No Right Turn

A couple in Christchurch are being prosecuted for consensual incest : A brother and sister who met as young adults are now co-parenting a c...

(Image stolen from @studentsnz ) Which is a no-brainer. Remove the sources of stress in people's lives - getting sick, having enough...

Last week, when we learned that rape and sexual abuse were rife in Australia's Pacific gulag , the Australian government responded in it...

Over the past few days, John Key has been talking up the "threat" of kiwis fighting in Syria , and the need for new laws to stop t...

Last Thursday journalist Nicky Hager was raided by police in a blatant attempt at intimidation for writing Dirty Politics . Now he faces a p...

Over in the UK, police are increasingly abusing anti-terror laws to seize journalist's phone records in order to uncover their sources (...

Lebanon faces Isis and Nusra incursions – and an influx of refugees

Remember National's social housing policy ? The one they campaigned on? The one that talked about how much money they were spending and ...

The police have raided Nicky Hager's home and seized his computers . So, once again a journalist who has embarrassed the Prime Minister ...

Techliberty has an update on police use of Automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) technology . The key points: They have increased the ...

Last week we learned that Australia's "Pacific solution" had sunk to a new level of horror: systematic sexual abuse . Refugees...

Cameron talked the talk at conference. But after the bombing, what then?

John Key announced his New Cabinet today , and in addition to the expected shuffling, there's also a surprise: a new Minister for Nation...

The New Zealand Income Survey was released today, showing that the gender-pay gap in median hourly earnings had narrowed slightly from 10.1...

Back in March, when the British government decided that that we should all Be Scared of Syrian Terrorists, the first thing they did was arre...

The British government wants to ban "non-violent extremists" - that's Tory for "people the government doesn't like...

Live in Auckland? Smile, Auckland Transport will be watching everything you do : Surveillance technology that uses high definition cameras ...

Another day, and another journalist who just doesn't get it about the Greens. This time its Duncan Garner : The Green Party needs a ser...

Yesterday John Key began laying the groundwork to deploy kiwi troops to Iraq to fight in another pointless American war. And with the Labou...

Imagine this scenario: Australian spies seeking to fight domestic terrorism borrow the tactics of their American counterparts and start runn...