As Bloomberg says, the coronavirus shutdown is creating the world’s biggest work-from-home experiment. On the upside, the mortality rate with the current outbreak is lower […]
As New Zealand gears up to begin its $6.8 billion programme of large scale roading projects all around the country, we should be aware of […]
For months, National’s best (and only?) hope of winning Election 2020 has involved keeping New Zealand First down below the 5% MMP threshold, and out […]
Quick quiz to end the week. What deserves the more attention – the death of a US basketball legend, or the end of Palestinian hopes […]
More than once at her post-Cabinet press conference yesterday, PM Jacinda Ardern claimed it would be “very difficult” to evacuate the 53 New Zealanders currently […]
The coronavirus – its official World Health Organisation designation is 2019-nCoV – is believed to have originated as a seafood-to-human transfer, with ground zero for […]
Are National really better political managers than Labour, particularly when it comes to running the economy? For many voters – and the business community in […]
By now, the end game the Republican Senate majority has in mind in their setting of the rules for the impeachment trial of Donald J. […]
If they enter public life, women can expect a type of intense (and contradictory) scrutiny that is rarely applied to their male counterparts. If they […]
Hold the champagne, folks. This week’s China/US deal is more about a change in tone between the world’s two biggest economies – thank goodness they’re […]
Inevitably, children hear a lot about climate change – on the news, on the street, from their friends – and a lot of that news […]
So, evidently, you can get away with murder. It looks as though a further escalation in the ongoing war between Iran and the US has […]
In popular culture, Australia is often portrayed as Western civilisation’s last unspoiled frontier, or as its final refuge from planetary disaster. In Nevil Shute’s best-selling […]
In a year where so many of the highlights came from female musicians, there was one standout album…
While it isn’t surprising that Boris Johnson won the election, he might also have lost the United Kingdom
Presumably, if there is to be a ministerial inquiry (at the very least) into the Whakaari/White Island disaster, it will need to be a joint ministerial inquiry.
If New Zealand has a pressing need to stimulate its flagging economy, it seems very weird to meet this need with a $12 billion package of infrastructure spending…
New Zealand itself is at risk of being seen as a tourism destination where commercial factors determine the boundary line of acceptable risk
In the fortnight since the Internet got switched back on in Iran, the ferocity of the crackdown on the recent demonstrations has become evident.
It was always going to be hard to have a rational debate on cannabis reform. Far easier for politicians to win votes by stoking alarm.
The same argument that Robertson has made for these projects apply equally to why the government should borrow the money to build them itself
Be it the scandals he has uncovered (eg the Winebox) or the scandals he has featured in… Winston Peters is, as they say, good copy.
Even before the local body election results came in from Hong Kong, China had been having a p.r. nightmare this week.
One one front, the government has now done the right thing, and has partially restored the right of prisoners to vote
Reportedly, there have been 17 civilian deaths and injuries (seven of the dead were children) caused by ordnance left behind on the firing range of our Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Bamiyan province.
Labour has been steadily improving its gender balance… yet just as steadily losing the generational battle to the Greens
The narrative that our farmers are ‘doing it tough’ plays into a number of wellworn stereotypes…
Asking whether this new, environmentally focussed party can make the 5% MMP threshold may be the wrong question…
Clearly, the National Party hierarchy is very, very excited about Christopher Luxon
Police pursuits have a track record that makes them more dangerous than the original risk. Armed police units belong in the same category. The more insidious examples have to do with terrorism.
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