Several cases of potentially defamatory comments, breaches of privacy and unsupported assertions were found in Youth MPs’ draft speeches by officials tasked with reviewing them before delivery during ...

Human progress continues, with some backsliding. Since publishing two books on human progress (The Better Angels of Our Nature, 2011, and Enlightenment Now, 2018), every year I update my graphs on the ...

Bold ambition and fearless execution – that’s what it has taken to get intense bilateral negotiations between India and New Zealand finalised so a trade deal could be announced just before the country ...

Forgot to mention on Day 2, that the Tuhoe hut warden at Waiopaoa Hut was superb. She told us some of the history of the area, the legends about Lake Waikaremona, and also opened it up to general ...

The Herald’s Thomas Coughlan on Politician of the Year: That leaves, by a whisker, the winner: Chris Bishop (it’s a good year for Chrises from the Hutt). Associate Finance Minister, Transport Minister ...

Please all take note of this very sound advice from Kowtow! 5 3 Log in to Reply Report January 14, 2026 9:19am ...

Day 2 was a downhill day. Started off high up in typical NZ bush. There were around 250 steps going down. I was glad we had them down, not up. I much prefer a sloping track to steps. Even when there ...

Last night I had the beautiful privilege of going to a remarkable concert at Vector Arena in Auckland. My beautiful wife and I drove in from Dairy Flat with only minor delays, near the port, due to ...

January 15, 2026 8:00am by Kokila Patel General Debate 15 January 2026 ...

The Taxpayers’ Union today mourns the passing of Garrick Tremain, widely regarded as New Zealand’s finest and most influential political cartoonist of the contemporary era. Garrick Tremain and Tom ...

When Christopher Luxon promised in a TVNZ debate in 2023 that he would get a trade deal within his first term of government, it seemed fantastical. Trade talks with India had more or less been shelved ...

A recent report from the Buckley Institute found that there are no Republican faculty members across 27 departments at Yale University. ... It found that nearly 83% of faculty are registered Democrats ...