As the polls have been indicating for months, Christopher Luxon is not anyone’s idea of a political asset. He is a proven liability to New Zealand, to the National Party, to the coalition government ...

The spectacular improvements in reading achievement announced by Education Minister Erica Stanford on Monday were almost too good to be true – so it isn’t surprising that the figures justifying those ...

Cockburn’s warning came to mind in the light of the recent announcement by Defence Minister Judith Collins that the government’s massive $9 billion outlay on new defence spending will offer our ...

As the economists conclude, the nation’s plumbing isn’t on track to be fixed any time soon. On the current settings, the government’s underlying revenue less expenses (aka OBEGAL) will be in deficit ...

If anyone under 35 still had mixed feelings about leaving New Zealand to build a future elsewhere, PM Christopher Luxon probably sealed the deal this week with his comments about the youth job market.

Decades ago, Alexander Cockburn wrote a column pointing out that the true believers in the power and precision of the defence industry’s latest weaponry tend […] ...

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 ...

Too bad its easier said than done, and the ingenuity with which some kids will circumvent such a ban – by say, accessing a VPN – may be the least of the problems. Surprisingly little comment has been ...

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 ...