At times, it is pretty hard to see what good the “free” market is doing for most of us. The usual responses – we all benefit when global commodity prices are sky high and anyway, what can you do about ...

Thiel may not be one of Trump’s regular Mar-a-Lago golfing buddies, but recent events have underlined his proximity to key White House decisions. Incredibly – and for no visible benefit in return – ...

As the Greens regulation spokesperson Francisco Hernandez told RNZ, one UK study showed that AI would reduce public service labour costs by only about 5%. With the Bill, Hernandez says, money is being ...

Duly noted, but the Luxon government’s stance on climate change does seem strikingly inconsistent. For starters, New Zealand claims to still be committed to the emissions targets contained in the ...

Funny how “blow-out” gets so readily applied to cost escalation in the provision of public services (hospital rebuilds, the Cook Strait ferries) but when politicians […] Gordon Campbell On The Costs ...

When the politician pushing a controversial piece of legislation starts accusing his critics of “derangement syndrome” – as David Seymour has done this week – […] ...

Heaven forbid that an abrasive punk duo that calls itself Bob Vylan should lead a hostile chant at the Glastonbury music festival against a military organisation – not a state, not an ethnic group – ...

Heavens to Betsy. Let me get this right. In her own opinion column, a female journalist (the fearsome Andrea Vance) used a bad word to refer to female politicians who had just extinguished the ability ...

As Donald Trump zigs and zags on tariffs and trashes America’s reputation as a safe and stable place to invest, China has a big gun that it could bring to this tariff knife fight. Behind Japan, China ...

Any New Orleans native who call a song “Rising Sun” and who begins each chorus with the line “ There is a house in New Orleans” is aware of the weight of tradition. A word here for producer Kyp Malone ...