As a keen follower of Parliament, one of the issues I have tracked in the past has been use of urgency. Back in around 2011 I was concerned about the amount of urgency being used, and actually worked ...
A short video went viral last weekend that briefly restored my faith in British policing. It showed a female Metropolitan Police officer standing alone in Whitechapel, surrounded by a crowd of angry ...
The official New Zealand Parliament account has announced it will no longer be posting on X (formerly Twitter) - and Winston Peters isn’t happy about it. Neither is Chris Bishop, not me. The account, ...
The debate over whether Tamatha Paul bears meaningful responsibility for Wellington’s sewage crisis has gathered pace and heat in equal measure. At the centre of it sits a blog post attributed to a ...
The study by Caroline Shaw, Ryan Gage, Alice Miller, Katherine Cullerton, and Alex Macmillan looked at five years of ministerial diaries for transport and associate transport ministers, from October ...
I've just been looking at the 19 charter schools approved to date, and am impressed with how well they cater for all types of kids, They are not about replicating state schools, but providing ...
The LNG terminal is not the Government’s preferred energy policy. It is the consequence of its predecessor’s. In October 2018, I wrote about the gulf between virtue signalling and virtue. The occasion ...
MP Willow-Jean Prime has lost education in a reshuffle of the Labour Party’s shadow Cabinet, with the portfolio being handed to Ginny Andersen. … Her credibility in the education portfolio came under ...
It doesn’t make sense that after one bad year farms are going out of business. Farms typically have cycles of good and bad years, and if they are holding over profits from the good years to support ...
A principal who runs a school well does not get to tell parents what to cook for dinner. The authority is real – but it is specific. It does not travel home with the children. The Reserve Bank of New ...
Golden Bay Air will be the first airline to receive a loan from funding ear-marked for at-risk regional air routes, Associate Transport Minister James Meager says. The airline will receive ...
The vote of an 18 year old deliquent in New Zealand is as important as that of Willy Apiata. Anyone who wants to be in government and succeed in their ministerial portfolios needs to respect every ...