The Medical Council has proposed a statement on cultural competence that is basically a political litmus test. It is outrageous overreach, and an example of why Parliament needs to rein in all these ...

The Taxpayer's Union has done a report listing 103 ways local government can save money. Some of the more significant ones which I support are: Install water meters Avoid excessive advertising Do ...

In this part, I look at how often urgency has been used to bypass select committee consideration of a bill, and also how often the 6 months standard consultation period has been reduced. This practice ...

March 17, 2026 8:00am by Kokila Patel General Debate 17 March 2026 ...

Former wife of Labour leader Chris Hipkins, Jade Paul, has posted a series of unsubstantiated personal claims about their relationship on social media - claims Hipkins says he “reject[s] entirely”. In ...

John Davidson has Tourette syndrome. He has the variety where he uncontrollably yells out offensive things. It isn't what he is really thinking. It is just part of who he is. He has campaigned for ...

As a keen follower of Parliament, one of the issues I have tracked in the past has been use of urgency. Back in around 2011 I was concerned about the amount of urgency being used, and actually worked ...

A short video went viral last weekend that briefly restored my faith in British policing. It showed a female Metropolitan Police officer standing alone in Whitechapel, surrounded by a crowd of angry ...

The official New Zealand Parliament account has announced it will no longer be posting on X (formerly Twitter) - and Winston Peters isn’t happy about it. Neither is Chris Bishop, not me. The account, ...

The debate over whether Tamatha Paul bears meaningful responsibility for Wellington’s sewage crisis has gathered pace and heat in equal measure. At the centre of it sits a blog post attributed to a ...

I've just been looking at the 19 charter schools approved to date, and am impressed with how well they cater for all types of kids, They are not about replicating state schools, but providing ...

The study by Caroline Shaw, Ryan Gage, Alice Miller, Katherine Cullerton, and Alex Macmillan looked at five years of ministerial diaries for transport and associate transport ministers, from October ...