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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Funny…back when Russia invaded Ukraine, New Zealand didn’t wait for Vladimir Putin to tell us whether his acts of aggression were legal under international law ...

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 ...

As the last stop on the global supply chain for oil and diesel, New Zealand should be the first country taking pre-emptive steps to conserve energy use. Arguably, we could also be test-flying a ...

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 ...