No Right Turn

Further to my post on prisoners and benefits , according to the Dominion-Post this morning, the average time taken to stop a benefit payment...

The news that around half of all prisoners are paid benefits (which they are not entitled to) while in prison has (predictably) caused some...

The Whig has decided to call it a day...

In Voyage , Stephen Baxter presents an alternate history in which America doesn't stop at the Moon, but presses onwards to Mars. It...

His Excellency Göran Persson, Prime Minister of Sweden, "Economic and Social Policy: the Swedish Way" . Monday, Feb 14th, 17:30 -...

I haven't paid much attention to the current debate on Social Security in the US because I thought I'd seen it all before. Social S...

ObservatioNZ describes the present National party as "Muldoon with monetarism" . WHile I think this is a perfect description of B...

More than 70 Italian Police Officers go on trial today for their role in the brutal nighttime raid on the Armando Diaz school and adjacent ...

Who's responsible for the BMR? Who's responsible for the illegal and inhumane imprisonment scheme which has so far cost us over a m...

The Sudanese government has announced that it will no longer fly aircraft over Darfur . It's a small step, but a positive one. The Sud...

Martin Mubanga is a British Muslim who spent 33 months in Guantanamo bay essentially for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. He was...

But K. should not forget that the trial would not be public, if the court deems it necessary it can be made public but there is no law th...

Don Brash at Te Tii Waitangi Marae yesterday, seated between Destiny Church's Brian Tamaki and shotgun-wielding Tame Iti: Somehow, th...

The sins of our fathers, the folly of man and the art of documenting history

The approach of Waitangi Day has brought the usual chorus of calls to rename or even replace our national day, on the grounds that the pre...

Preliminary election results from Iraq show Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani United Alliance list ahead with two-thirds of the vote - though thi...

US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld is reconsidering whether to attend a conference in Germany. Why? Because he may face arrest on war...

Despite the title, this is actually the first in a series of historical examples of speech which has led to prosecution under our sedition l...

Baghdad, the city that dreams of death

One of the reasons people supported MMP was to build a more consensual style of government, with parties working together to pass legislatio...