No Right Turn

A timely reminder of the bloody anniversary we all forgot

Last month Tongans went to the polls to elect a new Parliament. The Democratic Party did not do well , and I was expecting that once again ...

The Employment Relations Authority has sent a clear message to women: don't complain to them about sexual harassment in the workplace : ...

Last month, John Key admitted in Parliament that he deleted all his text messages "in case his phone is lost" . At the time, I sug...

Jono Naylor's election to Parliament as a National list MP means Palmerston North will be facing a mayoral by-election in February . And...

Surrounded by high-rise flats is a little house filled with Lebanon’s history - clocks, rifles, swords, frogmen’s uniforms

Back in 2011, National, the party of wheeler-dealers, cut a nice little crony capitalist deal with their donors Sky City : Sky City would bu...

Back in 2009, John Key launched a "war on P" , in the form of his Methamphetamine Action Plan . An important part of the plan was ...

Four days before the Scottish Independence Referendum, the UK's supposedly neutral monarch intervened , telling the Scots to "think...

Nicky Hager won an important victory in his case against the police yesterday , forcing discovery of the police's internal working docum...

Four years ago, G4S guards killed Jimmy Mubenga by restraining him inappropriately during a deportation - effectively asphyixiating him . B...

That's the only conclusion that can be drawn from his comments today about the need to lower the threshold for detention : Prime Minist...

Yesterday, the Ombudsman announced that they had begun their review of OIA compliance . They'll be looking closely at 12 central governm...

Peshawar school attack: Massacre of the innocents born of ambivalence towards Taliban

Back in September, Mexican police arrested a group of 43 student teachers who had been travelling to Iguala for a protest against the local ...

The Human Rights Commission released its Annual report of activities under the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture (OPCAT) ...

Its official: we won't have a budget surplus this year . But Bill English is still delusional : The Government believes an OBEGAL surpl...

The Australian Human Rights Commission has been a consistent critic of the Australian government's war on refugees, speaking out for ref...

That didn't take long: the Sydney hostage crisis was barely over and National party politicians were smearing themselves in the blood of...

Once again language is distorted in order to hide US state wrongdoing