Every Friday, Werewolf is re-publishing some essays about classic children’s book, that I began writing in 2009. This essay on Badger’s Parting Gifts has been slightly updated: ...
The world has been quietly hoping and praying that the Republicans will lose control of the lower House or Senate – or both – in November’s mid-term elections, since this would put restraints on ...
Pauline Hanson is one of the few politicians able to make Winston Peters look like a team player. Hanson’s “my way or the highway” dominance of her party is, of course, one of the things that her ...
About 15 years ago on Werewolf, I started writing a series of articles about classic children’s books. Over the next few months, these articles will be re-published here, every Friday. The series ...
About 15 years ago on Werewolf, I started writing a series of articles about classic children’s books. Over the next few months, these articles will […] ...
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 ...
ACT also aims to charge a $6 a day “infrastructure surcharge” on all temporary work visa holders, and to exclude all residence visa holders from welfare assistance for five years from time of arrival.
In his tilt at the leadership last November, Chris Bishop plainly forgot Omar’s excellent advice from The Wire: “If you come at the king, better not miss.” He’s now paid the price. Yet in the wake of ...
The Chinese Embassy is right. The recent joint statement by Australia and New Zealand condemning China’s actions in the South China Sea reads like a relic from a bygone colonial era. A weirdly ...
The recently infamous “I’m the CEO/ Your job is the Prime Minister” exchange between Christopher Luxon and Tova O’Brien should be a defining moment in Luxon’s downward trajectory as the leader of the ...
The National Party caucus seems to have a death wish. In increasingly “uncertain and volatile times,” it has placed all its bets on the guy who has been seriously underperforming in more certain, less ...