Over the last 30 years, state sectors of Western democracies have expanded and senior level state employment, with its high pay, security and access to the levers of power became a magnet for the ...

The Putin-Trump proposed peace deal for Ukraine is so horribly bad that it makes Neville Chamberlain's Munich Agreement with Hitler look visionary. I will put aside the merely terrible aspects such as ...

The US Government has announced they will allow 50 year mortgages, to try and help aspiring home owners. A 50 year mortgage is a terrible idea. It means people are going to be paying off a mortgage ...

While political affiliation makes people more biased towards speakers who share their views, it affects their overall willingness to let speakers speak, regardless of ideology, very little. But ...

Yes, the unions were the mouthpiece outside the court on the news last night, and one woman had the audacity to apply the water works, utterly pathetic, the drives were stoked, but will lose their ...

The deaths of three children and their father at the scene of a Manawatū house fire are being investigated as a suspected triple murder-suicide, Stuff understands. Dean Field died at a property on SH1 ...

Stuff has details of the transport plan by the Government for Wellington. It is brilliant. The noisy people against are a small minority. Many polls have shown strong support for increasing the ...

This is a heads up that from next month, I am going to make a change to assumptions about electorate seats for any NZ political polls by Curia. This post explains why. Up until the end of 2024, Curia ...

At Patreon, I have exclusive Wellington poll results about the Mayor, Deputy Mayor and MPs for Rongotai, Wellington Central and Ohariu.

Act is that a party leader needs the support of two thirds of their MPs to expel an MP from Parliament. S55D(c) of the Electoral Act says that a statement by the leader must: state that, after conside ...

While I am not a fan of the BSA appointing itself as chief censor of the Internet, I do like some of the research they have produced. The annual survey of offensive words is always interesting, and ...

RNZ understands MPs Oriini Kaipara, Mariameno Kapa-Kingi, Tākuta Ferris and a representative for Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke met without their party co-leaders. The Tamihere family may have a majority ...