Will he look into getting rid of seatbelts in cars? What about aircraft safety briefings? We ask how far is too far for the Regulation Minister’s red tape crusade. A lot of people seem to have got out ...

Erica Stanford made the pretty obvious decision that books designed to teach kids English should use English words, and the usual suspects are claiming it is everything from white supremacy to ...

I blogged in early August on how MPs appear to have been scared into supporting a retrospective law change to protect ANZ and ASB Banks form a six year old law suit over their failure to make correct ...

Chlöe Swarbrick became a distraction from the debate on Palestine during a crucial week in which Israel stepped up bombardments of Gaza City and New Zealand began debating a huge issue. But ...

Protesting outside someone's home is set to be made an offence, with the government introducing new legislation carrying fines or jail sentences if people target private residences. While it will ...

KiwiRail has settled with Hyundai Mipo Dockyard with a $144 million final payment following the cancellation of the Project iRex ferries. In a press statement, Rail Minister Winston Peters was highly ...

New Zealand should be disgusted. A 46-year-old member of a wealthy family has been convicted of possessing and importing over 11,000 files of child sexual abuse material, including videos of toddlers ...

Chris Bishop says he’s looking forward to spending 10 minutes playing an unusual new protest game called “beat the Bish”. The housing minister’s political opponents in Wellington, through a lobby ...

How can you be Māori, but not have New Zealand citizenship? By not being born in New Zealand of course. The same way you can be Chinese and not have Chinese citizenship if you were not born in China, ...

I analyse the four big issues in the Ukraine/Russia negotiations to end the war and what a potential peace deal could entail. I praise the recent change from President Trump on these issues.

Foreign Minister Winston Peters is celebrating former Speaker of the House Trevor Mallard being replaced as Ambassador to Ireland. Peters named Angela Hassan-Sharp for the role in a statement about ...

I recently discovered that perhaps the most vocal and unabashed proxy in New Zealand for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) lives in a street adjoining my own. His name is Morgan Xiao and while I don’t ...