This new single “Dashboard Mary” from the London band Modern Woman builds and builds to a dissonant climax. Along the way, the video makes use of Stephen King horror-lite imagery to tell its ...
It is also why New Zealand continues to condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, while brushing aside Russia’s rationale for doing so. We didn’t let the Kremlin decide for itself. To state the obvious, ...
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 ...
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 ...
New Zealand likes to portray itself as a steadfast champion of international law. (We’re the brave little country that stands up for what’s right). In […] ...
In the wake of the IPCA report, it is easy to understand why the politicians have been so willing to endorse terms like “cover up” and “ corruption.” It is convenient to explain what went wrong in ...
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 ...
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 ...
Tomorrow is a long time, as Bob Dylan once said, and while Dylan wasn’t singing about our prospects of economic recovery, the mood of frustrated anticipation seems apt. Supposedly, economic growth is ...
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 ...
As usual, last weekend’s New Zealand First conference in Palmerston North was very much about the Dear Leader. Alas, and like many other gentlemen of advancing years, Winston Peters has turned into ...
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