May 20, 2026: Another Minuteman III intercontinental missile was fired by USAF Global Strike Command from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, and splashed down some 6,700 kilometres away, ...

Regardless, any criticism of these atrocities gets routinely labelled as antisemitism by Israel’s apologists. In New Zealand, their lobbying pressure appears to be working. These days for example, you ...

In The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle this playful sense of dis-orientation begins with the very first sentence of the book: ‘Not every thirteen year old girl is accused of murder, brought to ...

The Auditor General’s damning report on the school lunch programme– and the litany of callous bungles it has uncovered – should require associate education minister David Seymour to be offering his ...

To no-one’s surprise, the fragile 60 day truce that began on June 17 has already been broken by attacks on Iran by the US, by attacks by Iran on US proxies like Kuwait and Bahrain, and by continued ...

This week, the Werewolf series of essays on classic children’s books features Susan Cooper’s 1973 novel The Dark Is Rising. The antlered horseman on the cover of The Dark is Rising is a depiction of ...

Political myths die hard. For decades it has been taken on faith – all evidence to the contrary – that those business-savvy National Party types really, really know how to run the economy, just as ...

No doubt, the government’s plan (a) to make KiwiSaver compulsory and (b) significantly increase the contribution rate required of both workers and employers would end up delivering a desirable boost ...

The Werewolf series of essays on classic children’s books continues this week with this story by Avi of murder, mutiny and teenage rebellion on the […] ...

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 ...