No Right Turn

Tim Groser is attacking those calling for transparency over the TPP, saying that they want it to fail : Campaigners against the Trans-Pacif...

New Zealand is now officially allied with Israel at the United Nations : JUSCANZ (pronounced “juice cans” — really!) is UN-speak for a coll...

[Image stolen from @CAGOxfordshire ] England is currently facing its wettest winter since records began, which has caused widespread fl...

Judith Collins is suggesting that police wear cameras . Good. Quite apart from the evidentiary benefits, a US trial has shown that cop-cams ...

Today Labour tried to put forward a Parliamentary motion calling on the government to release the draft text of the Trans-Pacific Partnershi...

Nevada is giving up on defending its constitutional ban on same-sex marriage in court : Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto, in a motio...

Glenn Greenwald has launched a new news site, The Intercept , "to aggressively report on the disclosures provided to us by our source, ...

Welcome to National's New Zealand, where people are being forced to live in tents because HousingNZ doesn't give a shit about them :...

Yesterday we learned that John Key had responded to the "threat" of people travelling to Syria to participate in its civil war by ...

Who'd have thunk it? The UK government's privatisation of Royal Mail turns out to have been a massive wealth-transfer to the rich, t...

Good news: Canterbury may get its democracy back : Momentum is growing for mid-term elections at Environment Canterbury (ECan) that could ...

The weekend's NSALeak: GCHQ has a specialised "dirty tricks" department : British spies have developed “dirty tricks” for use...

The number of women sentenced to death across the Middle East has very little to do with justice

Since 2012, refugees seeking asylum in Australia have instead been dumped on Nauru and Papua New Guinea in appalling and inhumane conditio...

Yesterday was Waitangi Day, and to celebrate it the New Zealand Herald stuck a white-power logo on its front page and declared itself to be...

Last year, a group of British police officers accused the Conservative party's chief whip Andrew Mitchell of claling them "plebs...

Afghanistan is going to let men beat their wives and children without penalty : A new Afghan law will allow men to attack their wives, chil...

Back in 2008, three peace activists broke into the GCSB/NSA spy base at Waihopai and deflated one of the satellite domes . They were subsequ...

Earlier in the week the Australian Human Rights Commission launched an inquiry into the welfare of children in Australia's refugee gulag...

The latest Household Labour Force Survey was released today, showing a drop in unemployment to 6.0%. But there are still 147,000 people out ...