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 ...

We’re now knee deep in political debates, the season in which the media monetises the democratic process, and generates food ...

If they fail, another candidate can be given 28 days to try, or the problem can be passed straight back to the Knesset, for ...

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.

When it comes to running a market economy, Labour and National probably have more in common with each other than they do with New Zealand First, given how NZF’s economic nationalism is so sharply at ...

Over the past few days, Finance Minister Nicola Willis has got the dream headlines she wanted from the PREFU, Treasury’s Pre-Election Fiscal Update. “Less Debt, Bigger Surplus Coming” said Stuff, with ...

The public is not happy. The polls keep telling us that Christopher Luxon’s government is widely disliked, and that there is little enthusiasm either, for the Labour Party of Chris Hipkins. And yet ...