No Right Turn

When they were in government, National cut funding to NZTA's compliance section to save a few pennies. People died as a result . But it ...

Thais went to the polls over the weekend in the first elections since 2014's military coup . The elections were supposed to be a way fo...

Every year, thousands of refugees try to cross the Mediterranean in leaky boats, desperate to escape whatever hellhole they're in and fi...

How bad are Wellington's bus problems? This bad : The scale of Wellington's bus problems has been revealed, with one operator coppi...

US grovels to Israel the same way ‘supporters’ fawned on Saddam Don’t believe the hype, Isis has not yet been defeated – here’s why Ardern...

Yesterday we learned that the Department of Corrections had agreed to compensate 15 women for illegal internal searches carried out at Auckl...

Over a decade ago, the Palmerston North City Council corruptly sold access to one of its reserves to Mighty River Power to build a windfarm...

Over the Tasman, the racist One Nation has been caught soliciting donations from the US NRA . Naturally, they've complained to police an...

If we are to avoid dangerous levels of anthropogenic climate change which will make the earth uninhabitable, we need to stop burning fossil ...

The Chief Censor has declared the Christchurch terrorist's manifesto objectionable . Its not an especially surprising decision: the Film...

For the past 15 years the US has been murdering people all over Africa, Asia and the Middle East with drone strikes. At their best, these dr...

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Scottish landlords cleared the highlands , driving people off their land and forcing them into d...

The government has followed up with its strong words on Monday by announcing plans to legislate to immediately ban all semi-automatic and mi...

In the wake of Friday's terrorist attack, the SIS has been quick to disclaim responsibility, making increasing claims that they were lo...

The SIS, in an effort to claim that Friday's terrorist attack which killed fifty people wasn't a failure on their part, is saying th...

Parliament met for the first time today since Friday's act of terrorism, with an abbreviated timetable for a condolence motion. It opene...

One of the obvious questions which immediately arose after Friday's act of terrorism was why our extremely well-budgeted spy agencies di...

I was expecting to spend today blogging about climate change, building on the enormous message of hope sent by the school strike on Friday. ...

Thousands of schoolkids around New Zealand have walked out of class today in a school strike for the climate . They're part of a global ...

On 30 January 1972, British soldiers shot 28 unarmed civilians in Derry in Northern Ireland , killing thirteen people. The usual official wh...