No Right Turn

I've spent the last hour reading Don Hunn's Investigation into the public service recruitment and employment of Ms Madeleine Setchel...

So, it looks like it's third time lucky for the police. Having dumped their case to Campbell Live and the Herald , only to have them wi...

Salon has an intersting piece about how "intelligent design" has evolved in the wake of its court loss a few years ago. Some ha...

The government is cutting it fine on the Electoral Finance Bill . While it officially has a report back date of January 25, it is actually ...

Yesterday, I pointed out that the National Party was casting around for a new source of warm bodies to underpin its "low wage, low ski...

After last week's debacle over the police failing to press terrorism charges against the Urewera 17, you'd think that the governmen...

So, the Herald thinks that the government's Electoral Finance Bill (due back from committee any day now) is an attack on democracy . ...

This one in Australia . A judge has delivered a scathing criticism of ASIO officers involved in bringing terror-related charges against S...

The last four members of the Urewera 17 were bailed today , after spending 28 days in jail. Pre-trial remand is a common feature of our jus...

Laila Harre's 2007 Bruce Jesson lecture, Union Relevance in Aotearoa in the 21st Century , is now up on Scoop. It's interesting rea...

On Saturday, the VUW Postgraduate Students Association held a one-day symposium entitled For Freedom: Demystifying Terror in Everyday Life i...

According to the New Zealand police, this means I am a terrorist, and that my phone and email communications can all be tapped, then smeared...

So, having failed in their attempt to get Campbell Live to publish the case against the Urewera 17 on live TV, the police have instead dumpe...

Holocaust denial in the White House

On Sunday morning, Mark Edwards was arrested for trespassing after a domestic dispute. During the arrest, police wrestled him to the ground...

Lord Cashpoint has called for a cap on donations to political parties .

Yesterday, the police got egg all over their faces when the Solicitor-General refused leave to lay charges under the Terrorism Suppression ...

Back in 2004, the anti-GE crowd were concerned that the Terrorism Suppression Act could be used against them . But the response of the poli...

On Morning Report [audio] this morning, Police Commissioner Howard Broad was asked the obvious question: why didn't he try and prosecu...

Apparently, this makes me a terrorist : Like Hansel and Gretel hoping to follow their bread crumbs out of the forest, the FBI sifted throug...