With even less subtlety, Luxon and his National team are also blatantly stealing votes by scrapping one of the most admirable aspects of our democratic system. Namely, the ability to register and to ...

This week’s essay on classic children’s books features Philippa Pearce’s great YA novel about memory and loss. The image of Ely Cathedral is from circa 1881, and depicts the landscape as it was not ...

Decades ago, the Washington Post ran a carton showing White House advisors gibbering in terror backstage as a beaming Ronald Reagan suddenly looked away from the teleprompt and started ad-libbing…oh ...

It will also come with an avoidable number of casualties from within National’s own ranks. Still, the caucus has got only itself to blame for saddling itself with a known liability incapable of ...

True, it may seem weird to try and warn teenagers about the horrors of war by writing them a story about teenagers who kill each other in a TV reality show. Nine times out of ten, you’d end up with ...

The Werewolf essays on classic children’s books focusses this week on Suzanne Collins’ trilogy about war’s on children True, it may seem weird to try […] ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ultimately, The Incredible Journey is worth admiring as much for what it avoids as for what it achieves. This is a story of friendship, loyalty and endurance between two dogs (a young retriever called ...

The Werewolf series of essays on classic children’s books continues this week with this story by Avi of murder, mutiny and teenage rebellion on the high seas All children have the same needs for ...

Routinely in politics, there is a double standard for outrage. The same people who regarded Jacinda Ardern as a jackbooted tyrant seem to be quite unruffled by National riding roughshod over both ...