At Patreon I have done my normal monthly analysis of the polls and fundamentals in Australia, Canada, NZ, UK and US. I note: In the wake of the Bondi Beach terrorist attack, the Australian Government ...

Te Pāti Māori says it will abolish prisons by 2040 in favour of community-led solutions to address the enormous inequities facing the country’s indigenous people – if it gets into power at the next ...

In 2015, for example, 6,852 of the 8,760 complaints submitted to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport originated from one residence in the affluent Foxhall neighborhood of northwest Washington, ...

New Zealand likes to think of itself as a rich country that has simply lost its way for a while. The reality is more uncomfortable. We are managing our own economic decline, steadily, deliberately, ...

The chief constable of West Midlands Police has retired after damning criticism of a decision to ban Israeli fans from a match against Aston Villa. Craig Guildford's retirement was confirmed on Friday ...

Iran is bleeding again and as an Iranian New Zealander, I am severely worried by what is happening in my country of birth. This piece is about why the Iranian situation demands international ...

PC Cliff Mitchell applied to join the Met in 2020, but the vetting process flagged up a previous allegation of raping a child in 2017, and his application was rejected. However, a vetting panel, made ...

I spent my summer holiday sprawled on Takapuna beach reading the memoirs of Eli Sharabi, an Israeli who was held hostage by Hamas following October 7 2023. It was a highly thought provoking book for ...

As almost everyone knows, Manage my Health was hacked by someone seeking a $60,000 ransom in return for not releasing the hacked files, which appear to be uploaded health documents. I don't criticise ...

This week the NZ Herald reported that Mangere College was put under statutory management. While appointing a limited statutory manager for a school in NZ is not highly unusual - this is the first time ...

Andy Reid had been in Afghanistan for three months when the incident happened that would change his life forever. Out on a routine patrol in the Helmand Province, he stood on a Taliban improvised ...