There are times I can comprehend why Nikolai Tesla fell in love with a pigeon. Humanity can at times seem unloveable. There was method in Te...

Fry - John Key. I have a pizza for I.C. Weiner..? Leela - Paula Bennett. Mutant former DPB Mum turned kung fu conservative. Bender- Tim Gros...

As a long time activist for changing the flag, my conscience is prodding me to write something of substance on National's flag referendu...

For a party professing one law for all, the National Party has a problem on its hands with its Health & Safety legislation. It could be ...

As I type, a debate over whether the Hawke's Bay amalgamates into a single council rages at Napier Boys' High School, which was part...

I've been living in Napier a month. Here's six thoughts either way on the town so far: Six of the Best #1: Cycling . Apart from the ...

Casting the National Party for Footrot Flats: Wal: John Key. The lovable fallible everyman you'd have a beer with. Cooch: Bill English. ...

Artist Grahame Sydney was on NatRad this afternoon criticising the Change the Flag campaign when what we really should be changing is the N...

A couple of days ago, Bastille Day in fact, I observed that it was 31 years since the Fourth Labour Government swept into power with a lands...

The Judicial Review of the Hager raid by the police last year has finished Day One of an anticipated three day season. Jon Stephenson cov...

We were somewhere on Auckland's North Shore when the bus ran out of diesel. Driver had forgotten to check the tank with the stick that m...

My suspicions were first aroused when my property manager told me not to panic. The absentee landlord in Australia had decided to sell up, b...

There is at least one fundamental thread woven through the fabric of recent scandals that seems to have been left out of the dialogue so far...

Back in the dawn of the 1980's, my old man tried his hand at running kiwifruit on a farm out west of Tauranga. We lived in caravans next...

The old man and I were walking along Mayoral Drive in the Auckland CBD one afternoon back in the '90s. Another even older man had just w...