Yesterday’s press conference involving Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky suggests that the United States is now solidly ...

Read an amusing quora reply that rather crystallised my thinking on the US compared to here. It started as a click-bait ...

This morning on Radio New Zealand there was sharp questioning of Christopher Luxon by Ingrid Hipkiss and sharp analysis by Jo ...

The Green Party gave their annual State of the Planet speech yesterday. The video replay is on RNZ or Facebook. Text of the ...

I pointed out that Internal Affairs under Act Minister Brooke van Velden, had managed to lose RSS communications from the ...

Let me say at the outset that I am against sending people to prison unless there are compelling reasons for doing so. I would much rather New Zealand’s judges did not use remand and custodial ...

Women’s rights and protections are regressing on the international stage, from the Taliban’s erasure of women from public life to US President Donald Trump’s misogynistic rhetoric and decision to ...

In April 1941, Charles Lindbergh, the America First Committee’s most prominent leader, outlined his position that Nazi Germany’s victory was inevitable, that the United States should stay neutral and ...

Germany had its Federal Election this week, and, well, people are talking about the map: Yes. That looks very much like the old German Democratic Republic (GDR) reborn, aka East Germany. Only this ...

Although I do not usually write about NZ politics, I do follow them. I find that with the exception of a few commentators, coverage of domestic issues tends to be dominated by a fixation on ...

Yesterday we covered a big part of a recent speech by Minister of Housing and Transport Chris Bishop. One aspect we didn’t ...

There is an ongoing standoff between sellers who don’t want to take less than top dollar and buyers cautious about overpaying, while at the same time rental property investor demand is sliding. Photo: ...