John Davidson has Tourette syndrome. He has the variety where he uncontrollably yells out offensive things. It isn't what he is really thinking. It is just part of who he is. He has campaigned for ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The NZ Herald has an op ed by John Howard and Tim Ewing-Jarvie on national security. I was privileged to hear them speak recently on this issue, and it was hugely illuminating (and depressing). Before ...

The Auditor-General has reported on expenditure by the Chatham Islands Council while Paul Eagle was CEO, and it is damning. The Council owns a house that it rents to the Chief Executive as part of the ...

Last night I and a number of NZ Against Hamas members attended what was for me one of the most entertaining events of the last 12 months: a mass protest of a few hundred Kiwi Iranians against a dozen ...