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.

The National Party caucus has got itself into in a real bind. For weeks, their Cabinet Ministers and MPs have had their work cut out trying to look credible while voicing their undying loyalty to an ...

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 ...

In stark contrast, Trump sent J.D. Vance, his friend the real estate tycoon Steve Witkoff, and Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner. None of them have any background in diplomacy or in the details of the ...

Hungary has made its mark before on the world stage. (Composer: Bela Bartok; ballpoint pen inventor: Laszlo Biro; national dish: goulash.) Even so, why did Donald Trump, J.D. Vance, Benjamin Netanyahu ...

The National Party caucus seems to have a death wish. In increasingly “uncertain and volatile times,” it has placed all its bets on the guy […] ...

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 ...

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 ...

The recently infamous “I’m the CEO/ Your job is the Prime Minister” exchange between Christopher Luxon and Tova O’Brien should be a defining moment in Luxon’s downward trajectory as the leader of the ...

At what point does a Cabinet minister distorting the statistics on issues in their portfolio amount to a sackable offence? Earlier this week, Children’s Minister Karen Chhour was publicly celebrating ...