Government considers Bangkok rescue; Key hints at business tax holiday; Recession could be over next year, forecasters say; All Blacks to meet their nemesis after 2011 World Cup draw made; and more
Read MoreOde To Hunter S. Thompson
Jon wallows in sickly misery and nostalgia with Hunter S. Thompson as his only guide
Read MoreNational News Brief, Monday December 1
Answers in the Air New Zealand crash; New Zealand homes are making us sick; debt collectors want law change; HIV on the rise; climate change good for melanoma rates; Andrew Little's political ambitions
Read MoreCanada's new Conservative minority government on the brink of collapse
After just six weeks Canada's Conservative minority may be brought down by its own hubris
Read MoreRestless, energetic, and still learning
Under-appreciated here in New Zealand, 75-year-old sculptor Tony Stones is continuing to create ambitious bronze works in England and China
Read MoreNZ fiddles on climate change while the world burns
It's deja vu all over again as the Emissions Trading Scheme is placed on hold so that National, Act and their business supporters consider the merits of alternatives... again
Read MoreAs the US power vacuum sucks up billions, let's fast-forward to inauguration day.
With the US President pardoning a Thanksgiving turkey while the President-elect gets to grip with the financial crisis, serious questions are being asked about who should actually be running the country
Read MoreAfghanistan III – unfinished business
Phil Goff has left some messy unfinished business for his successors to the Foreign Affairs and Defence portfolios after nearly three years of fruitless negotiations with the Karzai government
Read MoreWorse than death or taxes
Back in a tick...
Read MoreNational News Brief, Tuesday November 25
Banks: Interest rates may be cut by more than one percent; Key at odds with other APEC leaders; flooding in the South Island; the most popular Kiwi movie; and more
Read MoreKnights & Dames
Jon dispenses with aroha to explore John Key's retrograde plan to restore knighthoods
Read MoreNational News Brief, Monday November 24
NZ commits to further trade talks; Education Ministry seeks compensation for leaky schools; $450 million drop in lamb exports; plastics recycling system misleading; get your life insurance from Tony's Tyre Service; and more
Read MoreChange isn't ageist, it's vital
Deborah Hill Cone's attack on my change analysis in today's Herald misses the point entirely, and seems to pine for a little bit of good ol' fashioned sexism and racism
Read MoreThose French farmers are at it again
Stories of the EU "overhauling" its farm subsidies are coming off the wires today. If only they were true
Read MoreIt's a giddy time... for now
National is enjoying the onset of what should be a long honeymoon. Are there any black clouds looming?
Read MoreWorld News Brief, Friday November 21
Stockmarkets fall across Europe, Asia and US; Chinese unemployment rates look "grim"; Peru concludes FTA with China; EU shifts policy on farm subsidies; and more
Read MoreNational News Brief, Friday November 21
Stricter bail laws by Christmas, new prison by 2011; families of violent kids to get parenting courses; John Key earns more than Kevin Rudd; new faces in Labour's shadow cabinet; Otago's "all white" cricket promo; and more
Read MoreThe high cost of staying alive
If the government can rush to fund Herceptin, why not Tarceva, a drug for those suffering from more lethal lung cancer? One patient who's paying $2,000 per month just to stay alive speaks out
Read MoreThe big tanks of the US auto industry running on empty
The American auto industry car tsars took their corporate jets to Washington to plead poverty, but the Big Three's warnings of catastrophic job losses haven't convinced senators to ride to their rescue
Read MoreNew Zealand's 'populist chic'
Pundit reader Kate Hannah muses on anti-intellectualism in the United States and New Zealand
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