New Zealand First leader Winston Peters wants to make it very clear: he won’t be working with Labour after the election if the party is still led by Chris Hipkins. ... “When I ruled out Hipkins in ...

Much of the commentary has focused on how small this Budget is – its $1.3 billion allowance of “new” operating money being the smallest in decades. While correct, that misses the fact that the package ...

I married, for the second time, and my new wife came from Brazil 16 years ago. When we visited her country and family, last year, we talked a lot about corruption there (the series The Mechanism is an ...

President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he would order the lifting of sanctions on Syria at the behest of Saudi Arabia's crown prince, a major U.S. policy shift ahead of an expected meeting with ...

Culture, my good fellow. The people of the Trump administration are going after Harvard on multiple fronts. One of those fronts is Harvard’s failure to protect their Jewish students. Another is their ...

John Bowie has a great tribute to Bob Jones, that fans would enjoy reading. One extract: He could be irascible, infuriating, and absolutely impossible to pigeonhole. One minute he’d be railing against ...

An interesting poll in the UK on transgender issues. In terms of net agreement with the UK Supreme Court decision that women-only spaces can exclude trans women, the results were: ...

This poll would see Prime Minister Farage with a majority government. The seat projection on it is: Reform 346 (+341) Labour 145 (-267) Lib Dems 73 (+1) SNP 39 (+30) Conservatives 17 (-104) The cross- ...

The Government has binned a tax worth an estimated $100 million each year after threats of retaliation from US President Donald Trump and claims about “overseas extortion” through these types of ...

Roger Bridge, a much loved, and long-serving member of the National Party and former chair of its Canterbury West Coast region, has died. Bridge was widely respected within party circles for his ...

At the same time, RNZ will have its budget cut by $18m over four years – $4.6m a year – around 7 percent of its current $67m allocation. This means they will still be getting $62 million a year. In ...

I suspect the usual suspects will call the Budget just released an austerity budget. They are lying. Austerity has a specific meaning. It is when you cut overall expenditure. It doesn't mean they have ...