John Banks is now a convicted criminal. Which is a good thing, but maybe not for the reason you think.
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Labour can't keep rewarding failure
Chris Trotter has missed my point. It's not a factional coup d'etat Labour needs but a coup d'élan to jolt the party onto success
Read MoreColin and Jamie walked into a bar ...
Colin Craig is making up the law. And Jamie Whyte doesn't think rural people should have access to doctors. Or something like that.
Read MoreAll other things being equal... except they aren't
Jamie Whyte's speech insisting "race has no place in the law" ignores the fact that the law has never been blind to race, let alone wealth, history and any number of other things
Read MoreMuch to fight for in the Maori seats
Deals on the left... Candidates dipping into their own pockets... culture versus class... there are high stakes at play in the Maori electorates this year
Read MoreMike Hosking & the benefit of low expectations
Labour's public upset over the TVNZ debate moderator is a sign of more ill-discipline and prompts the question if it's time for a rejig in David Cunliffe's office
Read MoreWhy red-zoning provincial New Zealand will never be an option
New Zealand makes no economic sense in a global market place.
Read MoreWhat does Labour do now?
First, stop blaming the media.
Read MoreNaked on the cross-benches – the latest MMP fad
It seems the latest trend in minor party politics is political nudity, draped in just the merest hint of government
Read MoreMate, has Winston put the Conservatives in check?
Winston Peters has just moved his King to East Coast Bays and put Labour and the Greens' capital gains tax pawns under threat...proof that New Zealand First is still a player
Read MoreIf it is so wrong, Rodney, fix it yourself
Rodney Hide thinks some MP should bravely do a pointless thing that he himself is not quite courageous enough to try.
Read MoreColin Craig is asking for the impossible
Colin Craig has just one thing he wants from National in any post-election deal. Unfortunately, it's something that National isn't able to give him.
Read MoreIgnorantia juris excusat
Did you know that if you don't know you are breaking a law, this means that you're allowed to break it without criminal consequences following? At least, you can if you're a New Zealand spy agency.
Read MoreI've made a huge tiny mistake
Is spending money on trying to affect how people vote a bad thing ... unless it's you who is doing the spending?
Read MoreTime to close down Zombie towns?
The inequality debate reaches beyond individuals to towns and regions, so what can we do when an entire town is in the doldrums?
Read MoreThere's something going down that wasn't here before
The High Court just cracked open the door to expressly telling Parliament that it has made laws that unacceptably breach human rights. But it also said that it really, really, really doesn't want to walk into that strange room.
Read More‘Vote Positive’ means sound positive too
Labour’s new election slogan is a challenge for the party to focus exclusively ‘on the positive things that matter to Kiwi families’, as the PR promises.
That means rejecting the rhetoric that has New Zealand going to hell in a hand basket, and avoiding negative distractions that make Labour look like the party of dead trees, slow trucks and extinct birds
Read MoreOn John Roughan's confusions
John Roughan's column on why paying "voluntary" school fees is a good thing confuses me. I think that's because it is very confusing.
Read MoreSorry, but ill-discipline still hounds Labour... Sorry
Mallard's moas and David Cunliffe's mangled apology are signs that Labour's still slipping off-message too often... and sometimes not even accidentally
Read MoreLet's all just take a deep breath ...
People are starting to demand someone's - anyone's! - head over the Muhammad Rizalman bin Ismail diplomatic immunity escapade. What's the rush?, I say.
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