No Right Turn

Labour MP Su'a William Sio's request to be sworn in in Samoan has brought out the worst in the kiwi blogosphere. Over on KKKblog, ...

The Sydney Morning Herald had a piece yesterday on the results of New South Wales' "tough on crime" policies : spiralling co...

The Herald reports that nearly a third of our beaches are unsafe for swimming . But reading the story, a scarier fact emerges: that's ...

Paul Krugman: We all go together when we go

An elderly man in the UK has been issued as ASBO for dressing as a schoolgirl : A 59-year-old man who went out in public dressed as a schoo...

Whenever I'm in Tajikistan, my mobile phone says I'm in Dubai

The 79th carnival of the liberals is now up at the Capitol Annex .

I haven't commented on Canada’s constitutional crisis so far because, to someone who lives in an MMP jurisdiction where coalition politi...

Two years ago today, Fiji's democratically elected government was overthrown by its own army in a military coup. And two years on, thin...

Labour MP Su'a William Sio is annoyed that he will not be allowed to be sworn in as an MP in Samoan . According to s11 of the Constitu...

Since the Fijian coup two years ago, New Zealand has imposed sanctions on the Fijian regime, including a travel ban on official sports teams...

National has rejected Treasury's advice in its triennial ideological burp . Some of this is stuff they were never going to do anyway -...

In addition to trying to restart the Revolution and take us back to the 90's , Treasury's Briefing to the Incoming Minister [PDF] a...

Bill English has released Treasury's Briefing to the Incoming Minister [PDF], and as expected, its the usual ideological burp. Follow...

It now turns out that the police who searched UK Conservative MP Damian Green's Parliamentary office did not have a warrant and was not ...

Earlier this year, a disarmament conference in Wellington hammered out a draft agreement to ban cluster bombs. Today, the resulting document...

In the UK, embarrassing political leaks are now classified as a "threat to national security" : Sources said their investigation ...

At long last, Drinking Liberally is getting a Christchurch chapter . The first meeting will be next Thursday, with EPMU Secretary Andrew Li...

Australia is notable as the only democratic nation not to have a bill of rights. Not any more . The Labour government is planning to mark ...

National are screaming about a blowout in the ACC books which will see them another billion dollars in the red over the next few years. Na...