When defeated armies are retreating, they always lay mines behind them if they have time. The mines slow pursuit, they may inflict casualties on the victors, and they give the losers something purpose...
Some things are plain. Under our current system, good candidates for council get elected. Poor candidates do not. If you are broadly supported and respected by the community, you get elected. If the c...
Re: ‘Undermining democracy', January 13 story.
It is clear from this “one-sided” article, obviously sanctioned by the editor of this newspaper, that he and all the rest of the Maori ward supporters (i...
Triage is always crude and messy, and there are always mistakes, but the goal is to save as many lives as possible in an emergency where there are not enough medical resources to save everybody. That ...
We must already know what the New Zealand Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care will reveal about the Catholic Church in New Zealand. That's because it has been said before, time and time aga...
The recent war between Armenia and Azerbaijan made sense, in an old-fashioned way. The dispute was about territory — borders that were drawn almost a century ago by a Russian dictator, Joseph Stalin —...
If I have to read one more hand-wringing article about the “crisis of American democracy” and what it means for the world, I'm going to retch.
Most of these latest articles do point out that Joe Biden...
A British judge has finally rejected the US attempt to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and jail him forever in a high-security “supermax” prison.
The US government has worked quite hard to ...
“We are putting a final end to the fossil era,” said Denmark's climate minister, Dan Jorgensen, last month. What he meant was that the European Union's biggest oil and gas producer is officially getti...
As Britain finally leaves the European Union, 1651 days after the Brexit referendum of 2016, we should try to remember that 48 percent of the turkeys didn't vote for Christmas.
Brexit was not exactly ...