12 December
The ugly reality of US tax cuts
To the rich the spoils, writes Jane Young.
03 December
Fall-out from the leak
fairy
To be surprised by the contents of the Wikileaks deluge is to be
either negligent of international goings on, or naively trustful of
governments, or both, writes Jane Young.
12 Novmeber
Republicans, be careful what you wish for
The Republicans may still be in full victory dance
mode, but the realities of their new Tea Party compatriots should
scare the hell out of them, writes Jane Young.
8 November
Smacking court decision irrelevant
Sue Bradford talks about why James Mason's acquittal
has nothing to do with Section 59.
8 October
How to lose votes and alienate
people
Mike Williams on the Auckland Super City
election.
24 September
The wobbly world of Fashion Week
Tim Watkin attends his first Fashion Week show.
17 September
Earthquake fascism and prostitution
madness
This week I was shocked to see the earthquake recovery
legislation rushed through the House with support from all
political parties.
3 September
Muddle East Peace
As the players in the latest round of Middle East Peace
Talks assemble in Washington later this week, the issues
confronting them only seem to have grown in the two years they have
been on hold, so are they just going through the motions?
3 September
Five things NZ can learn from the Aussie
election
With the Australian election result still hanging in the balance,
what can political strategists on this side of the Tasman learn?
Five tips, plus the insight of one old man.
20 August
How is a brothel for women
"progress"?
Eleanor Black looks at how Pam Corkery's proposed brothel
for women is being billed as another triumph for female
equality.
23 July
But is it art? No, it's child
abuse
Deborah Coddington looks at how the 20th century New York
pop art brigade and its middle class sexist followers are too
hypocritical to stand up and identify child abuse when they see
it.
Friday July 16: John Key to announce election
soon - I hope
Andrew Geddis says New Zealand should fix its election
date in law. Otherwise, John Key needs to tell us when the 2011
election will be held ... and soon.
Friday July 16: Dragging Iran out of the
Stone Age
Jane Young says the world needs to condemn Iran over its plans to
stone to death a woman 'convicted' of adultery.
Friday July 2: G8/G20 leaves Canada with a big
hangover
Contrary to popular belief, Canada's largest city,
Toronto, survived the G20 summit, but the cost of the weekend
gathering of elites should make any future host wince and
worry.
Friday June 18: BP slick exposes NZ safety
gulf
The US government can barrel oil giant BP into stumping
up $28 billion to clean up the mess created by its disastrous deep
water oil drilling operation in the Gulf of Mexico but David
Beatson asks: Could you see that happening here?
Friday June 11: Dreaming of speeding with Friedrich
Hayek
Andrew Geddis says there's what the law says. Then there's the law
that gets applied. Why do we view the former so differently to the
latter?
Friday May 21: The way you do the things you
do
Andrew Geddis looks at three decisions from the Supreme Court this
week.
Friday 14 May: Gordon Brown: My part in his
downfall
So farewell to Brown, the man who never won an election. And hello
to David Cameron, a new prince in troubled times
April 26 April: With nary a whisper of drama,
signifying much
Pita Sharples cut a fine figure at the UN. But what, if
anything, did it all mean?
April 13: Say bye bye, Mr Karzai
Afghanistan's president Hamid Karzai has been threatening
to join the Taliban. He should be encouraged to do it and we should
leave his country quickly, says Pundit's David Beatson
March 26: When you ain't got nothing, you got nothing
to lose
Andrew Geddis says David Bain will be lucky to get
compensation.
March 15: The anti-whaling ship of
fools
Claire Browning says shame on Labour spokesperson Chris Carter and
partisan blog The Standard for using anti-whaling diplomacy for
short-term political gain.
March 05: National pride: Great country, ok
government
Claire Browning says she's found the missing Key to democracy.
February 19: John Key - "National park
miner"
John Key expects more mining in Crown land, which includes our
national parks. Is this going to be his year for living
dangerously?
February 5: Dishonourable discharge for
"Don't ask, don't tell"
The US has begun the long process of overturning law that required
gay soldiers to lie about their sexual orientation. But overturning
the 'Don't ask, don't tell' policy promises to be a nasty, dirty
fight
January 29: Willie Apiata, "Jesus Guns" and
other secrets
War hero Willie Apiata is back on the frontline. New Zealand troops
are armed with so-called "Jesus guns". Our troops are training
Afghan soldiers and police in counter-insurgency operations. Now,
why shouldn't we know that?
January 22: Outflanked by a Cosmo
centrefold
The brain in the White House appears to have been outsmarted by the
brawn of a nude centrefold.
December 14: Class warfare returns in the
UK
David Cameron has had four strong years. Now Gordon Brown
is playing the posh card, and no wonder, it may just give him half
a chance.
December 4: The annual Christmas pressie
scramble
Eleanor Black asks what to do about the perennial Christmas
gift problem? Sorry, no answers provided here-unless you're in the
market for a cupcake car.
November 27: Welcome to Planet
Palin
Sarah Palin's Going Rogue is a campaign book delightfully free of
boring old policy and so is a sure fire dog whistle to her adoring
base. It reinforces why she should never be President, but who the
heck does the Republican Party have as an alternative candidate
vaguely as charismatic as Caribou Barbie?
November 20: Is Obama dithering while
Afghanistan burns?
President Obama's sitcky-outy ears are getting a fair
bashing for his perceived dithering over what to do next in
Afghanistan. But maybe we'll be better off for his serious
evaluation of the situation as opposed to what happened with
Vietnam ... and then Iraq
November 13: Mr Netanyahu, tear down this
wall
Humanity seems to be destined to repeat its mistakes over and over
and over again.
November 6: Mums share far too much
information
Mummy blogging is so yesterday - now new parents are posting their
birth videos online.
October 30: The price of
religion
Brian Tamaki convinced 700 men to "pledge allegiance" to him
at a Destiny Church conference. Makes the tithing and chastity
rings look pretty harmless, doncha think?
October 23: From Power to the people
So far, Simon Power is doing the right thing by the
people and their constitution. Rodney Hide? Not so much, says
Andrew Geddis.
October 16: At what price
peace?
Obama needed the Nobel Peace prize like another hole in the head,
because it is effectively a set of virtual handcuffs on a President
mired in war and global unrest and don't his opponents know
it.
October 9: David Young - How not to sell your
nation to tourists
And you thought John Key's bit on Letterman was a sad attempt at
scaring up tourists. In Denmark the state tourism organisation
filmed a fake YouTube appeal in which a hot Dane woman admitted her
fling with a foreign visitor produced a child.
October 2: Eleanor Black - Government girls
dish it
Only 49 sleeps till Sarah Palin's book is released in the US,
y'all! A mere four months after announcing she would write a
memoir about her incredibly short political career-and presumably
her role in sinking John McCain's credibility once and for all-the
most famous hockey mom of them all is readying herself for the book
tour.
September 25: Andrew Geddis - A town by any
other name
To "H" or not to "H", that is the question. Or ... a town by any
other name... I happened to be in Brisbane, safely ensconced in
air-conditioned comfort, when the NZ Geographic Board/Nga Pou
Taunaha o Aotearoa issued its decision that the official name for
the town-formerly-known-as-Wanganui should be Whanganui. Yet I
swear I could hear Michael Laws' pop his top even from that
distance.
