Author: Ian Powell

Veteran political journalist Vernon Small’s latest regular paywalled column in Stuff’s Sunday Star Times (3 August) has brought to life…

The business case used to justify the Government’s decision to establish a third medical school at Waikato University “…seemed to…

On 21 May I was introduced to two new words (always a moment of light excitement for me) by Dr…

If there was a ‘most prolific blogger while still being consistently thought-provoking’ award it would be hard to beat Bomber…

I still remember metaphorically sitting at the knee of legendary union leader Bill Andersen while listening to him opine pearls…

In Aotearoa New Zealand’s health system there are 36 branches of vocational (specialist) medicine registered by the Medical Council. These…

I have published three previous blog posts on Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza by means of genocide. Ethnic…

On 21 November 2021 Winston Peters posted on X (Twitter) that New Zealand has a government that “…has an unhealthy penchant…

In the referendum on assisted dying in which it was voted in by a decisive majority (65%) in 2020, I…

My last Political Bytes post (28 May) discussed why New Zealand should officially recognise the state of Palestine: New Zealand should…