No Right Turn

The Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security has released their second annual report [PDF]. The headline news? The SIS is still unfi...

The National Party became a subject of ridicule over the last few months when Nuk Koroko's Airport Authorities (Lost Property) Amendmen...

NewsHub has exposed the fact that WINZ is forcing beneficiaries to sign blatantly unlawful employment contracts with an Australian labour-hi...

The tales of bodies and blood that surround a front line in Syria

The government is explicitly banning schools from using "seclusion rooms" : Seclusion will be outlawed following worrying cases w...

The Auditor-General has released their report into Murray McCully's sordid Saudi sheep bribe. While they find it was not a bribe in the...

The Labour Market Statistics were released today, showing that unemployment has dropped to 4.9% - the first time it has been under 5% in Na...

'We were living a real tragedy in east Aleppo': One family's journey across the city amid the bloodshed Aleppo’s agony is far f...

National wants to let an Australian mining company prospect on conservation land : An Australian gold mining company is applying for consen...

Now there's a surprise: it turns out that Donald Trump is a tax cheat : Donald J. Trump proudly acknowledges he did not pay a dime in f...

Another reminder that in John Key's "rock star economy", the real growth industry is foodbanks : An increase in the number of...

Two weeks ago the government finally released New Zealand's second Open Government Partnership action plan . It was a pallid, unambitiou...

What it's really like to be in the middle of the battle for Aleppo The strange case of the Scottish ambulance found among the rubble of...

Iceland went to the polls over the weekend , and while the final outcome isn't clear yet , what is clear is that the Pirate Party fell w...

Its Halloween, which is as close to a religious holiday as I get. Pumpkins! Chocolate! Spooky plastic ravens! More chocolate! If kids kn...

We've finally managed to get a marine protected area in the Ross Sea : A joint New Zealand-US proposal to create the world's larges...

Writing in the Herald , Brian Fallow looks at New Zealand's options for meeting our carbon budget . None of them look very credible. And...

Next month the US will be sending a non-nuclear-armed (but possibly cluster-bomb-armed) ship to New Zealand to participate in the New Zealan...

For the past few years Housing New Zealand has been evicting tenants on the basis of dodgy tests for methamphetamine residue. Now it turns o...

The Syrian town shattered by war that may finally have seen an end to the fighting