No Right Turn

On Friday, the Supreme Court upheld the right of the courts to formally declare laws to be inconsistent with the Bill of Rights Act. This do...

Today marks the centenary of the end of the first world war. While it wasn't quite the world's stupidest war - that title probably g...

Back in 2015, we learned that miners were destroying Northland's wetlands to dig up swamp kauri and exporting the raw logs to China und...

Izzeldin Abuelaish's three daughters were killed in Gaza – but he still clings to hope for the Middle East

Private spy companies infiltrating environmental groups to disrupt and spy on them for governments and toxic industries seems to be becoming...

Back in 2016, the High Court declared that National's 2010 prisoner voting ban (the one which was so shabby and shoddily passed that it...

During its final term in office, National removed democracy from the RMA by removing notification and appeal rights while allowing Minister...

Another report from the Independent Police Conduct Authority was released today, finding that police who sped at 200 km/h down a busy Auckla...

The government's offshore oil exploration ban has already borne fruit, with Canadian oil firm TAG Oil quitting New Zealand : Taranaki o...

This morning Parliament passed the Crown Minerals (Petroleum) Amendment Act , outlawing future offshore oil and gas exploration. As I've...

The labour market statistics have been released, showing that unemployment has dropped to 3.9% - its lowest level since 2008. The number of...

Watching the US elections from the bottom of the world in New Zealand, I'm struck by how ramshackle and decrepit the system is. The tale...

The US midterm elections are tomorrow, and people are quite reasonably painting them as the US's last chance to remain a democracy . But...

An unrepresentative Parliament. Political parties taking millions of dollars in secret cash. Crony appointments and revolving door jobs. The...

NZTA will be trialling point-to-point speed cameras in Auckland , in the Waterview Tunnel and on the Southern Motorway. Speed is a killer, a...

Voters in New Caledonia went to the polls yesterday in an independence referendum , and voted 56-44 to remain a colony of France . Which is ...

Foreign water bottling plants are a ripoff for New Zealand . Foreigners are essentially given a resource for free, and they then turn around...

Trudeau won’t stop $12bn of arms sales to Saudi after Khashoggi’s death because money always wins over murder

Another day, and another article full of special pleading from farmers (or their mouthpieces) about how the rest of us should continue to su...

If we are to avoid catastrophic climate change, then we need to end the mining and use of fossil fuels. This means not just ending oil, whic...