No Right Turn

That's the only way to describe Auckland property developers John Lenihan and Jane Greensmith, who this morning had their henchmen attac...

The Syrian refugee crisis has brought out the best in some countries. Germany has opened its borders, Canada its hearts. Denmark, OTOH, is d...

The joy of Canada delivered from Stephen Harper’s darkness to Justin Trudeau’s light Meet the British physicist who ignored Taliban death t...

Four years ago, the Australian government passed a plain tobacco packaging law, requiring cigarettes to be sold in plain, vomit-coloured car...

That's apparently the High Court's ruling on the police raid on Nicky Hager : The judge found that the search was illegal. He said ...

Earlier today I highlighted the New Zealand government's climate change policy of paying its Kyoto bill with dodgy (and now banned) ...

The government released a pile of climate change reports today on its Kyoto Protocol CP1 and CP2 (to which we are not a party) obligations....

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 ...

Why is Indonesia not in the Saudi-led Sunni coalition against terror?

Yesterday, the Children's Commissioner revealed that more children than ever before were living in poverty . John Key's response to ...

How absurd is Thailand's lese majeste law? A man could be jailed under it for insulting the king's dog : A Thai factory worker cou...

For the past year, National has been talking about a recovery, even a "rock star economy". Things are doing so well John Key gave ...

Over the weekend, 200 countries agreed a new climate deal in Paris. Despite the rhetoric of "the end of the fossil fuel era" and ...

Sigh. People hate the TPPA, and as with other controversial political topics - banning child beating, the 90 day law, and retrospectively ap...

Is there really any difference between a terrorist and an ordinary criminal?

So, John Key's vanity flag referendum has had the expected result, with National Fern pipping Labour Fern for first place in the prelimi...

Speaking of ham-fisted anti-terror measures increasing radicalisation , Radio New Zealand has the appalling story of a kiwi Muslim questione...

From the UK, a warning that ham-fisted anti-terror policing is radicalising Muslims : UK authorities are radicalising young Muslims by tack...

Back in October, Forest & Bird released drone footage of Northland's forests , showing them dead and dying due to rampant pests. The...

Back in March, a pair of environmental vandals in Auckland tried to have a stand of 500 year old kauri cut down. People rallied to protect t...