Chris Trotter

HERE’S ONE for the “We told you so!” file.

Labour’s blatant misrepresentation of its own history continues.

I’M NOT QUITE SURE that I agree with Matt McCarten. He takes the view that, with the benefit of hindsight,…

DECIDING whether Bernard Hickey or Megan Woods deserves a big fat raspberry is the task I’ve set myself. To understand…

LIZ GORDON deserves our thanks. Not only for her most recent posting on the shocking findings of the Christchurch Girls…

CONSERVATIVE POLITICS in New Zealand is running out of puff.

IF YOU WANT to understand what’s rotting the Labour Party’s political soul, read Neale Jones’ latest posting on The Spinoff.    A really good novelist would struggle to create a more self-characterising narrator than Neale.

WITH LABOUR polling in the mid-to-high 40s, and the Greens around 10 percent, the Left dominates New Zealand politics. At least, that is what it would like us to believe. In fact, the Left’s current dominance of New Zealand politics is both highly unusual and extremely fragile.

IF WINSTON PETERS did not exist, the Right would have to invent him – and it can’t.

PERHAPS THE MOST ASTONISHING aspect of School Strike For Climate Auckland’s (SSFCA) spectacular self-cancellation was the media’s lack of interest.