IMO, this is one of the year’s best videos. For the “Gumshoe” track off his Rarely Do I Dream album, Trevor Powers aka Youth Lagoon came up with another haunting fusion of images, sound collage and ...

The track record of modern singers trying to create new Christmas songs proves that it is harder than it looks. Yet back in 1956, the Hepsters (and since then, whoever made this lovely video of their ...

Politicians are often urged to reach consensus on certain issues, so that everything doesn’t just flip back again when there’s a change of government. Unfortunately, these calls for consensus are ...

For many councils, the Luxon government’s plan to restrict the ability of local councils to increase rates to a range of between two and four per cent annually, is a recipe for : (b) increasing user ...

Politicians are often urged to reach consensus on certain issues, so that everything doesn’t just flip back again when there’s a change of government. Unfortunately, […] ...

As Donald Trump zigs and zags on tariffs and trashes America’s reputation as a safe and stable place to invest, China has a big gun that it could bring to this tariff knife fight. Behind Japan, China ...

Decades ago, Alexander Cockburn wrote a column pointing out that the true believers in the power and precision of the defence industry’s latest weaponry tend to be (a) their gullible government ...

The spectacular improvements in reading achievement announced by Education Minister Erica Stanford on Monday were almost too good to be true – so it isn’t surprising that the figures justifying those ...

As the old saying goes, “With your eyes, you enter the world. But with your ears, the world enters you.” This may explain why hearing the familiar cadences of certain politicians on the radio can ...

When you wheel out Judith Collins as your weapon of last resort, you’ve already lost the battle for public opinion, and are pitching your messages solely to the party faithful. This week, unions are ...