Author: Ian Powell

On 14 December a father and son, reportedly linked to the ISIS, clerical fascist organisation committed a murderous attack on…

The Health and Disability Commissioner Act 1994 is bipartisan (National and Labour) legislation which aims to promote and protect the rights of health and disability services…

There is much to understand from the dramatic kidnapping (abduction is perhaps a better word) of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and…

On 25 September Kwame Anthony Appiah, who teaches philosophy and law at New York University, had a paywalled article titled…

My last Otaihanga Second Opinion post (8 December: link at end of this post) was the first of a two-part blog…

Last month (17 November) I gave an address to Kapiti U3A (Third Age) in Waikanae on the provocative subject of…

On 19 November Minister of Health Simeon Brown announced that the Government had introduced a ban, from 19 December, on…

The origin of the expression ‘tuckered out’ goes back to the east of the United States around the 1830s. After…

I am a panellist on Radio New Zealand’s The Panel ably run by Wallace Chapman. It is an early evening…

In 1962 Bob Dylan released his famous Blowin’ in the Wind, a protest song that uses a series of rhetorical questions…