Opinion

One Week in September: A Look Back at Yablokogate

In September 2011, the MicroWiki community was gripped with accusations of an attempted power grab. Ten years on, the Times looks back and tries to make sense of a scandal that nearly broke the community. »

Tuesday, 7 September 2021

Commonwealth Avenue: The Greatest Failure of the Socialists

Is it time we called time on the whole 'St.Charlie' thing? »

Friday, 14 August 2015

December 2014: How we will get there from here

2014 is going to bring a very different community to the one we know now. »

Tuesday, 31 December 2013

Commonwealth Avenue: Five years on and what do we have to show for it?

Five years since the modern MicroWiki community came into being, a great number of nations are facing the saddest fate of all: inactivity. »

Tuesday, 29 October 2013

St.Charlian President: “Superpresident idea is useless and dangerous”

With a proposal before the St.Charlian parliament to merge the offices of President and Prime Minister, the Times interviewed current President James Lunam to get an in-depth perspective to why he is not in favour of the creation of a St.Charlian "Superpresident". »

Saturday, 21 September 2013

Commonwealth Avenue: Look! Liberal Tiana!

Communism has fallen in one of the community's reddest nations. Funnily enough, this is a good thing. »

Wednesday, 6 June 2012

Commonwealth Avenue: Sandus plays the Nazi Card, anyone surprised?

Fush is Natzi scum, or at least Will would like to think so… Story of the Century: A1 is to be disestablished (apparently). Story of the Lulz: Sandus thinks A1 is a modern Nazi Germany. You think I’m joking? In this fantastic bit of tripe from his local rag, Will Sörgel of the »

Monday, 14 May 2012

Commonwealth Avenue: The Merits of Democracy in Modern Zealandia

Because it’s totes unbiased. The December 1, 2011 Zealandian election was probably the dirtiest and most ferocious the nation has seen in a while. On one hand we had the Socialist Unity Party of Zealandia (SUPZ) slamming the National Peoples Party (NPP) for being liars and out for themselves, »

Friday, 2 December 2011

A Year in the Office of Minister of Culture

Elizabeth Pountney has been the Minister of Culture for the Federal Commonwealth of Sirocco for just shy of one year. In this article, she talks about her life as Minister and how she now has an excuse for engorging herself on anime. Sirocco Times: What’s been your favourite part about being »

Tuesday, 1 November 2011

Commonwealth Avenue: Not a day to be forgotten fast

Sometimes news hits you right when you don’t expect it. That was the case a year ago today. It was a quiet Saturday morning here in Northland. Sirocco was still two months from foundation and even then it was still intended to be called Andersonia. In the MicroWiki community, Erusia was gone »

Sunday, 4 September 2011