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 ...

In Budget 2026 there was also no discernible plan to lift the country’s dismal growth and productivity figures. As Business Canterbury CEO Leanne Watson damningly put it: At first glance, there isn’t ...

This week for instance, RNZ’s Ingrid Hipkiss asked Hipkins to explain how in the short term, Labour’s capital gains tax can possibly pay for Labour’s promise of three free doctors visits a year, given ...

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 ...

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 world has been quietly hoping and praying that the Republicans will lose control of the lower House or Senate – or both – in November’s mid-term elections, since this would put restraints on ...

Every Friday, Werewolf is re-publishing some essays about classic children’s book, that I began writing in 2009. This essay on Badger’s Parting Gifts has been slightly updated: Maybe the only thing ...

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 ...

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 ...