Luxon is trying to scare those homeless centre-right voters back into line, for fear that a vote for Opportunity will prove to be be a vote for Chris Hipkins and his Bolshevik hordes. With slightly ...

The US health system is widely seen to be the most expensive and least efficient model for public health delivery in the world – yet our own health system is steadily being Americanised without much ...

Curiosity has always been a good friend of creativity. Reportedly, Cynthia Voigt got the idea for Homecoming after looking one day at some kids in a supermarket parking lot, and wondering what would ...

The ‘external’ story is about the dilemma that faces the field-mouse Mrs Frisby when her son Timothy comes down with pneumonia and needs to rest at home. Alas, this is just when Farmer Fitzgibbon ...

For no good reason, the right of citizens to both enrol and vote on election day has been abolished. Citizens must now have registered to vote at least 13 days before election day. People have also ...

Well, the football World Cup is over and the good guys won, geo-politically speaking. Meaning: Spain was the first European country to officially join the case that South Africa brought before the ...

Earlier this week, when Christopher Luxon ruled out forming any government with Opportunity, it was like the ugly kid in class suddenly announcing that he’s […] ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...