No Right Turn

Last week, we learned that the government wanted more money from state-owned electricity companies. Today, we're told that this won...

The first thing I saw this morning on BBC was the news that the Seattle Post-Intelligencer is ceasing physical publication and going online...

The CIA's "enhanced interrogation" techniques "constituted torture" , according to the Red Cross. As the internatio...

I'd like to post on the outcome of the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security's inquiry into SIS spying on Green MP Keith L...

When Heather Roy let slip last month that the government's razor gang has been instructed to slash 10% from departmental budgets , Bill ...

The government is at it again, spinning its non-stimulus by announcing "$1 billion more for state highways" . But when you dig i...

Back in 2006, Helen Clark showed some vision for once and announced a bold plan to make New Zealand carbon neutral . Unfortunately, the rea...

Last month, gender equality took a dramatic step backward in this country when the National government shitcanned two inquiries into pay equ...

Green MP Jeanette Fitzsimons has an interesting post over on Frogblog about the prospects for the ETS. When National established a committe...

The West should feel shame over its collusion with torturers The mysterious case of Mohamed al-Dainy

ACT has announced that it will allow its MPs a free vote on all issues other than confidence and supply . This is obviously a move brought ...

John Key's answer to the massive hole in regional transport budgets created by his decision to scrap the regional petrol tax? Enron tri...

Six years ago, the British government went to war on the basis of a lie - Tony Blair's "dodgy dossier" which infamously claime...

Remember Sayed Pervez Kambaksh ? In 2007, he was sentenced to death in Afghanistan for distributing a paper to his fellow journalism stude...

One of Labour's real achievements in office was the regional petrol tax. Ostensibly sold as a transport policy, aimed at giving regiona...

The other day, in a discussion about the re-introduction of knighthoods, Jim Anderton sought leave to table "a copy of the A R D Fairb...

There are any number of important public policy issues the media should be highlighting for the public at the moment: the economy, private p...

BBC: Rich list hit by economic crisis The financial crisis is taking its toll on the world's richest people, wiping 332 names off Forb...

During the election, National vowed to "cut red tape". Unfortunately, it seems they have a very funny idea of what "red tape...

The government introduced its Corrections (Contract Management of Prisons) Amendment Bill , which would allow US-style private prisons, toda...