John Tamihere is defending the use of data at Manurewa Marae, saying there's no evidence of any wrong doing. ... How to protect more Australian homes from the growing risks of floods, fires and other ...

Chris Luxon has doubled down on a dog whistle attack on South Auckland garages by apologising if anyone was offended, thereby ignoring most of South Auckland who were definitely offended.

The waka of the National Party is a slick shiny speed machine that is built for speed and efficiency. It has a highly trained team of professional rowers that is supported by a rich club. Its strength ...

This is politics as it should and could be: human, honest while retaining boundaries, insightful without the need for politicking.

Chris Hipkins is now set to become prime minister. I rather expected that would be the likely outcome. Helps the election campaign as it will mute the revolting misogynist arsehole conservatives of ...

Halfway up a historic tower in York, we are neither up nor down. At the top you will have views of a city steeped in antiquity, made and remade by Romans, Normans, Vikings, Tescos. Below, you will ...

Now I sure don’t like him, but the U.S. President-Elect Donald Trump makes more things possible in the Middle East than the Biden administration. For the sake of this proposal let’s make a whole group ...

Right wing twitter thought it was onto something big yesterday after there were revelations that Human Rights Commissioner Meng Foon had donated funds and cheap premises to Kiri Allan's election ...

The problem was always going to be that the Israeli Defence Force has better PR. Here’s what I saw play out on twitter and with a bit of a foray into MSM (Guardian etc). Activists including Greta ...

Here we are in May already! And here are a few of the stories that caught our eye this week. This Week on Greater Auckland On Monday, Matt highlighted that it’s been a decade since Auckland’s rail ...

Back in the days when I blogged on my own rather obscure website I started to receive attention because I talked about the internal workings of the Labour Party. Then one day I received an email from ...

Dan Bidois has unwittingly disclosed National’s approach to all problems. Basically everything can be traced back to giving police greater powers to deal with gangs and take their guns off them. And ...