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Truth In Advertising: Labour, it would seem, is the party that knows nothing about running the economy right up until the moment that it...

Disharmonious Fists: China: the country which, unlike the United States, has been willing to open her markets to New Zealand’s agricultu...

Second-Class Non-Citizens: Australia's and New Zealand's Nineteenth Century immigration policies discriminated viciously against...

More Of The Same: In spite of the ongoing shortfall in the National Government's anticipated Core Crown tax revenues, Finance Minister,...

And Then What?: Only the criminally ill-informed and/or the hopelessly romantic believe that anyone but John Key will be prime-minister aft...

Registered In Flesh and Blood: If Bill English could see what his numbers added up to, I wonder: would his calculations be different? BUDG...

Raising The Stakes - But Not Too High: John Key knows that if he's to keep on winning the electorate must be persuaded to keep on playi...

Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat: Winston Churchill's words to the people of Britain during its "finest hour" in 1940 were so m...

Must Try Harder: Business commentators like Rod Oram (above) are constantly berating New Zealanders for their failure to grasp the nettle o...

To lose land is to lose sovereignty: This was the lesson Maori learned from Pakeha. Are all New Zealanders about to be taught the same lesso...

The rich aren't like us - they get bigger tax cuts. WE’VE BEEN FED the same message for twenty-five years. Over and over again it’s been...

Stalemate: New Zealand can move neither forwards, nor backwards, and yet it cannot stand still forever - but try telling New Zealanders that...

About time Atlas shrugged? The creator of this 19th Century political cartoon had no difficulty in identifying who carries who in capitalist...

Ideological Statement: Imposing a "public holiday" surcharge on cafe customers is a political - not a commercial - decision. IT’...

Saving Capitalism from itself: The global economy was rescued not by the actions of private individuals and corporations, but by the collec...