No Right Turn

What does National's "three strikes" policy look like in practice? Seven year sentences for bottom-pinching : A man who grabb...

Over on the NZ Constitution site, Morgan Godfrey nails what the real "symbolism" of the monarchy is: inherited wealth and power : ...

US President-elect Donald Trump has made it clear that he doesn't believe in climate change , claiming that it was "created by and ...

Last year, the government tried to get equal pay off the political agenda by establishing a Joint Working Group on Pay Equity. Unfortunately...

The Independent today has an interesting piece about Sweden and its culture of working less . Opening by pointing out that the Swedes regar...

In August 2014, Fijian police arrested Vilikesa Soko in connection with a robbery. They then beat and raped him to death . Yesterday, eight ...

Last week, under cover of a major earthquake, the government announced it was spending $20 billion on new toys for the defence force . New f...

Our government subsidises bad employers by giving them easy access to cheap migrant labour , allowing them to escape the market requirement ...

US President-Elect Donald Trump has announced that he will unsign the TPPA on his first day in office : US President-elect Donald Trump has...

The Herald reports that National MP Chester Borrows is to stand trial for allegedly running over a protestor's foot. Which seems fair ...

Nothing from me today - I'm (hopefully) off to Auckland to be other people at New Zealand's largest larp convention . Normal bloggag...

When UKanians voted for Brexit, a lot of them did it so the UK could "control its own borders". None of them seemed to have antici...

Why do people in the rest of New Zealand hate Aucklanders? Maybe we should ask Phil Goff : Auckland's transport infrastructure funding ...

One of the hallmarks of the Soviet regime ( continued under Putin , of course) was their political use of psychiatry to detain their critic...

Opposition to the death penalty has been a longstanding plank of UK foreign policy. But under the Conservative government, they seem to be g...

For over a decade the Australian government has kidnapped refugees and rendered them to Pacific concentration camps to be mentally tortured ...

While the New Zealand government has set itself a pathetic climate change target (and plans to meet it by cooking the books), the Germans ar...

In October 2014 the police raided the home of political journalist Nicky Hager. The search was later ruled illegal , and now the police have...

The Australian government has reached a deal to send the refugees it is currently imprisoning on Nauru to the USA : Refugees languishing on...

It's official: the TPPA is dead and buried : President Barack Obama’s trade office is largely suspending its effort to pass his signatu...