No Right Turn

Israel's Supreme Court has upheld Israel's controversial Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law , which denies Palestinians any chan...

So, the Finance and Expenditure Committee looks likely to drag former TVNZ chairman Craig Boyce over the coals over his emails. This is dee...

What is Tony Blair's most urgent policy task? Contrary to what you might think, it is not fixing Britain's NHS, or ending child pov...

The long shadow of the United States

Hamilton voters have voted 60-40 to reject STV and retain the bloc-vote in electing local councillors. It's a disappointing decision ...

There's a perfect illustration of the problem with the 5% threshold in today's Herald : according to National Party environment spok...

Rumour in Washington is that Bush's brain, Karl Rove, will shortly be indicted in the Valerie Plame leak case on charges of perjury, ob...

Back when it was first revealed that the Bush Administration was engaged in engaging in widespread domestic wiretapping in clear violation ...

Tomorrow will be the first anniversary of the Andijan massacre , in which Uzbek soldiers murdered an estimated 700 protestors. Things began...

From the look of this , it seems the State Services Commission has identified the person responsible for leaking the broadband cabinet paper...

For those of you interested in constitutional matters, over at European Tribune, DoDo has a graphical guide to constitutional systems . It...

Yesterday, the International Energy Agency released its five yearly review of New Zealand's energy policies , in which they expressed d...

Between 1965 and 1971, the British government committed a vile act of ethnic cleansing. Their ally, the USA, wanted to build a military bas...

Last month I blogged about the reported decline in petrol consumption as consumers reacted to high prices. One of my worries was that anec...

This is the third post in a series on the government's Immigration Act Review Discussion paper [PDF]. The review aims to completely rew...

The latest Household Labour Force Survey has been released, and it shows that the economy is still banging along, despite the Reserve Bank...

The UK's Attorney-General, Lord Goldsmith, has added his voice to the chorus calling for the closure of the US detention camp at Guanta...

The Health Committee has called for submissions on the Human Tissue (Organ Donation) Amendment Bill . Two copies, by Friday, 14 July 2006 ,...

A policeman’s lot is not a happy one

Kate Wilkinson's Resource Management (Security for Costs) Amendment Bill has been drawn from the ballot. It's not online quite yet (...