No Right Turn

In 1998, in the wake of the Paremoremo Prison riot, the Department of Corrections established the "Behaviour Management Regime". P...

The SFO has finally reported back on NZ First's dodgy foundation, and charged two people with "obtaining by deception" . They...

Transport was responsible for 21% of our greenhouse gas emissions in 2017 . Its our second-biggest source of pollution after agriculture. An...

The list of Spanish abuses of Catalonia's democracy is long. When Catalans voted for independence, Spanish riot police seized ballot box...

Over in Switzerland, the racist "People's Party" tried to have a Brexit-style referendum on ending freedom of movement with th...

Today, 28 September, is International Right To Know Day (or, as the UN puts it, the "International Day for Universal Access to Informat...

Back in July, when foreign polluters (and archaeological criminals ) Rio Tinto announced they planned to close Tiwai Point, I was dancing on...

Farmers are whining again about being expected to clean up their act : Canterbury farmers want politicians to stop painting them as climate...

When someone commits trespass, assault with a weapon, and kidnapping, you'd expect them to be prosecuted, right? But apparently the rule...

Today President Trump once again refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses the US election . Coincidentally, The Atlanti...

That's the only way to describe the SIS, who - like their British counterparts - decided to look the other way on child abuse : The SIS...

On March 13, three plainclothes police officers kicked in Breonna Taylor's door under a no-knock warrant targeting another person. When ...

China has increased its climate change ambition, and set a target to be carbon-neutral by 2060 : China will reach carbon neutrality before ...

Back in 2017, the UK announced that it would ban the sale of new fossil fuel vehicles by 2040 . Its a basic climate change measure, aimed at...

For the past decade, Australia has had a racist, anti-refugee policy. Those claiming refugee status are imprisoned without trial and left to...

New Zealand has a serious homelessness problem, due to skyrocketing rents and a lack of state houses. One of the ways we stick a band-aid on...

Who's causing our skyrocketing emissions? As with most of our other problems, It's the rich : The wealthiest 1% of the world’s popu...

The border closure and resulting lack of foreign slave-workers is driving the fishing industry out of business : One fishing company is eff...

In case anyone needed further convincing, there's another example today of why we need cameras on fishing boats: reported seabird bycatc...

The National Party has spent the last six months acting horrified at the cost of supporting people through the pandemic and banging on about...