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Article – Gordon Campbell     One can sympathise with Human Rights Commissioner Paul Hunt and the lose/lose situation he has just found himself in. If he had stayed safe and snug in the Beltway around Parliament, he would have been stereotyped as a liberal … One can sympathise with Human Rights Commissioner Paul Hunt and the lose/lose situation he has just found himself in. If he had stayed safe and snug in the Beltway around Parliament, he would have been stereotyped as a liberal snowflake out of touch with the real world. Yet if he had engaged with the Mongrel Mob on their premises a...

Photo: RNZ/ Vinay Ranchhod University of Waikato's Dr Reuben Steff said it was clear 10 to 15 years ago that if New Zealand continued to increase exports to China, it would soon end up having to tip-toe between the emerging global super power on the one hand and the US, UK, Australia and Canada on the other. "It was pretty clear that as China's power rose it would eventually start butting heads pretty heavily with the United States and yet we have still sleep-walked into this position," Dr Steff said. His comments come as an RNZ data analysis shows China now accounts for one third of New Zeal...

Is New Jersey scrapple country? We received an email from a listener who just moved back to New Jersey after 40 years of living in Colorado. He said one of the joys of being back in New Jersey was the pleasure of enjoying scrapple for breakfast. He said growing up his dad was a big fan of the stuff and they would have it for breakfast all the time. I was a little surprised, having always thought of it as a Philly or Pennsylvania Dutch food. As it turns out, it's pretty popular here too, although maybe not among the health conscious.