraq, and the growt...

Future generations will struggle to escape the legacy of the disaster in Iraq

In his press conference in Rotorua yesterday, Don Brash once again played the race card and accused the government of giving things to Maor...

Don Brash has responded to my query regarding National party whips refusal to disclose who had voted which way on the recent Human Assiste...

Last night I watched the documentary "Singer: A dangerous mind", about the controversial Australian ethicist Peter Singer. For th...

Following his defeat in Auckland, John Banks is apparantly considering returning to national-level politics . Russell Brown is mystified a...

The Campaign For Civil Unions now has a nifty progress-counter so you can see how well they're doing.