Both Holden and Harriet M. Welsch are honest witnesses – spies, even – of a world whose imperfections they observe without much empathy, let alone tolerance. One sign of the subversive nature of ...
The Jewish newspaper Haaretz has just published a useful timeline on the escalating abuse that Trump has been directing at the Israeli PM in recent months. As columnist Esther Solomon has pointed out, ...
Currently, this combination of self-doubt and appeasement is being played out in our plans for Defence spending into the early 2030s. None of the increase seems based on any rational assessment of ...
In the wake of the enormous success of The Incredible Journey, Burnford could easily have retired to some gated community in Florida. Instead, she made her own forays into the natural wilderness and ...
If our executive branch had a backbone between them, they should have rejected the “free loading” jibe. New Zealand and the rest of the world are not “ freeloading.” We are all paying a high and ...
According to Finance Minister Nicola Willis, trashing the public service (“an old clunky system” says Willis, a “make work scheme” says Christopher Luxon, “a job creation scheme” says Chris Bishop) is ...
Late last year, our resident Hollywood titan James Cameron got a good deal of publicity for his opposition on principle to the attempted sale of Warners to Netflix, and to the threat that the ...
The Werewolf series on classic children’s books continues this week with the bedtime favourite Goodnight Moon, and the brief life of the tragic genius who wrote it. Right up until the final editorial ...
The Luxon government won the last election by claiming that it alone possessed the managerial competence to fix the nation’s cost of living crisis. Three years later it is again patting itself on the ...