Yet hang on. When the Cabinet Ministers rated above them are Simeon Brown at six, Judith Collins at seven, Brooke van Velden at eight, and Shane Jones at nine, then maybe Willis and Luxon should be ...

The immediate origins of Sudan’s civil war are easy enough to sketch in brief. A democratic uprising in 2018 and 2019 had culminated in the overthrow of the 30 years of rule by Omar Hassan al-Bashir, ...

As for Kirk‘s views on politically inspired violence..when Paul Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi’s 82 year old husband, was attacked so severely in a home invasion by an intruder wielding a hammer that Paul ...

We have the venues. Auckland and Dunedin both have sizeable stadiums (the Forsythe Barr stadium can host 35,000 concert goers) and Christchurch has a large stadium about to come on stream. Our ...

Thankfully, the end is in sight for the government’s dance of the seven veils over recognising the state of Palestine, and for Labour’s rampant indecision […] ...

As Donald Trump zigs and zags on tariffs and trashes America’s reputation as a safe and stable place to invest, China has a big gun that it could bring to this tariff knife fight. Behind Japan, China ...

Heavens to Betsy. Let me get this right. In her own opinion column, a female journalist (the fearsome Andrea Vance) used a bad word to refer to female politicians who had just extinguished the ability ...

These are the perennial political questions that every incumbent government has to face. Do people feel better/wealthier/more secure now than they were three years ago? Not much, it seems. In last ...

For people blessed with privilege, their head start becomes so normalised that the advantages of wealth, better education, good housing, better healthcare, white skin and maleness are invisible to ...