Opinion

Eight hours after becoming Leader of the Labour Party, Leader of the Opposition, and possibly future Prime Minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern was asked the question of our time: are you planning on having children and would that affect your performance?

The following article is one I wrote last year for another publication, which I have decided to republish in light of Labour's recent polling woes: New Zealand Labour Party 1916 - 2016 On behalf of the New Zealand political family, it is my sad duty to announce that the New Zealand Labour Party, ...

After the Northland shooting that left three dead and one more injured, the inevitable calls for more laws, more bans, more this and more that, we should all remember that it never stops. It's never enough. The UK is planning to ban home delivery of knives.

I’ve never met Gareth Morgan, but for some reason I find him intensely annoying. There’s something rather condescending and patronising about him, or at least how he comes across in his many media offerings. He definitely has a chronic case of cleverest-person-in-the-room syndrome. The instant ...

It's been 95 years since Ibn Saud established the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, signed the worst trade deal in the history of trade deals ever with the United States, and ushered in an era of Wahhabist Jihad funded by petrodollars.

In "SteynPost #18: The Biggest Issue of our Time," Mark Steyn covers Trump's Warsaw speech and highlights that "faith and family" are no more among the Europeans. Two-thirds of their leaders are childless, including every G7 leader.

I’m not sure if Kirsty Johnston’s article about the ‘Alt Right’ in New Zealand was more disingenuous or just hopelessly out of touch. Either way, she completely missed the mark as far as demonstrating understanding of the growing discontent in New Zealand and around the world with the political, ...

Anyone who has read the recent polls, even badly, knows that the New Zealand Labour Party are on course for a cataclysmic defeat in the September general election. Labour have dropped to 27% in the latest Colmar Brunton poll - on par with their crushing defeat in the 2011 election and barely two ...

Last week about two-thirds of the nations in the word voted on a legally binding treaty to ban nuclear weapons. While this might seem like a harmless measure, this is perhaps one of the more insane things that you will see come out of the UN.

The Kiwi Gun Blog has a story with some shocking numbers into just how few resources go into training policemen for the use of firearms.