Author: Ian Powell

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…

Edited by ‘acute nose for a good story’ Barbara Fountain, it is difficult to beat NZ Doctor for drilling down…

Until recently I used the terms ‘hard right’ and ‘far right’ interchangeably. Certainly, dictionary definitions didn’t substantively differentiate. Broadly speaking…