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 ...
Briefly a member of the war cabinet overseeing the Gaza war, [Eisenkot] has attacked Netanyahu for bowing too readily to U.S. demands for a ceasefire in ​Lebanon to settle the Iran conflict. He calls ...
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 ...
The Werewolf series on classic children’s books continues this week with “The Indian in the Cupboard” by Lynne Reid Banks. Usually, fantasy offers a means of escape, a way of bending the rules of ...
Every three years around this time, the election campaign begins to feel a bit like the old carnival Ghost Train. All aboard. After the lurch into darkness and after careening around the first corners ...
The Werewolf series of essays on classic children’s books continues this week with Harriet The Spy by Louise Fitzhugh. Both Holden and Harriet M. Welsch are honest witnesses – spies, even – of a world ...