No Right Turn

Henry Kissinger is finally dead . Good fucking riddance. While Americans loved him, he was a war criminal, responsible for most of the atroc...

We already know that national plans to boost smoking rates to collect more tobacco tax so they can give huge tax-cuts to mega-landlords . Bu...

One of the big underlying problems in our political system is the prevalence of short-term thinking, most usually seen in the periodic massi...

National is promising to bring back offshore oil and gas drilling. Naturally, the Greens have organised a petition campaign to try and stop ...

One of the threats in the National - ACT - NZ First coalition agreements was to extend the term of Parliament to four years, reducing our op...

So, after weeks of negotiations, we finally have a government, with a three-party cabinet and a time-sharing deputy PM arrangement. Newsroom...

When we think of the causes of climate change, we tend to think of cars, power plants, factories, or (in Aotearoa) fields of cows - dirty, s...

After a month of watching Israel bomb hospitals and murder children and threaten starvation , ethnic cleansing , and nuclear strikes in rev...

When the UK opened a new coalmine last year , they were warned that it would damage their international reputation and give cover for other ...

When Chris Hipkins put a wealth tax back on the table after losing the election, I called him weak, irresolute, and deceitful , and pointed ...

Six years ago Catalans braved police batons and rubber bullets to vote overwhelmingly for independence in a referendum . The Spanish regime ...

We've known for a while that Labour has a bullying problem. Meka Whaitiri. Gaurav Sharma. Kiri Allen. Shanan Halbert. Mostly, they bully...

Last year, the Republican Supreme Court overturned the longstanding Roe v. Wade precedent, allowing Republican states to state banning abor...

Back in July, then-Prime Minister Chris Hipkins put paid to any hope of a progressive Aotearoa, ruling out wealth, land, or capital gains ta...

If you've used the Official Information Act for any length of time, you will have had an agency egregiously violate the law: ignore your...

The quarterly labour market statistics were released this morning, showing that unemployment had risen to 3.9%. So, at the end of their ter...

When the then-Labour government set our emissions budgets back in 2021, it deliberately set itself a lowball target for the first budget per...

Another day, another IPCA report finding that the police are protecting their own. This case is about a police dog-handler who ordered his d...

One of the few legitimate functions of the SIS is security vatting: making sure the public servants we trust with sensitive information are ...

RNZ reports that the police's use of automated number plate recognition (ANPR) is finally being challenged in court : Police use of f...