Karl du Fresne

The tragedy in Ukraine illustrates with striking clarity the importance of a free and independent press. People frequently express the naï...

I spent a couple of hours wandering the streets of downtown Wellington this week. What a dismal experience. Actually, it was worse than di...

From disgrace to sham to travesty and back again – that pretty much sums up the Three Waters project so far.  (I won’t use the government’s ...

I bet I’m not the only one who heard Radio New Zealand’s news item about a  homeless Napier woman with seven children and wondered why no m...

[Readers please note: the reference to the Media Council's decision on a  complaint involving Siouxsie Wiles toward the end of this post...

The results are in and the judges have come to a decision. (Correction: that should be judge , singular. There’s only one judge, and it’s me...

Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t know. So the cliché goes – and like most clichés, it has a core of truth. A couple of w...