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 ...

One can only hope that the New Zealand diplomats and corporate leaders heading to Washington to beg for leniency on our 15% tariff rate do realise that paying Trump off with large amounts of ...

Luxon’s core claim that Labour left the economy in a terrible, awful no good mess somehow evaded the notice of all of the international credit rating agencies, who were still giving Labour top marks ...

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 ...

While the retirement surge was anticipated, Dr Bradford says the more troubling trends lie in the intentions of younger and mid-career GPs. These include mid-career GPs considering early retirement ...

At times, it is pretty hard to see what good the “free” market is doing for most of us. The usual responses – we all benefit when global commodity prices are sky high and anyway, what can you do about ...

Looking for consistency in all things is said to be the hallmark of a small mind. Duly noted, but the Luxon government’s stance on climate change does seem strikingly inconsistent. For starters, New ...

Funny how “blow-out” gets so readily applied to cost escalation in the provision of public services (hospital rebuilds, the Cook Strait ferries) but when politicians get the figures wrong for their ...