The Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Act is an inadequate piece of law -- albeit one markedly better than what it was designed to replace -- passed ...

It's hardly new that for science to play its part in public life, complex and difficult ideas must be communicated to the public. The works of Einstein and Bohr, for example, embodied the strangest ...

There were warnings last year, including here in this blog, that a nasty surprise was developing in the process of merging council IT systems for the new Auckland super city; that long-term costs were ...

Firstly: Kim Dotcom did not "admit to hacking" at the Internet-Mana campaign launch today, as both network news shows claimed this evening. His "teenage hacker made good" story is Dotcom Bio 101. It's ...

It's almost exactly three months since the New Zealand Herald's 'Diary' columnist Rachel Glucina announced in a tweet that she had been "headhunted" by Mediaworks "for a joint venture partnership to ...

Earlier this week, Act Party leader Jamie Whyte notified the world that he had delivered a speech entitled Race has no place in the law and, it seemed, sat back in anticipation of plaudits for his ...

How would you feel as a consumer if you were made to pay the decreed price of a commercial monopoly supplier and were deprived by the same government of any conventional means of challenging that ...

As you all know by now, Louisa Wall's marriage equality bill has been pulled from the ballot. And I guess you've all been waiting in breathless anticipation to find out how I feel about it. Yeah. Me ...

My taxi driver had a theory, as taxi drivers often do -- especially when they've had a lot of time to sit in their cars and ruminate. At about 12.30am on Friday morning, on Queen Street, I was only ...

I understand why London Mayor Boris Johnson pitched his city's near-billion-pound plan for cycle infrastructure as a bid to "de-Lycrafy cycling". The idea that cycling takes special clothing isn't ...

"In just seven years' time, they'll have enough money to buy every share in every public company in New Zealand. Soon, they could buy all the farms. Indeed, one day the government could wind up owning ...

All right, this is getting ridiculous. It's been a beautiful day in Auckland. I rode from the Chev to La Cigale in Parnell, then back via Quay Street, and out along Queen's Wharf, to inspect the damn ...