Left- and right-wing politicians and commentators in Europe are grappling with the lessons to be learned from the terrorist attack in Norway -- and what it means for debate about immigration.
Read MoreSeeing the Forest for the Trees
An examination of the strange suggestion, spread by the Green Party, that our native ecosystems are at a greater risk than those of any other country on Earth except for Burma.
Read MoreFive Years After Society's Destruction
The first civil unions occurred in 2005. Five years later, as we're overtaken on gay marriage rights by Argentina, Mexico, and other countries: did we fight the right battle?
Read MoreIs Rodney Hide a Bully?
A short history of the ‘primitive combat' that is practiced internally by the ACT Caucus.
Read MoreThe Happiest Writer on Pundit
David Young is happier even than Sue Bradford and Deborah Coddington were to leave parliament. More satisfied than Nicky Hager was when Don Brash stepped down. He is chirpier even than… Tim Watkin.
Read MoreThe other news from Europe
The drama in London this week meant that the Euro-zone crisis received relatively little coverage or commentary. It's big news – and what happens next could be even bigger.
Read MoreDispatch from Copenhagen
What's Fun about a Summit to Solve Global Warming?
Read MoreHow 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
Read MoreRemember Hans Kupka: Waikato's new nazi controversy
The case of a "Holocaust Denier on Campus" offered Waikato University some important, difficult lessons. Did it take them onboard?
Read MoreGreenland gets Warmer - But Not Greener
Melting ice provides Greenland with an economic lifeline. Should it grab hold?
Read MoreYou Can't Beat Wellington on a Good Day
Listening to the public might be a drag for local government, but it's a necessity, especially when the waterfront's at stake
Read MoreRecieving spelling lessons from British freinds
Education bureaucrats want to dump the only spelling rule that I can remember
Read MoreWhy publish 'Veitch Breakup' Story? And many other media questions
A whole bunch of things in the New Zealand media and blogs are quite perplexing to watch from the other side of the world... For example, what's with the Kiwi media's swine flu excitement?
Read MoreIt's no Eurovision, but it kind of matters
And the winner is... It's time for the results of elections affecting 491 million people. Should anyone in NZ care?
Read MoreNot too late to avoid a political expenses scandal
We have seen Russel Norman's taxi bill. Now all of his colleagues in parliament need to show us theirs – and tidy up the rules while they are at it
Read MoreGood Detective Work Relies on Good Detectives
You do not have to be a conspiracy theorist to believe that the police's Brash "stolen emails" inquiry review is a good thing
Read MoreDoing it for themselves?
Is the Minister of Women's Affairs betraying women by urging her ministry to engage more actively with men?
Read MoreTrust the media. No, really
An attempt to promote an old-fashioned idea: that being a journalist is a good thing
Read MoreGetting Tied Up in Knots Over a Plastic Bag Tax
John Key shot down Nick Smith's idea of a plastic bag tax, much to the delight of the citizens of Palmerston North. But should he have given it a bit more thought?
Read MoreKiwi jobs for Kiwi workers
Sadly, New Zealand unions are delivering the same rhetoric as nationalist political parties worldwide
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