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 ...
Christopher Luxon went into and came out of today’s special caucus meeting as damaged goods. If survival is to be counted as winning, it has still looked more like a Pyrrhic victory than a cause for ...
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 ...
People with more wealth enjoy better health, and their children get a head start in life. Pretty obvious, really. Yet criticism of this state of affairs is often attributed to the politics of envy. We ...
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 ...
True to form, US President Donald Trump has found a way to try and monetise the war he launched against Iran. Trump is proposing to slap a 20% fee on all cargo that sails through the Strait of Hormuz ...
This week, the Werewolf series of essays on classic children’s literature turns the spotlight onto Robert C. O’Brien’s book about one family’s encounter with genetic engineering.. With rare skill, ...