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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Werewolf essays on classic children’s books focusses this week on the much admired, widely mourned creator of Frog and Toad, Owl at Home and Grasshopper on the Road. The tone of Arnold Lobel’s ...

If politics in a social democracy is to be a genuine contest of ideas, those ideas have to be contested transparently, between parties with similar access to resources. One way or another, all of ...

Long after she left office, Margaret Thatcher was asked to name her greatest accomplishment, and she famously replied: “Tony Blair, and New Labour.” Meaning: although it had begun life on the margins ...

In the Werewolf series on classic children’s books, this week’s essay is about George Selden’s charming story of interspecies friendship There’s no logical reason for thinking that people who write ...