No Right Turn

Experimental metaphysics Via Pointless and absurd , word of an experiment which has apparently disproved both the Copenhagen and Many-W...

Is NZUSA writing Peter Dunne's press releases? Peter Dunne: Debt punishes our brightest and best

Middle Class an Endangered Species? (part 2) My Right has taken issue with my post yesterday and missed my point. Regardless of whether ...

Poor political management Nanaia Mahuta may resign from Parliament This is poor political management on Clark's behalf. She...

General of the day The US has replaced the Republican Guard general appointed to control Fallujah, saying that he would not pass the ve...

The bottom of the barrel New Zealand employers seeking staff are down to the "crud at the bottom of the barrel" , according to...

Middle Class an Endangered Species? In some ways I can identify with the family in the Sunday Star Times article. I will turn 28 this mo...

New Kiwi blogs Aaron Bhatnagar , who I remember from my days on nz.pols. Also, Rodney Hide has got in on the act, and has started his...

Foxes: Henhouse Abuses Rare Billmon really has a way with words, doesn't he?

Saving the middle class Another interesting series in the Sunday Star Times, this time on the plight of the middle class and the demise...

Sweeping racism under the rug The mayor of Christchurch is now opposing plans to hold an anti-racism, "pro-harmony" march in ...

New Fisk The "Good Guys" Who Can Do No Wrong

Safe Truck-driver Thomas Hamill, taken hostage in Iraq almost a month ago, has escaped .

Global warming could soon make Antarctica the only place to live, says chief British scientist You always wonder if the scientist has r...

ACT of madness? Prebble's decision to resign as leader may well be the only thing that saves it from being swallowed up by a resur...

Rotten to the core The New Yorker has published details from a leaked army report on the torture at Abu Ghraib, which finds widespread ...

Legalities A comment on Political Animal suggests that this is an opportunity to prove the superiority of western democracy - because: ...

Another outrage Several years ago, the Macedonian army killed a group of "foreign militants" , apparantly an Al-Qaeda cell. T...

Orwellian In civilised parts of the world, it's May Day - a day to celebrate worker's struggles. In the US, it's Loyalty Da...

More on torture and abuse in Iraq The US torture scandal has spread to the UK , with the Daily Mirror publishing photographs of a Britis...