No Right Turn

Crooked Timber's John Holbo on Libertarianism, Property Rights and Self-Ownership , which argues that Libertarians' focus on propert...

Another night, another (according to Russel Norman's twitter feed) packed out public meeting in Christchurch about the abolition of thei...

Hizbollah's silence over Scuds speaks volumes to Israel

Tonga's Legislative Assembly has passed a political reform package , increasing the number of people's representatives to 17. While...

Hot on the heels of its decision to build a private prison, the government is now planning on using PPPs for schools . Uunfortunately the me...

Tokelau has declared its exclusive economic zone to be a whale sanctuary . This brings the number of whale sanctuaries in the South Pacific...

Yesterday, the government announced plans to tender for a private company to build a new private prison in South Auckland. The government...

A reader pointed me at a report from the Canadian Information Commissioner on Systemic Issues Affecting Access to Information in Canada [P...

Last night, the Greens organised a public meeting to discuss the government's abolition of democracy in Canterbury . They were expecti...

In November, the world will meet in Cancun, Mexico for the latest round of climate change talks, aimed at agreeing a successor to the Kyoto ...

Chris Trotter returned to crude race-baiting in his weekly column on Friday, with an attack on the Māori seats . Now that they are no longe...

So, not content with privatising ACC, the government are now trying to privatise welfare, with the appointment of a Welfare Working Group to...

Japan has released its catch report on its annual "scientific" whale hunt in the Southern Ocean - and revealed that they killed on...

Last month, 500 opponents of the government's plans to mine on conservation land protested outside Parliament . Next month, they're...

Via In A Strange Land , a horrifying story of how the US (mis)treats visitors to its country . In this case, the victim - a kiwi - escaped ...

last month, Tasmania went to the polls in state elections . The result, thanks to STV, was a hung Parliament, with the Greens holding the b...

In an article for the BBC Magazine, historian Simon Schama reacts to the proposal that New Zealand join Australia. His assessment? "I...

In an opinion piece in the Dominion-Post today, lawyer Richard Ekins points out the most serious problem in the government's "thre...

People concerned about climate change tend to fall into two camps: those who think technology is the problem, and those who see it as also b...

In 2008, it was revealed that the police had engaged in extensive spying on left-wing groups using a bribed undercover informer . They spie...