My view on the politics of US shutdowns is simple - the side that makes demands, and votes against a clean continuing resolution tends to eventually be blamed for it, and backs down. The Republicans ...

An interesting research note from Eric Crampton and at the NZ Initiative on the benefits of devolution on development. It details how Canadian First Nations have transformed their economic fortunes ...

An interesting poll of Jewish Americans that shows they have a large variety of views on Israel and the Middle East. They are nota homogenous bloc. Key findings are: 61% say Israel has committed war c ...

The Green Party’s director of communications, Louis Day, has resigned just weeks after its now-former chief of staff, Eliza Prestidge-Oldfield, made the same decision. My first reaction to this story ...

So lawmakers have looked at the gap and thought about the fact that what you watch or listen to on the internet may not be subject to any official standards regime. And, so far, they have decided to ...

The Trump plan is a roadmap to peace which delivers every single anti-war and pro-peace objective: an immediate end to the war, Israeli withdrawal, the release of over 2,000 Palestinian detainees in ...

It is heartening to see Winston Peters, David Seymour and Todd Stephenson lash the Broadcasting Standards Authority for their secret decision to expand their regime to the Internet. Winston may have ...

If you have quarter of an hour to spare, I would recommend reading the speeches in Parliament marking the death of New Zealand's 35th Prime Minister. I've extracted a few quotes below. Christoper ...

The Broadcasting Standards Authority has made a secret in principle decision that they have authority over any entity or person that produces audio or video content over the Internet. This is an ...

A great speech where Casey Costello calls out the nonsense from Benjamin Doyle that Parliament is hostile if you're not a "cis straight white man". Casey of course is not white or a man. Neither are ...

Jim Bolger has died, aged 90. Hs was National's third longest serving leader, and a massive political figure whose tenure was hugely impactful on New Zealand. I knew him reasonably well. He was party ...