Regardless, any criticism of these atrocities gets routinely labelled as antisemitism by Israel’s apologists. In New Zealand, their lobbying pressure appears to be working. These days for example, you ...

In The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle this playful sense of dis-orientation begins with the very first sentence of the book: ‘Not every thirteen year old girl is accused of murder, brought to ...

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 ...

Briefly a member of the war cabinet overseeing the Gaza war, [Eisenkot] has attacked Netanyahu for bowing too readily to U.S. demands for a ceasefire in ​Lebanon to settle the Iran conflict. He calls ...

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 ...

The Werewolf series on classic children’s books continues this week with “The Indian in the Cupboard” by Lynne Reid Banks. Usually, fantasy offers a means of escape, a way of bending the rules of ...

Every three years around this time, the election campaign begins to feel a bit like the old carnival Ghost Train. All aboard. After the lurch into darkness and after careening around the first corners ...

The Werewolf series of essays on classic children’s books continues this week with Harriet The Spy by Louise Fitzhugh. Both Holden and Harriet M. Welsch are honest witnesses – spies, even – of a world ...

Here’s a snapshot of government priorities: one third of staff at a key facility that seeks to prevent the incidence of family and sexual violence are set to lose their jobs. The Centre for Family ...

In one sense, Peru is the poster child of political instability, having gone through nine presidents in the past 10 years, with several ending up in jail. Paradoxically, Peru has also been a model of ...