No Right Turn

Lords reform has failed in the UK. And moves to finally get equal-sized electorates (meaning equal-value votes ) have failed along with it ...

Today's criminal banker story: Standard Chartered Bank is alleged to have schemed with Iran to launder money and evade financial sanctio...

Earlier in the year, a select committee reported back on the government's Exclusive Economic Zone and Continental Shelf (Environmental E...

Hijab defection drives wedge into fractured party

TVNZ released its latest ONE News Colmar Brunton Poll on Sunday, showing that 63% of kiwis support marriage equality. But its a more intere...

The government released its quarterly dump of Ministerial expenses on Thursday. I've spent the last hour or so going through the cred...

Today is Hiroshima Day, on which we remember the US's destruction of the Japanese city of Hiroshima in the world's first atomic atta...

Over the weekend, we were told that another two kiwi soldiers had died in Afghanistan . The total New Zealand body-count is now seven, five...

Syria's ancient treasures pulverised Assad's merciless assault risks wiping out both his country's future – and its past

Last month, Peter Dunne gave an interview on TVNZ's "Q and A" , in which he attacked the concept of minimum alcohol pricing, s...

I've been reading more of the Law Commission's review of the Official Information Act [PDF], this time on resourcing and charging. ...

A bank of England economist has blamed economists for the financial crisis . His reasoning? “I think one of the great errors we as economi...

Last year, we learned that Treasury had been behaving like bankers , accepting lavish gifts and corporate hospitality from the people they w...

For the past two years, I've done an annual survey of Ministers and government departments, requesting their raw OIA tracking logs and u...

Currently, the government is rushing to sell off Mighty River Power and other state assets to its cronies. Meanwhile, the Herald has a tim...

Having been told to wait by the Waitangi Tribunal, the government is now threatening to go ahead with its asset sales anyway : "We ha...

Yesterday, Pacific Fibre cancelled its plans for a second international fibre-optic cable , after failing to raise enough capital. The busi...

The government has announced the framework for its new charter - sorry, "partnership" - schools . The core details? No requirem...

The Government Administration Committee has called for submissions on Holly Walker's Lobbying Disclosure Bill . Submissions can be mad...

Back in the 90's, National cut the public service to the bone and sacked thousands of public servants. But because the work still neede...