No Right Turn

Last year, the Ministry for the Environment reported that 61% of New Zealand's rivers were unsafe for swimming . National's response...

Farmers are our biggest greenhouse gas polluters. At the moment, they're driving our climate towards more droughts and more storms. But ...

The latest NSALeak: a look inside GCHQ's bag of dirty tricks : The UK intelligence agency GCHQ has developed sophisticated tools to man...

The Herald 's David Fisher has a scoop this morning: OIA documents with an explicit acknowledgement that "political pressure" ...

When the Climate Voter campaign launched, one of my first thoughts - expressed over Twitter, and directly to their network contact - was th...

The National government's policy for economic growth has been simple: pump up dairy production, export more low-value milk powder, and k...

Last week the British government claimed that files which would expose the use of Diego Garcia as a US torture facility had been "lost...

Why doesn't the media ever mention the lack of progress in the Middle East?

Last week we learned that police were juking the domestic violence stats by refusing to prosecute people . But that's not the only area ...

On Wednesday Germany uncovered a second American spy in its military , and retaliated today by evicting the local CIA station chief . I'...

Last year we learned that Parliamentary Services had spied on journalist Andrea Vance, tracking her movements around the Parliamentary preci...

The Cook Islands went to the polls yesterday for Parliamentary elections. The result is interesting: from the preliminary tallies, Prime Mi...

How awful are National's "bottom lines" for our lakes, rivers, and streams? The Greens' Russel Norman dug up something th...

When paid parental leave was introduced back in 2002, National opposed it , calling it "middle-class welfare", "feminist ideo...

Another day, another case of British spies being complicit in the torture of one of their own citizens : Britain’s intelligence and securit...

Finally the concrete promise I've been waiting for: after years of wibbling and refusing to go on record, Labour has said clearly and un...

The true Gaza back-story that the Israelis aren’t telling this week

The other day we learned that the Home Office had conveniently "lost" 114 files on alleged child abuse by senior members of the Br...

Startling news from across the Tasman: the Australian government's home solar energy policies - a combination of direct subsidies, feed-...

When the Syrian regime used chemical weapons against its own people last year, the British government expressed outrage . Now it turns out t...