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"Dammit! Where Did I Leave My Party?" What we saw over the weekend of 6-8 August 2021 was a party which no longer knows how to pl...

The Dancing Queen: The lesson delivered was as old as electoral politics itself: Dance with the person you came with. Or, more prosaically:...

Let's Do This NOW! Elections are won when the electorate’s general preference for prosperity and stability is overwhelmed by its des...

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...

Face Of The Nation: To an extent that Labour never quite matched, the National Party became the mouthpiece for its class. Its “organic ...

American Cynicism vs Danish Idealism: That the ruthless and corrupt hero of House of Cards , Francis Underwood, so completely captivate...

Honestly, John's Victory Was This Big! The ease with which false information can be transformed into an ostensible statement of fact...

Horizontal Revolution: Labour's (and Labor's) inspirational leaders of the 1960s and 70s, Norman Kirk and Gough Whitlam, both g...

Public Service Notice: Across the Western World there is evidence that the political parties ostensibly standing for progressive change ...

"To the Revolution!" IT’S THE DAY AFTER the 2014 General Election. We’re at Matthew Hooton ’s splendid residence in Parnell and...