No Right Turn

The fifth kiwi carnival , highlighting interesting posts in the New Zealand blogosphere, is now up at Random Contributionz . There's som...

The Shia shopkeeper growing rich on Saddam

John Key has outlined National's broad fiscal policy , promising to phase in tax cuts which will eventually be worth $3.9 billion per an...

While digging for information for this post , I came across the following graph in a Treasury report which makes it abundently clear who we...

The WIN party, established to fight the government's smokefree policy, has withdrawn its name from the ballot , and are now urging their...

Tonga's public service strike is getting ugly, with riots and mass arrests in the capital Nuku'alofa. There's more news here a...

Frogblog has posted a very useful table comparing Labour's announced extension of the Working For Families package with a generous estim...

Last month, the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment released a report titled Future currents: Electricity scenarios for New Zea...

Shias are the targets as bombs bring carnage to bus station

First we find out that the London Metropolitan Police lied to the public about the execution of Jean Charles de Menezes; now we discover th...

In the wake of a better-than-expected Pre-election financial update , Labour has come out and gazumped National on the tax front - not by cu...

Andrew Wilkie , the former Australian intelligence official who blew the whistle on the Howard government's manipulation of intelligence...

A couple of years ago I read Tim Flannery's The Eternal Frontier - a full-fledged ecological history of North America from the end of t...

Osman Hussain, the suspect in the July 21 London bombings currently being held in Italy, will be extradited to the UK to face trial . Again,...

United Future has something the other parties don't: an actual constitution policy . They're promising a Royal Commission to follow ...

Secrets of the morgue: Baghdad’s body count

I've been contacted by the campaign manager for Labour's North Shore candidate, Phil Twyford, asking that I link to his campaign web...

Economist and blogger Tyler Cowen has been visting New Zealand recently as one of the endless series of foreign experts parachuted in by the...

That is the only way to describe using an Education Ministry seminar to encourage participants to vote Labour . While the person responsibl...

In the wake of July's summary execution of Jean Charles de Menezes at Stockwell station, London police attempted to justify their behav...