As many readers will know 78 year-old Ann Widdecombe was (allegedly) murdered by a 28 year old. The murder is extremely disturbing, but so has been the Police statements on it. The allowed her ...

The other reason that National has reason to be disgusted at New Zealand First this week is because it is reinventing history in terms of its role in the ban on new oil and gas exploration in 2018.

Readers should click on the tweet above and read it in full. Basically he makes the following points: Our current global population of 8+ billion people is only alive because of a supply chain ...

Stuart Nash has confirmed he has resigned as a New Zealand First candidate, after backlash over his comments had become “a significant distraction”. It comes after Nash accused National’s Napier MP ...

A Labour MP is accusing Act’s Paul Henry of making a “death threat” against leader Chris Hipkins in a radio game, but the former broadcaster says there was no “violent rhetoric” and it was “plainly ...

A former political figure involved in a late night bar incident can now be named. Jack Brazil, a former Green Party candidate and high profile activist, appeared for sentencing before community ...

“History in its making” – readers will have noticed how “give or take possibly 5000 people being potentially protected” within a short sentence or two, became “those 5000 people, who don’t know who ...

New Zealand’s consumers price index (CPI) increased 4.1 percent in the 12 months to the June 2026 quarter, according to figures released by Stats NZ today. The largest upwards contributor to the ...

This is the latest data. Regular attendance dropped 16 percentage points or 25% from 2017 to 2023. A disaster. Since 2023 it has increased 17 percentage points or 37%. In real terms there are 157,000 ...

Agreed it’s mostly about the polling. The Nats have been bleeding votes in more than one direction. Their solution to the rightward bleed is this belated attempt to signal opposition to co-governance ...

A re-elected National Government will modernise sexual consent laws to specify there must always be a “yes,” rather than an absence of a “no,” National’s Justice spokesperson Paul Goldsmith says.

A depressing poll from Pew. This is the sad legacy of Trump. More people in the UK, Australia and Canada have a favourable view of China than the US.