It is difficult at this distance to convey the cultural and political weight that developed between 1970 and 1980 around the murders of Jeanette and Harvey Crewe and the framing of Arthur Allan Thomas ...

Former cyclone Lusi wasn't the only wild, hot air over the weekend. That deafening sucking sound you heard was elements of the political right having a massive tantrum because the Judith Collins story ...

The loose monetary policy run by the European Central Bank to the benefit of its sluggish core economies left the more dynamic but capital-poor economies of the periphery to choke on cheap credit. The ...

The Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Act is an inadequate piece of law -- albeit one markedly better than what it was designed to replace -- passed ...

Please welcome Doug Richards to Capture, with a selection of his photographs from the streets of central Auckland. The photographs were all taken in 2011, the year of Our Cup and of Occupy, and many ...

You know how sometimes you read something really stupid on the internet*, it annoys you, and then every time you run across a discussion on the same issue you get reminded of it all over again? That ...

When John Key sneered yesterday that the Labour leadership contest would be "three weeks of reality TV" and "Political Idol, or whatever you want to call it," he clearly meant that in a bad way. The ...

"Let's be clear," it begins, "'multiculturalism' is just Marxist code for anti-Western-white-middle-class-ism. The Marxist one worlders know that to bring in their totalitarian dictatorship they must ...

It's hardly new that for science to play its part in public life, complex and difficult ideas must be communicated to the public. The works of Einstein and Bohr, for example, embodied the strangest ...

Earlier this week, Act Party leader Jamie Whyte notified the world that he had delivered a speech entitled Race has no place in the law and, it seemed, sat back in anticipation of plaudits for his ...

The Dominion Post reports today that the state agencies that spent $1.5 million on psychometric testing last year may have been on shaky legal ground. It might also have added that they're basically ...

The words "secret" and "secrecy" appear seven times in the New Zealand Herald's lead story today, most notably in the headline: 'Top secret: Celebrity arrested in central city'. In the era of ...