Author: Chris Trotter

THE “CONVERSATION” demanded on the meaning of the Treaty of Waitangi is likely to be short. Not because there is…

IF (OR SHOULD THAT BE ‘WHEN’) Winston Peters hits the comeback trail, Labour should look to its defences. Having transformed…

I’M NOT all that interested in Maori Separatism. It does not require much in the way of historical or rhetorical…

THE REACTION to Judith Collins’ speech to National’s Northern Regional Conference (1/5/21) was always going to be instructive. It would…

IS WINSTON PETERS on the comeback trail? At 76 years of age, there are many who say that Winston is…

THERE IS NOTHING WRONG with being bold, the real trick is to be bold about the right things. Is “Health…

TE HUIA, the “fast train” to “Auckland” has been a subject of some contention in my family.

Because people aren’t dying, it is tempting to confer retrospective competence upon a bureaucracy which, in the months since the decisive battle against Covid in March and April of 2020, has demonstrated almost unbelievable ineptitude.

MIKE LEE is the closest Auckland has come to a socialist leader since Mayor “Robbie” (Sir Dove Meyer Robinson) back…

MUCH IS BEING MADE of the fact that New Zealand firms are exporting military equipment to unsavoury regimes.