Despite the rhetoric around savings, what the Government has largely done is cut in some areas to fund increases in others. If successful strategies are about aligning resources to priorities, that ...
New Zealand’s problem is not simply that government gets things wrong. It is that government often has no reliable way to understand how one decision interacts with another across the whole system.
On 7 May, there will be elections in Scotland, Wales and much of England. Up will be: 5,066 councillors on 136 English councils Six directly elected Mayors The latest poll projections have Labour ...
Both parties in the US have at times gerrymandered their electoral maps to favour themselves, as boundaries have to be redrawn every 10 years after a census. Last year the GOP, pressed by Trump, did a ...
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Soper on Ardern

There is one verdict that stands out among others, however, his scathing assessment of Dame Jacinda Ardern. He even weaponises her self-deprecating admission that she suffered from “imposter syndrome” ...
The Government has signed a “letter of intent” with Z Energy to procure 90 million litres of diesel, which is the equivalent of an additional nine days’ supply. The fuel will be delivered to Marsden ...
At this point in 2023, National had launched its income tax policy, its FamilyBoost childcare policy, its renewable electricity generation policy, its policy on interest deductibility for rentals, its ...
May 1, 2026 8:00am by Kokila Patel General Debate 01 May 2026 ...
The Court of Appeal has dismissed the appeal by Brenton Tarrant as “utterly devoid of merit”. The weasel realised he was going to lose, so tried to drop the appeal, but the court refused, and have ...