Opinion

Earlier this month, I got to experience the "new left" firsthand. Within five minutes of arriving at Aotea Square, the handful of police officers on the scene radioed for backup.

The transition in the Prime Minister’s office which saw Bill English replace John Key as National party leader was seen as a return to the governing party’s roots of social conservatism. Former Prime Minister Key was seen as a social liberal, free-marketeer who vocally backed gay marriage and ...

Ten years ago this week, on the 10th of February 2007, President Vladimir Putin of Russia made a cut through speech at the 43rd Munich Security Conference. Exposing the hypocrisy of US/NATO/EU controlled international security policy, the speech was a concise, intelligent and insightful and pointed ...

Last year, I got my first ever summons for jury duty. Some are excited by this and others view it with dread. I was in the former camp, not out of a special sense of duty, but because I wanted to experience our justice system for myself.

New Zealand politics aficionados went abuzz this week over the Labour Party’s announcement that former broadcaster Willie Jackson will be a candidate in the 2017 general elections under their banner. Jackson is a perennial figure in Maori affairs, his stint as a talkback radio host was used to ...

The New Zealand government is considering a proposal to devolve the funding of the provision of various government funded services to local boards in certain demarcated regions.

Liberal outrage is like a flavour of the month: it’s always something else every once in a while. The most recent flavour is with regards to President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting immigration from a host of different countries. The list includes Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, ...

For a while it looked like the elite would do anything to stop Brexit from happening. London will secede! The Supreme Court will block it! The Labour Party will block it! It seems now, though that reality has dawned on the political elite.

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water............. guess what ? The multi-national crony capitalist sharks are still circling the boat, the world government giant squid are still breeding in the shallows, and the back door communist monster creature is still lurking in the deep ...

The dust is now settling after the epic US Presidential election. Donald J Trump has finally been sworn in. The world is transfixed to see how the first few days and weeks of his administration will unfold. Let's not forget, however, one of the major scandals highlighted during the bitter campaign ...