No Right Turn

Both Stuff and the Herald are running the story that a new government website will "name and shame bad tenants" . From the headl...

The Iraq war truly has been a disaster. According to the UN, it has resulted in 3.7 million displaced people - one in eight Iraqis. Two mil...

Just a reminder that nominations for the 2007 Bloggies close on Thursday, so if you want to nominate your favourite New Zealand blogs, you ...

Jordan Carter has some thoughts on Matthew Hooten's prediction that "National will end the year with a more comprehensive climate...

Hot on the heels of Death of a President comes a British offering: The Trial of Tony Blair , a satire exploring the possibility of Blair be...

Mounir al-Motassadek, a member of Al Qaeda's Hamburg Cell, has been convicted in Germany of providing logistical support to the 9/11 plo...

Former Fijian Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry, who was ousted by George Speight and President Iloilo during the 2000 coup, has joined Commo...

For those considering going carbon neutral this year, The Good Human has a guide to which company to choose for carbon offsets. As an Ame...

With Tony Blair expected to leave office sometime in the next few months, attention has turned to his legacy. And unfortunately for Blair, ...

It seems that the Fijian military have moved on from beating and killing their critics to simple thuggery, with the attack on a visiting Bri...

According to the Sunday Times , Israel is planning a pre-emptive nuclear strike on Iran . This would not just be a crime against humanity an...

Before Christmas, I commented on a proposal for the Christchurch City Council to enact a bylaw banning gang patches and colours and granti...

Currently there are more than enough reasons not to visit or transit through the United States. Quite apart from the present administration...

Saturday's Dominion-Post had a (syndicated) interview with Terry Pratchett, which inted crypticly that in addition to the recent Hogfat...

Southland seems to be shaping up as the latest center of windfarm development, with Trustpower announcing plans for a new wind farm at Otara...

Terry Jones: They have made a killing

The whole bloody thing was obscene

Fiji's coup has just gone from bad to worse. This morning, soldiers took a man to the Queen Elizabeth barracks in Suva for "questi...

No more bloggage today, as I have a wedding to go to in Wellington. Its an unusual wedding - a combined Thai Buddhist - Catholic bash - whi...

Last November, the Democrats won control of both houses of Congress in a mid-term landslide widely interpreted as a backlash against Preside...