We have the venues. Auckland and Dunedin both have sizeable stadiums (the Forsythe Barr stadium can host 35,000 concert goers) and Christchurch has a large stadium about to come on stream. Our ...

As for Kirk‘s views on politically inspired violence..when Paul Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi’s 82 year old husband, was attacked so severely in a home invasion by an intruder wielding a hammer that Paul ...

As the old saying goes, “With your eyes, you enter the world. But with your ears, the world enters you.” This may explain why hearing the familiar cadences of certain politicians on the radio can ...

Winston Peters once seemed capable of much more than this. Footnote One: One recruit waiting in the wings is Labour reject Stuart Nash, who finally got himself fired by Chris Hipkins for repeatedly ...

The judge who halted Google’s project [in 2024] ruled that neither the company nor the authorities took into account, in their initial assessment, the likely impact of the data centre on Santiago’s ...

One of the whoppers told regularly by Nicola Willis and Christopher Luxon is that National inherited a terrible, no good economy from Labour, with rampant inflation and sky high interest rates that ...

Want Donald Trump to lower the tariffs on your exports to US markets? Easy. Offer him money. Lots of it. As the New York Times explained yesterday (in a story headlined “Trump’s Demand to Trading ...

Luxon did protest too much on the weekend. Sure, the credulous party faithful were willing to believe him as he continued to lay the blame for the state of the economy on what Labour did, or didn’t do ...

Other countries are expanding the ability of their citizens to vote. In Britain (from which New Zealand has long taken its constitutional cues) the franchise is being extended to 16-year-olds. In this ...

In the shadow of the Holocaust at the end of WWII, the world passed a raft of United Nations/Geneva conventions to ensure that states could “never again” inflict such horrors on a racially defined ...

Gordon Campbell On The Costs Of Regulating Cost, And Burkina Faso As A Role Model Gordon Campbell On Ducking The Costs Of Climate Change ...

Reportedly, the moral revulsion being felt around the world at Israel’s actions in Gaza has induced 24 countries to sign a joint letter calling on Israel to cease its onslaught, and to“end now” the ...