No Right Turn

Lebanon and Hizbollah ready to welcome Ahmadinejad

Last night, Parliament saw the first reading of the Lawyers and Conveyancers Amendment Bill . The primary purpose of the bill is to restore ...

Last week, the government put two IHC companies into statutory management after they indicated that they would not be able to pay staff wag...

A US judge has followed up her ruling last month that the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy was unconstitutio...

Stuff is reporting that Celia Wade-Brown has won the Wellington mayoralty by 176 votes . So much for Kerry Prendergast. And so much for he...

So, with less than two hours to go until we find out who has won the Wellington mayoralty, incumbent Kerry Prendergast is pre-emptively blam...

The World Economic Forum has released their annual Global Gender Gap Report , showing New Zealand ranks fifth in the world for gender equali...

Something barbaric is happening in Queensland: they're trying a woman for having an abortion : It is alleged that Tegan Leach, 20, and ...

On Friday, US special forces attempted to rescue Linda Norgrove, a UK aid worker held hostage in Afghanistan. They failed, and she died. I...

Te Papa - "our place" - is asking pregnant or menstruating women not to attend one of its tours : An invitation for regional mus...

Last month, we learned that John Key had been conspiring with Peter Shirtcliffe to overturn MMP and replace it with a less democratic elect...

Last week, John Key demonstrated his utter lack of backbone by refusing to stand up to Paul Henry's racism , either at the time or after...

The London Metropolitan Police has a problem: they keep abusing their powers and wrongfully arresting or even killing protestors. They k...

Its election season in America, which means we get the dreary sight of candidates appealing to bigotry to get elected. Today its New York g...

The Herald reports that the Auckland District Health Board has had a clean sweep by candidates with names at the top of the alphabet . Ove...

Parliament resumes tomorrow, and first on the Order Paper [PDF] is something interesting: Member's Notice of Motion No. 1, a motion to ...

So, Paul Henry has resigned . Good riddance. The man was a vile little racist who pandered to the worst elements of our society for rating...

Today, October 10, is the world day against the death penalty . New Zealand finally abolished the death penalty over 20 years ago, but 58 ...

Injustice in three dimensions

While everyone is congratulating Len Brown for his landslide victory in the Auckland mayoral race , and thanking whatever entities they do o...