No Right Turn

Last week, English Prime Minister Boris Johnson boldly declared that he would rather die be dead in a ditch than delay Brexit . Unfortunatel...

Newsroom today has an excellent, in-depth article on pine trees as carbon sinks . The TL;DR is that pine is really good at soaking up carbo...

Canan Kaftancioglu is a Turkish politician and member of the opposition Republican People's Party (CHP). Like most modern politicians, s...

The Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security has published their report on whether the SIS and GCSB had any complicity in American to...

Lebanon’s crisis is almost unstoppable. Drone warfare is on the horizon

When National was in government and fucking over the poor for the benefit of the rich, foodbanks were a growth industry. And now Labour is i...

Today the government released its Action Plan for Healthy Waterways , aimed at cleaning up our lakes and rivers. Its actually quite good. Th...

Today I appeared before the Environment Committee to give an oral submission on the Zero Carbon Bill . Over 1,500 people have asked to appea...

The State Services Commission and Ombudsman have released another batch of OIA statistics, covering the last six months. Request volumes a...

KiwiBuild was one of the Ardern government's core policies. The government would end the housing crisis and make housing affordable agai...

As the climate crisis escalates, it is now obvious that we need to radically decarbonise our economy. The good news is that its looking easy...

On September 27, School Strike 4 Climate will be striking for a future to pressure the government for meaningful climate action. This time,...

Another day, another constitutional outrage in the UK. This time, the government is saying that if parliament passes a law to stop Brexit be...

Environment Canterbury has finally proposed nitrogen limits to stop dairy farmers from poisoning Christchurch's water supply. And natura...

As Trump flip-flops on Iran talks, the reality is that the ‘crazed’ rogue leader now sits in Washington not Tehran

The Zero Carbon Bill is currently before select committee. While its targets are weak, its a generally sensible bill that promises to estab...

Local body elections are underway, which is causing people to look at local government for once. And many of us don't like what we see. ...

The government is trialling a free school lunch programme : The Government has launched a trial free lunch in schools programme which it ex...

That is the only way to describe Boris Johnson's request to suspend the UK parliament to prevent it from voting on Brexit (or voting hi...

For the past decade or more the government has been looking at water issues, trying to find better ways of allocating it and of protecting o...