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Former cyclone Lusi wasn't the only wild, hot air over the weekend. That deafening sucking sound you heard was elements of the political right having a massive tantrum because the Judith Collins story ...
It is difficult at this distance to convey the cultural and political weight that developed between 1970 and 1980 around the murders of Jeanette and Harvey Crewe and the framing of Arthur Allan Thomas ...
They say sunlight is the best disinfectant. It always seemed like a self-explanatory concept: Wrongdoing is exposed, wrongdoers scuttle back into the shadows. But what happens when you crank up the ...
The loose monetary policy run by the European Central Bank to the benefit of its sluggish core economies left the more dynamic but capital-poor economies of the periphery to choke on cheap credit. The ...
The Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Act is an inadequate piece of law -- albeit one markedly better than what it was designed to replace -- passed ...
"Let's be clear," it begins, "'multiculturalism' is just Marxist code for anti-Western-white-middle-class-ism. The Marxist one worlders know that to bring in their totalitarian dictatorship they must ...
It's hardly new that for science to play its part in public life, complex and difficult ideas must be communicated to the public. The works of Einstein and Bohr, for example, embodied the strangest ...
Please welcome Doug Richards to Capture, with a selection of his photographs from the streets of central Auckland. The photographs were all taken in 2011, the year of Our Cup and of Occupy, and many ...
In restoring our earthquake-damaged house, I’ve come across a few interesting old items. In the attic we discovered a group photo of the Avonside Tennis Team of 1929: ‘Matches Played, 8; Matches Won, ...
When John Key sneered yesterday that the Labour leadership contest would be "three weeks of reality TV" and "Political Idol, or whatever you want to call it," he clearly meant that in a bad way. The ...
It's become a bit of a cliche - bad photos of food on the internet. You know the sort - the enthusiastic photo of someone's dinner in progress that looks like it's already been digested. But no one ...
Firstly: Kim Dotcom did not "admit to hacking" at the Internet-Mana campaign launch today, as both network news shows claimed this evening. His "teenage hacker made good" story is Dotcom Bio 101. It's ...