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Margaret Thatcher once said "the problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." And you...
Declaration of interest, or if you like, declaration of slight indifference. I'm hopelessly badly co-ordinated with a thin...
We'll get a formal announcement on the India travel ban around midday today, although the PM's comment yesterday about leaving...
The health reforms. A big shake-up, and you have to wonder if this can be done in the time the Government has left. Point...
You knew the minute the Ihumātao occupation began, what the outcome was going to be. Never mind the fact the land was transferred...
The Prime Minister is dangling a bit of a carrot for the horticultural sector. She says now the travel bubble with Australia...
Question: when did we all get so aggressive, and why? It's kind of crept up on us, but there's something seriously wrong...
I gather Meghan Markle has in the past earned money as an actress. But the truth is she was never an especially talented...
In the past week I guess we’ve all been through that Covid rollercoaster again. Shock first, at the news of the new lockdown,...
It's all very well dishing out extra public holidays when you're not the one paying for it. We're getting an extra public...
Well, what a surprise, we bought Ihumātao. Another $30 million on the taxpayer’s card, but as we all know that’s just the...
The Government is trying to come up with ways to stop house prices rising, at the spectacular rates we've been seeing. And...
Pretty shocking figures from the blitz police have been doing, on trucks driving down State Highway One. They're running...
The Australia - New Zealand travel bubble will happen, provided there's not a massive change in the Covid situation either...
Have we stamped out COVID community transmission in this country, or have we not? Seems the Response Minister is either not...
Today's Herald front page headline, bursting our bubble. The paper says it'll be February at the earliest before we see a...
I will never voluntarily eat macaroni cheese, not ever. And the reason for that is we used to have it served up at school,...
Is it realistic to say we could have spotted the Christchurch mosque shooter, before he went on his evil rampage? Or are...
Being leader of the Opposition is they say, the toughest job in politics. Battling with the Prime Minister of the day in...
I'm not buying into all this outrage over the free money affair in Auckland at the weekend. In case you're not up to speed...
I watched Chris Liddell's interview on Q&A over the weekend. Liddell is the New Zealander working at Trump's right hand in...
A whiff of outrage at the news The Warehouse delivered a profit, on the back of the covid wage subsidy. $44 million in the...
I don't usually have too much trouble deciding how to vote, did it Monday, electorate and party votes no problem. End of...
I have wonder how much value there is in having this series of TV leaders' debates? There's still one more encounter to come...
