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 ...

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 ...

You have to ask: why did Cameron distrust and disparage the numerous assurances given by Netflix that – for example – it would not interfere with Warners creative outputs, and would not shorten the 45 ...

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: ...

Pauline Hanson is one of the few politicians able to make Winston Peters look like a team player. Hanson’s “my way or the highway” dominance of her party is, of course, one of the things that her ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the wake of WW2, immigration policy was driven by a mixture of compassion for the refugees of war, and by a less admirable desire to replenish our ranks (preferably) with the racial stock of the ...

Clearly, last year’s fears of a stockmarket “AI bubble” have long gone. AI firms and related stocks are now being treated as the backbone of American prosperity, and market saviours. At the same time, ...

Labour finally came down off the fence last week and agreed to give National the votes required to get the free trade deal with India through Parliament, after New Zealand First came out against it.