The Auditor General’s damning report on the school lunch programme– and the litany of callous bungles it has uncovered – should require associate education minister David Seymour to be offering his ...

Briefly a member of the war cabinet overseeing the Gaza war, [Eisenkot] has attacked Netanyahu for bowing too readily to U.S. demands for a ceasefire in ​Lebanon to settle the Iran conflict. He calls ...

This week, the Werewolf series of essays on classic children’s books features Susan Cooper’s 1973 novel The Dark Is Rising. The antlered horseman on the cover of The Dark is Rising is a depiction of ...

Political myths die hard. For decades it has been taken on faith – all evidence to the contrary – that those business-savvy National Party types really, really know how to run the economy, just as ...

When Britain tried (and failed) to re-take control of the Suez Canal in 1956, it marked the moment when a formerly Great Power was forced to accept that the jig was up, the goose was cooked, and that ...

Every three years around this time, the election campaign begins to feel a bit like the old carnival Ghost Train. All aboard. After the lurch into darkness and after careening around the first corners ...

The Werewolf series of essays on classic children’s books continues this week with Harriet The Spy by Louise Fitzhugh. Both Holden and Harriet M. Welsch are honest witnesses – spies, even – of a world ...

Here’s a snapshot of government priorities: one third of staff at a key facility that seeks to prevent the incidence of family and sexual violence are set to lose their jobs. The Centre for Family ...

In one sense, Peru is the poster child of political instability, having gone through nine presidents in the past 10 years, with several ending up in jail. Paradoxically, Peru has also been a model of ...

Ultimately, The Incredible Journey is worth admiring as much for what it avoids as for what it achieves. This is a story of friendship, loyalty and endurance between two dogs (a young retriever called ...

Lynda Topp can look after herself. Yet the rejoinder by Paul Goldsmith to her criticism of our irresponsible spending spree on Defence was so patronising it begs for a rebuttal. According to Goldsmith ...

The Luxon government won the last election by claiming that it alone possessed the managerial competence to fix the nation’s cost of living crisis. Three years later it is again patting itself on the ...