The current leader of the opposition, Chris Hipkins, stumbled into a policy release on the party’s capital gains tax. The term policy is generous. This was a marketing plan sketched on the back of a n ...

Members of a South Island ski club cannot soak in its hot tub with an alcoholic drink after health experts warned someone could drown. Wait until they find out that there are hundreds of thousands of ...

Labour leader Chris Hipkins says Te Pāti Māori still isn’t ready for Government, as the party booted two of its MPs from its caucus this week. This is a meaningless statement. He is not ruling out a ...

On Patreon, I have done a list of who were the good cops and bad cops in the McSkimming affair. I've managed to identify 90% of the bad cops by name. I note: What is astonishing with this list isn't ...

Wellington ratepayers were left covering the costs of a private celebration for outgoing mayor Tory Whanau’s official portrait – a painted commission that ignored a council directive to save money by ...

Opposition leader Chris Hipkins is dismissive of Prime Minister Christopher Luxon saying the country needs a “mature” conversation around the potential sale of state-owned assets. “What would this ...

Gaius Julius Caesar's second wife was Pompeia (a grand daughter of Sulla who almost killed Caesar). During the Festival of Bona Dea a rascal called Publius Clodius Pulcher sneaked in disguised as a ...

US President Donald Trump has granted sweeping pardons to top allies accused of attempting to subvert the 2020 election, the administration’s pardon attorney Ed Martin has said. Martin shared a list ...

At my Patreon, I look at whether TPM will use the waka jumping law to expel their former MPs from Parliament. I also look at the likely outcome from the next elections in those seats, and why it is ...

The IPCA has released a report so damning of the Police, that the Government has announced there will be an enhanced oversight body - the Inspector-General of Police. This is not to do with the ...

When the New Zealand Transport Agency signed off on an integrated national ticketing system in 2009, John Key was prime minister, Avatar ruled at the box office and a pound of butter cost about $3.60.

Groups including Catholic school principals and kindergartens have united to oppose government changes to the teacher registration and disciplinary body the Teaching Council. In an open letter to ...