No Right Turn

BFM's podcast of my interview on New Zealand and Guantanamao on Wednesday is online here .

National Radio this morning had a piece on Member's Bills and the increased role they are playing in the House this term . According to...

When the British government introduced its system of "control orders" allowing terrorist suspects to be subject to house arrest, c...

The case of Christopher Taunoa and Others v Attorney General , which sparked the whole row over prisoner compensation and gave us the Priso...

The Iraqi Interior Minister, Bayan Jabr, has denied that the death squads currently terrorising Iraq by disappearing, torturing, and killing...

Two years ago, the Atlantic Monthly ran a "war game" to explore America's options in dealing with Iran . The depressing concl...

Browsing the progress of legislation [PDF], I see that the government has finally taken some steps to clean up the order paper and dump old...

Billmon: Mutually Assured Dementia

(Image stolen from the New York Times ) That's a scene from Washington DC yesterday, where tens of thousands of people assembled to p...

Fourteen months ago, Nepal's King Gyanendra sacked his government and declared a state of emergency , suspending all basic human rights ...

Flight Lieutenant Malcolm Kendall-Smith has gone on trial on five charges of disobeying a lawful order. His chief defence - that the orde...

In my last post on the Climate Change and Governance Conference, I quoted Business Council for Sustainable Development chairman Peter Neils...

Tony Milne (formerly of I See Red ) has an interesting speech up on Scoop on the subject of “Renewal” - The role of Young Labour in a third ...

My post on New Zealand and Guantanamo seems to have attracted some attention (probably due to its being frontpaged on Scoop for the last d...

Italy went to the polls over the last two days, and I've spent too much time this morning watching the results trickle in. And the outc...

Three years ago yesterday, that statue of Saddam was toppled in Baghdad, marking the end of the invasion and the beginning of the occupatio...

I'm pleased to report that my pledgebank pledge to get people to lobby MPs demanding credible action on climate change and a cross-part...

Over the last month, millions of French students and young people have been protesting against the government's Contrat Premiere Embauch...

The Local Government and Environment Committee is seeking submissions on Jeanette Fitzsimons' Resource Management (Climate Protection) ...

For the past month, Correction Inmate Employment instructors belonging to the Corrections Association have been engaging in low-level indust...