Despite the rhetoric around savings, what the Government has largely done is cut in some areas to fund increases in others. If successful strategies are about aligning resources to priorities, that ...

New Zealand’s problem is not simply that government gets things wrong. It is that government often has no reliable way to understand how one decision interacts with another across the whole system.

May 3, 2026 8:00am by Kokila Patel General Debate 03 May 2026 ...

On 7 May, there will be elections in Scotland, Wales and much of England. Up will be: 5,066 councillors on 136 English councils Six directly elected Mayors The latest poll projections have Labour ...

Both parties in the US have at times gerrymandered their electoral maps to favour themselves, as boundaries have to be redrawn every 10 years after a census. Last year the GOP, pressed by Trump, did a ...

The Government has signed a “letter of intent” with Z Energy to procure 90 million litres of diesel, which is the equivalent of an additional nine days’ supply. The fuel will be delivered to Marsden ...

There is one verdict that stands out among others, however, his scathing assessment of Dame Jacinda Ardern. He even weaponises her self-deprecating admission that she suffered from “imposter syndrome” ...

At this point in 2023, National had launched its income tax policy, its FamilyBoost childcare policy, its renewable electricity generation policy, its policy on interest deductibility for rentals, its ...

The Court of Appeal has dismissed the appeal by Brenton Tarrant as "utterly devoid of merit". The weasel realised he was going to lose, so tried to drop the appeal, but the court refused, and have ...

I heard some time ago the story that the TVNZ Political Editor called a (gay) journalist the fa***t word at a function in a Minister's office last year. I did not hear about it from an MP or staffer.