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Going Down: The priorities of the Contemporary Left aren’t just depressing, they’re scary. Ordinary folk begin to ask themselves: if the ur...

Uniformly Diverse: There is one very simple reason why this government, comprised overwhelmingly of members of the Professional-Managerial ...

For The Few, Not The Many: In the face of the widening gulf between the rich and the poor, successive New Zealand governments have opted for...

A New Day: A middle-class concerned about preserving its own social status, and determined to prevent its children being forced to accept an...

Advocacy Journalism: Should a radical resetting of Auckland City’s priorities ever be undertaken in the way the “expert witnesses” quote...

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favour freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops...

The Way We Were: If what used to be called the social wage (education, health, welfare payments such as Working For Families) had to be p...

Who Should Fill The Seats Of Power? Stripped of its cloying political candy-floss, the diversity project is a pure-and-simple power grab....

It's Time! The cumulative effect of New Zealand politicians' twenty-year failure to keep strong a generalised faith in the possib...

And A Smile On The Face Of The Tiger: New Zealand has been fortunate in its political encounters with populism. Whether manifested in t...

Inside Man? Green Party Co-Leader, James Shaw: For the best part of a decade the Greens have been wrestling with the Outside/Insider di...

"Just when I thought I was out ..." The New Zealand Labour Party, like the New York Mafia, is a seething cauldron of thwarted...