Iran is the weakest. If Iran falls, war in our region – intended or unintended – becomes vastly more likely. Mainstream New Zealanders and Australians suffer from an understandable complacency: war is ...

Te Pāti Māori condemns the Israeli navy’s armed interception of the Madleen, a civilian aid vessel carrying food, medical supplies, and international activists to Gaza, including Greta Thunberg.

In the absence of any political party stating clearly that public ownership of major infrastructure is a very good idea, here’s 10 good things public ownership of infrastructure does that private ...

Not content to stay in the North Atlantic, NATO is shortly about to reveal in Madrid its next ten-year plan to contain China. Jacinda Ardern will be there, who knows why. Are we nailing our colours to ...

Health Minister David Clark has resigned. Right decision. Credit to Clark for a dignified press conference. Offering to quit during lockdown – and PM's measured response, that she would have accepted ...

I thought David Seymour was the most interesting speaker at the Victoria University post-election conference at Parliament last year. Two things stood out for me in his presentation following ACT's ...

Originally posted on Nick Kelly’s blog On February 24 2022 Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the Russian military to invade Ukraine, a nation that declared independence from Russia on August 24 ...

Wellington mayor Tory Whanau has announced she won’t run for mayor again at this year’s local body elections. She names two reasons: one is former Labour Party leader Andrew Little stepping into the ...

The Government has announced it will publicly apologise for the treatment of Pacific people in the 1970s when they were harassed and discriminated against by the Police because of the place of their ...

I wish Roger Douglas had brought in a CGT, rather than pose an alternative assets tax and then do nothing. At least Michael Cullen wishes he had seen Bill English coming and financed the NZSF with 1% ...