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From Colin Espiner’s blog: The Government has been dying for National to make this kind of error for months, but when it came […]

  In being ‘economical’ with the truth, Gordon Copeland struggled with what some would think was a pretty easy biblical edict – don’t […]

At Columbia University on Monday, the President of Iran, Mr Ahmadinejad said homosexuality did not exist in his country: “In Iran we don’t […]

Newsweek’s Steven Levy does a quick video preview of the OLPC laptop, writing that “The $100 (well, $200) laptop is ready to change […]

From Colin Espiner’s blog, his comments on English’s “gaffe” about privatisation: One of the problems of being a party without any policies is […]

God has spoken this week. It’s clear that he doesn’t want Gordon Copeland, Brian Tamaki or Taito Phillip Field representing him on Earth. […]

Colin Espiner seems to think the government’s done ok with its climate change policy: While I can’t confess to yet having had time […]

From The Guardian: It isn’t easy being green. You have to turn the thermostat down to a chilly 18C in winter, spend ages […]

An American doctoral student has found that there may be a silver lining when it comes to higher petrol prices – they might […]

Colin Espiner writes in the Press that “Prime Minister Helen Clark has become a polarising figure in New Zealand politics, but voters have […]

Earlier this week I posted on National’s attempted inoculation of the “nuclear issue”. Chris Trotter’s just written a related analysis of Key’s comments […]

Feeling guilty after watching An Inconvenient Truth? Want to do your bit to help save the planet but don’t have the cash to […]

A reader just sent me a link to a piece in The Guardian entitled: “First world results on a third world budget”. It’s […]

The LA Times has a story today about Freegans – “a growing subculture of people who have reduced their spending habits and live […]