Businesses need confidence in how governments are chosen and the policies they pursue. That makes an obscure MMP feature worth our attention. Read more

It is election time in New Zealand and as such, political tragics like myself cannot have any meetings without the conversation turning to the question “And, who will win on 7 November?” But something is different this year. Not just because the election is so tight with both the centre-left and the centre-right bloc neck and neck in the polls. Read more

Here is a paradox that ought to trouble ministers more than any single threat named in the NZSIS’s 2026 Security Threat Environment report, released in August. The New Zealand Government has never had more useful intelligence available to it than it does today. Read more

Unless you’ve been living under a rock and avoiding the internet entirely (and really who could blame you in an election year) you’ll have seen the controversy about Kiwibank’s new mascot. The problem isn’t the mascot itself – a cute little sheep named Buck. Read more