Another closing of the tabs: " This is troubling because the government is spending hundreds of millions of dollars in subsidy money to...

One cost of regulation is the innovation you never get to see.  We know about how New Zealand's stupid ban on genetic modification is ca...

You can take climate change seriously, or you can behave like the New Zealand government. Item the first: the government is not keen on auth...

The Atlantic's Derek Thompson likes craft beer . But his take on its rise in the US doesn't make a lot of sense. And I'm surpri...

While the links between alcohol and any particular disorder are irrelevant in the grand scheme of things where the net effects on mortality ...

Some sharks shouldn't be jumped. This may be one . The Green Man pub on Victoria St is about to launch a stag semen "milked...

Somebody's not been listening to Weird Al's grammar advice : irony is not coincidence. Alcohol Healthwatch's Christine Rogan...

Max Roser's excellent twitter feed provides regular updates on how the world's getting better. My new project: 100 charts that sh...

While most of the anti-gluten seems badly overhyped, there are some people for whom gluten poses substantial dietary risk. They need to know...

I'd not heard of contract brewing before moving to New Zealand. The craft beer scene started taking off here not long after I arrived in...

You couldn't get Moosehead Beer in Manitoba when I was a kid. Interprovincial trade barriers stopped retailers from selling a beer that ...

I love Amihai Glazer's little model claiming that voters are motivated by the desire to anger or please others through their vote. The ...

I'm a fan of Charles Tibout's arguments about local government competition: lots of small local governments competing with each oth...

From the "If it's on the Discovery Channel, it must be true" file. They argue we moved to agriculture in order to get beer...

Enough. Time to stop being depressed while looking at downtown Christchurch. Look instead east to Woolston where Alasdair Cassels and his fa...

The only bit of good news I've been hearing about the Christchurch downtown rebuild is the EPIC technology hub. Meanwhile, here's ...

From The Smithsonian : Widely published in academic journals and books, McGovern’s research has shed light on agriculture, medicine and trad...

Christchurch, with about 400,000 people, has a huge number of really great craft brewers. A short list, with apologies to anyone I've fo...

Simon Power last year promised to continue New Zealand's freeze on unilateral tariff reductions; National opposed Sir Roger's bill...

I'd not heard of this one before. @yeastieboys points to controversy over the status of grey market beers: beers imported into a coun...