Election 2025: And We’re Off
How is the field looking as the first week of the campaign unfolds?
Real Good Oil
In depth political articles for VIP members
It Is Australia’s Big Bribe
Labor’s cynical election budget bribes appear to be having the desired effect.
Stop and Search
Tamatha Paul should investigate the consequences of what happened to her party’s electoral support in 2017 – the last time a young(ish) wahine Māori gave Green voters cause to doubt her party’s attachment to the rule of law.
The Power of Kindness
More exclusive excerpts from Jacinda Ardern’s upcoming memoir (part four).
How This Republican Atheist Found God and King
Atheism and republicanism are childish things I learned to put away.
This Won’t Work
Why challenging Donald Trump’s executive authority in the courts is unlikely to end happily.
The Second Worst Polls Since MMP
Someone needs to do something big and bold and they need to do it right now, because current polling suggests that, if they don’t, they will be New Zealand’s first one-term government in 51 years.
Whom Should New Zealand Deport?
Which of our foreign-born population could we most do without? With more than a quarter of us born overseas, there are a lot to choose from.
The Ebb and Flow
The War on Woke in the United States, and here in New Zealand, is starting to get tricky.
A Defence of Musk and Masculine Virtues
The importance of traffic cones at the top of trees.
In Two Minds and Out of Both of Them
The sheer humbug of transgenderism’s unexamined catchwords.
Trump and the US Gravitational Pull
A determined American president does not need to retreat before the angry objections of globalisation’s defenders: not when he commands the economic and military resources of the world’s most powerful nation state.
How to Improve School Lunches
If the state must usurp parental duties and feed the nation’s children, it should at least try and retain an educational flavour. Below is a list of menu options that would be guaranteed to teach the kids something.
A Steadily Deranged World Makes Lushy a Malcontent
Dispatches from the edge of a temporarily unbalanced Aussie mind.
These Are Just Impossible Things
The collective memory of the average Kiwi voter warns them that although the promise of a good life for everybody sounds wonderful, the Greens would never entrust the ordinary people of New Zealand with the power to make it happen – and neither would their bosses.