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Hate to hurt Bill English’s feelings, but yesterday’s Budget looked like a document the Labour Party might have written – and no, that’s not meant […]

Yesterday’s street protests in New Zealand main city centres about the kidnap of 276 girls in Nigeria by the fundamentalist group Boko Haram were a […]

Once again, Winston Peters has failed to ignite on the launch pad. These days you have to go back almost 20 years – to the […]

After weeks of political scandal, National is understandably keen to seize on Budget week as its big chance to refocus election year entirely, around issues […]

Like King Lear, Winston Peters and his courtiers in New Zealand First have chosen to demand a self-defeating expression of loyalty from prospective NZF candidates. […]

Now that synthetic cannabis is no longer legal, we can look back at our history with these products and see it as driven by New […]

So Justice Minister Judith Collins is going to have four or five days off work from her $268,000 a year (plus perks) job; apparently, she […]

Poor, poor Maurice Williamson. Why is everybody picking on him for simply doing his job….which appears to include ensuring that special treatment is afforded to […]

So after all the years of talk about “momentum” and claims that “significant progress” was being made – dutifully reported by the mainstream media – […]

As Labour’s shadow Finance Minister David Parker pointed out on RNZ this morning, New Zealand has led the way internationally by making the control of […]

Shane Jones has left Parliament in the manner to which we have become accustomed, with self interest coming in first and second, and with the […]

Reportedly, US drone operators refer to their kills as “bug splat” – mainly because when the carnage is viewed on their screens thousands of kilometres […]

With the death of Sir Owen Woodhouse, the founding father of the Accident Compensation Scheme, New Zealand has lost one of the titans of its […]

Ultimately the Queen’s longevity has been one of her most significant accomplishments. A transition to Prince Charles while the monarchy was in the pits of […]

David Cunliffe won his current job by indicating he would be a Labour leader proud of his party’s left wing traditions. Since then, a question […]

On the upside, the gigantic election process that began yesterday in India is the largest exercise in democracy on the planet. Reportedly, a staggering five […]

So much for the demonising of trade unions. As the dust setttles on the Global Financial Crisis, some US corporate leaders seem able to read […]

In effect, there are three main candidates running in Afghanistan’s presidential election this week: the former diplomat Abdullah Abdullah, the former World Bank economist Ashraf […]

The ban on Japan’s whaling programme ordered by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) is a credit to Australia, who brought the case. Indirectly, it […]

So far, Mana leader Hone Harawira deserves a lot of credit for the disciplined way he has conducted his discussions with the Internet Party. Harawira […]

So Europe is “considering” whether to launch free trade discussions, with New Zealand ; the parties plan to establish a scoping process and will hold […]

So the US wants Russia to be banished “indefinitely” from the G-8 club for its actions in Crimea. Talk about gall. Astonishing to watch the […]

For decades now, there has been a peace dividend from global trade. The more interdependent our economies become, the less likely we are to go […]

During Prime Minister John Key’s current visit to China, Key and Chinese premier Li Keqiang agreed to a deal that enables direct trading on the […]

In one sense at least, Finance Minister Bill English has done everyone a favour with the way the Genesis share float has been structured. So […]

Anyone who may have feeling twinges of remorse that it might have been a good idea for Shane Jones to have won the Labour Party […]

If it does nothing else, this election will be a test of whether marketing really can turn a pig’s ear into a silk purse. Although […]

The Cabinet manual not only forbids actual conflicts of interest when Ministers are performing public duties from which they or their family members and close […]

To the Russians, the current crisis in the Ukraine must seem like a no-brainer. Ukraine has always been treated as vital to Russia’s self-defence, and […]