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The intelligent ingredient is a fairer society

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Earth’s orbiting International Space Station is about the same size as a six-bedroom house, the Guardian said in a mind-shaping feature earlier this month....

Important fun

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I found myself handing out the honours for Waiheke’s fastest business-house trolley at the Great Gulf News Trolley Derby last Sunday, and was suddenly aware...

Enough already

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A year and more into October’s tawdry election lead-up, it’s hard to stomach the daily cacophony of polls and hypocritical bickering that’s passing for...

Bread and circuses

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Viewing this last week as a snapshot in time, we now seem near-fatally disconnected from common sense history – human kindness being an early...

Is there no decorum?

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Auckland Council officials have prevailed. We’ve had the noise and fury of our profligate city council flailing round to produce a balanced financial budget...

No wonder we are hurting

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After nearly six years and a spectacular Labour win three years ago, there is something horribly wrong with our current political discourse. The attack...

The great unease

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It doesn’t pay to speculate on the future of the human race at this point in history. The knife-balance future is unknowable and it’s...

In the heat of battle

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This week, leavened by the eerie dawn services of ANZAC Day and world-war histories redolent with high ideals for a fairer world, we have...

Screeeeech. Crunch!

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The New York Second, which has been called the ‘shortest unit of time in the multiverse’, is defined as the period of time between...

Easter, a time for redemption

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Easter, with its message of redemption, is perhaps the one festival of the western world’s twenty-first century calendar that still prompts us to a...