No Right Turn

The people make a stand over the lies of Lebanon UN finds evidence of official cover-up in Hariri assassination

Just when the foreshore and seabed is back in the news, there's a court case which perfectly illustrates the real issues involved. In 1...

Helen Clark is defending plans to televise Parliament as "direct democracy" in action. but it is not the filming that people are...

Span is back, and has a roundup of information and gossip on Matt McCarten's new left-wing party. The key fact is that, despite all th...

Albert Venn Dicey is considered to be one of the classic authorities on (British) constitutional law. Here's what he had to say about ...

(Being an ongoing series exposing the abuses perpetrated under our archaic law against sedition ) Editorial, The Green Ray , May 1st, 1...

What the Lebanese fear most is not Syria’s army but a power vacuum

No, not would-be ACT leader John Banks for publicly demanding a top placement on ACT's list , but the ACT board for not forseeing and ma...

The Education and Science Committee is seeking submissions on the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms (Approvals and Enforcement) Amendme...

The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has slammed the Foreshore and Seabed Act 2004 as discriminating against Maori ...

The UK's Prevention of Terrorism Act is barely 24 hours old, and it has already been used to impose control orders on ten detainees jus...

Having failed to gain access to Attoney-General Lord Goldsmith's advice to the British Cabinet on the legality of the Iraq war through t...

In the Middle East, those who are about to die believe profoundly in the afterlife

Nick Venter had an excellent piece in the Dominion Post yesterday (sadly not online) on Parliament's plans to censor press coverage from...

No, not ACT President Catherine Judd's vicious attack on National , but would-be ACT leader John Banks ' contention that National...

Syria reasserts power in Lebanon as its ally returns as prime minister

New Zealand Political Comments considers ways to improve MMP . His suggestions include changing the formula used to assign seats so that a ...

The Prevention of Terrorism Bill has finally passed , after the government compromised by allowing the bill to be reviewed in a year's ...

An incessant mantra from National and ACT is that New Zealand is a "high-tax" country, with the the tax burden here being heavier ...

It's more than a little ironic that in the current struggle over anti-terrorism legislation, the House of Lords, the rump of the British...