Here’s a cover version by Katie Crutchfield (aka Waxahatchee) of one of that album’s key songs. For all of its superficial prettiness, “Where’s Your Love Now” is really an angry, resentful, ...

Does National really want to devote itself to keeping the Luxon balloon aloft until November? Talking through clenched teeth can be so stressful. The centre right is not normally known for tolerating ...

In stark contrast, Trump sent J.D. Vance, his friend the real estate tycoon Steve Witkoff, and Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner. None of them have any background in diplomacy or in the details of the ...

Hungary has made its mark before on the world stage. (Composer: Bela Bartok; ballpoint pen inventor: Laszlo Biro; national dish: goulash.) Even so, why did Donald Trump, J.D. Vance, Benjamin Netanyahu ...

The US rationale for the blockade/entire war is that Iran must never, ever be allowed to have a nuclear weapon and that Iran has always […] ...

Oil prices are still rising amid fears that Iran may be laying mines in the Straits of Hormuz. The initial market confidence that the US would speedily bring this war to a happy conclusion has all but ...

In his tilt at the leadership last November, Chris Bishop plainly forgot Omar’s excellent advice from The Wire: “If you come at the king, better not miss.” He’s now paid the price. Yet in the wake of ...

The recently infamous “I’m the CEO/ Your job is the Prime Minister” exchange between Christopher Luxon and Tova O’Brien should be a defining moment in Luxon’s downward trajectory as the leader of the ...

At what point does a Cabinet minister distorting the statistics on issues in their portfolio amount to a sackable offence? Earlier this week, Children’s Minister Karen Chhour was publicly celebrating ...