No Right Turn

Operation 8 , the police's "unlawful, unjustified and unreasonable" attack on Tuhoe, involved widespread surveillance, includ...

We've topped the Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index as the world's least corrupt country again : New Zealand ...

Today is a Member's Day, though a fairly boring one. There's a couple of boring local bills to get out of the way first, followed by...

So, John Banks has finally admitted that he's a political dead duck, and decided not to stand for re-election . Good riddance. Quite ap...

National's refusal to protect the critically endangered Maui's Dolphin has been making international headlines . And now its drawn t...

The SIS's Annual Report was released today, and as usual I've been browsing through it. There's some interesting news in it: ap...

In Wellington, the city council uses an "alternative giving" campaign in an effort to sweep away the human reminders of economic ...

So, David Cunliffe may have broken the law against election-day advertising by tweeting in support of Poto Williams on the day of the Chris...

John Key says the GCSB is not engaged in the "wholesale collection" of metadata : Prime Minister John Key yesterday sought anothe...

The Greens' Russel Norman points out the obvious: National's asset sales are driven by the need to make up revenue given away in tax...

The latest NSALeak: Australia's Defence Signals Directorate offered to spy on their own citizens : Australia's surveillance agency ...

One of the common questions that arise when considering changes to MMP is what effects those changes will have. While this is difficult to d...

Nearly a century after the Armenian genocide, these people are still being slaughtered in Syria

Who'd have think it? The hero of the right, Margaret Thatcher, was a tax cheat : Flag-waving former PM Margaret Thatcher may have avoid...

For the past decade, the UK internet industry has had a voluntary blacklist to block child pornography. Now, the government wants to impose ...

I have no special knowledge of the Green Party leadership challenge. I am not a member of the party, and I have no useful sources. More impo...

Last week we learned that Australia had been spying on Indonesia . The Indonesians are naturally furious, and have already ended co-operatio...

Last year, we learned that viciously culled the official records of its imperial crimes , incinerating documents and keeping the surviving r...

Today's NSALeak: the Canadian Communications Security Establishment allowed the NSA to spy on the 2010 G8 and G20 summits in Canada : T...

It looks like the police have been withholding evidence in the Kim Dotcom case : Lawyers for Kim Dotcom have threatened to summon governmen...