As a sop to Trump, the rulers of Iran agreed to postpone its planned executions of protesters, for a few weeks at least. For all the weasel words of compassion and solidarity with the brave people of ...
Plainly, age had not mellowed the ability of Winston Peters to take offence on grounds not visible to ordinary mortals. Yesterday, Peters felt so miffed by an imaginary slight that he delivered a ...
If the Gehry/Athfield design had been accepted, Te Papa would have been Gehry’s next major architectural project to come on stream after Guggenheim Bilbao. For that reason alone, the unveiling of Te ...
The extremely weird nature of the US assault on Venezuela is becoming more apparent by the day. This hasn’t been the usual US imperial conquest where one regime gets kicked out, some wealthy ...
On December 5th, Frank Gehry died at the age of 96. That’s a reason to recall one of the great wasted opportunities in New Zealand’s […] ...
In the wake of Winston Peters lame response to the US attack on Venezuela, its almost enough to make one yearn for the good old days when Murray McCully was our Foreign Minister. Here’s the gist of ...
Decades ago, Alexander Cockburn wrote a column pointing out that the true believers in the power and precision of the defence industry’s latest weaponry tend to be (a) their gullible government ...
Reportedly, the on again, off again debate between Ruth Richardson and Nicola Willis may be on again. Fabolous. Nothing can help us better understand a wildly contentious issue than having someone ...
If something isn’t really broken, no wonder people feel suspicious when government promises to “fix” it to the potential benefit of corporate interests. In 2011, Parliament passed legislation that ...
For people blessed with privilege, their head start becomes so normalised that the advantages of wealth, better education, good housing, better healthcare, white skin and maleness are invisible to ...
So asset sales are back on the agenda, and will be dependent only on the coalition government getting re-elected next year. Yikes. Right wing governments are forever selling off the assets created by ...
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