No Right Turn

Junior doctors have won their employment dispute with the DHBs , getting a 5.8% pay rise. More importantly, they also ensured that they wou...

Last week, the Democrats won control of both the US House and Senate. Cynics have asked what they are willing to do with this newfound powe...

A couple of months ago, I sent in a submission opposing Palmerston North City Council's plans to develop a windfarm in the Turitea Reser...

That's pretty much my attitude to The Stadium, and indeed the entire Rugby World Cup. Sure, the event itself is good insofar as it will...

Lebanon faces new crisis after walkout by Hizbollah

A Sydney Morning Herald piece on comments about Private Jake Kovco (the first Australian soldier to die in Iraq) caught my eye for its rem...

The Netherlands is famous for being a tolerant, liberal society. So it's a little startling to see that their government is apparently ...

Here come the odious excuses

Two trials in Britain last week have exposed a sinister double standard over Muslims and "hate speech". Mizanur Rahman had spoken...

The Sensible Sentencing Trust has reacted to the bailing of Chris Kahui by calling for a law change to prevent those accused of murder from ...

Mexico City - or rather, the Mexican Federal District - has just passed a civil union law . And the northern state of Coahuila is also repo...

It looks like the Democrat's victory in Wednesday's US elections will claim another victim: US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton . H...

Journalists' Coverage of Middle East Shallow and Distorted Echoes of the Roman Empire

For the past eight months, radiographers at half the country's district health boards have been trying unsuccessfully to negotiate pay p...

While we're celebrating yesterday's Democrat victory in the US elections, its worth remembering that the US has more than one layer ...

The Herald has posted voting lists for last night's vote on the Sale of Liquor (Youth Alcohol Harm Reduction: Purchase Age) Amendment ...

Who was responsible for the Republican Party's humiliating loss in yesterday's mid-term elections? It can be summed up in three wor...

The twenty-fifth Carnival of the Liberals is now up at Philosophy, etc .

Yesterday in Question Time , National Party climate change spokesperson Dr Nick Smith attacked the government over Marsden B, asking the Pri...

The Sale of Liquor (Youth Alcohol Harm Reduction: Purchase Age) Amendment Bill just lost its second reading, 72 - 49. An excellent end to ...