A pākehā MP with a barely credible excuse for associating with gangs gets a free pass from Hipkins, while a Māori candidate with a credible explanation – they’re family, they live in the community I ...

The Clark era of foreign policy independence now seems well and truly over. Former PM Helen Clark laid the foundation of this country’s 21st century foreign policy. On her watch, our foreign policy ...

We’re now knee deep in political debates, the season in which the media monetises the democratic process, and generates food for its political news cycle. But has anyone, ever, changed their political ...

If they fail, another candidate can be given 28 days to try, or the problem can be passed straight back to the Knesset, for up to three attempts to form a viable government. If the deadlock persists, ...

Now that Donald Trump has come out of the closet and made the United States an open ally of Russia against Ukraine, what response can […] ...

The Werewolf series of essays on classic children’s books focusses this week on Cynthia Voigt’s great story of a young girl’s resourcefulness, against the odds. Curiosity has always been a good friend ...

This week, the Werewolf series of essays on classic children’s literature turns the spotlight onto Robert C. O’Brien’s book about one family’s encounter with genetic engineering.. With rare skill, ...

In this entry in the series on classic children’s books, the owls are not what they seem, but the English stay true to type. For a children’s book, this book has an extremely chilly dedication line: ...

True, it may seem weird to try and warn teenagers about the horrors of war by writing them a story about teenagers who kill each other in a TV reality show. Nine times out of ten, you’d end up with ...

Chameleons can change colour, says Wikipedia, by altering their degree of brightness as well as by changing colour (from red to green to yellow to blue and back again) to fit with their surroundings.