Labour finally came down off the fence last week and agreed to give National the votes required to get the free trade deal with India through Parliament, after New Zealand First came out against it.

As Gautam Mukunda of the Yale School of Management has wryly pointed out to Bloomberg News, AI machines are often wrong, but they are never uncertain. Reportedly, “I don’t know” responses result in ...

Christopher Luxon survived Tuesday’s caucus vote and confidently declared his leadership to now be a settled matter, and told the media to treat it as such. Less confidently, he refused to take any ...

Clearly, last year’s fears of a stockmarket “AI bubble” have long gone. AI firms and related stocks are now being treated as the backbone of […] ...

Does National really want to devote itself to keeping the Luxon balloon aloft until November? Talking through clenched teeth can be so stressful. The centre right is not normally known for tolerating ...

Funny…back when Russia invaded Ukraine, New Zealand didn’t wait for Vladimir Putin to tell us whether his acts of aggression were legal under international law ...

Oil prices are still rising amid fears that Iran may be laying mines in the Straits of Hormuz. The initial market confidence that the US would speedily bring this war to a happy conclusion has all but ...

So asset sales are back on the agenda, and will be dependent only on the coalition government getting re-elected next year. Yikes. Right wing governments are forever selling off the assets created by ...

Reportedly, the on again, off again debate between Ruth Richardson and Nicola Willis may be on again. Fabolous. Nothing can help us better understand a wildly contentious issue than having someone ...

Two big calls this week by the two real decision makers in this government. First, David Seymour all but sank the government’s plan to make retailers (not banks) suck up the entire cost of scrapping ...

In his tilt at the leadership last November, Chris Bishop plainly forgot Omar’s excellent advice from The Wire: “If you come at the king, better not miss.” He’s now paid the price. Yet in the wake of ...

In the wake of Winston Peters lame response to the US attack on Venezuela, its almost enough to make one yearn for the good old days when Murray McCully was our Foreign Minister. Here’s the gist of ...