New Zealand
Close polls puzzle pundits as NZ election looms
Centre-right voters are increasingly wondering how many more disasters it will take to seriously dent the government’s poll numbers. Whether…
Will New Zealand regret kowtowing to China?
New Zealand is reliant upon China, a country that makes up about a third of its export market. So, when…
Second term government, third term problems
They say a new broom sweeps clean, and that is certainly the case with the premiership of Prime Minister Chris…
New Zealand: are bilingual road signs safe?
At a time when the dilapidated state of New Zealand’s roads are a major public concern and the government has…
From comrade to Dame in a New York minute
They say that a week is a long time in politics and indeed that seems to be truer now than…
Kiwis are tiring of New Zealand’s blundering prime minister
It’s all going wrong for New Zealand’s prime minister Chris Hipkins. Hipkins’s laidback, convivial persona and managerial skills were seen…
Saint Jacinda becomes a dame
‘I was in two minds about accepting this acknowledgment,’ says the now Dame Jacinda Ardern, reflecting on how ‘humbled’ she…
Has New Zealand found the key to the UK’s housing crisis?
It may be difficult to imagine a housing crisis more dismal than the one Britain is experiencing right now, but…
New Zealand’s opposition embroiled in AI-attack ad storm
New Zealand’s opposition National party has admitted using artificial intelligence (AI) to generate fake images for its political attack ads.…
What is a woman? Don’t ask!
New Zealand’s PM apparently doesn’t know
Is New Zealand that bothered about becoming a republic?
The prime minister of New Zealand, Chris Hipkins, has said he wants his country to end constitutional ties with Britain…
Ardern’s Aotearoa adieu
Her trademark empathy on full display, Jacinda Ardern, the antipodean icon of female empowerment, recently delivered her farewell speech to…
Jacinda Ardern’s disappearing act
Former New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern bade farewell to parliament a few weeks ago. Ardern had resigned as PM in…
New Zealand’s Voice divided us
As a nation that stood proudly on the world stage as one of the most tolerant and inclusive societies in…
The religion of gender
I don’t know about you, but the days following the Let Women Speak riot in Auckland have changed my life.…
Identity politics and the challenge to conservatism
In the aftermath of Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull’s visit to New Zealand, Prime Minister Hipkins was embarrassed at his regular post-Cabinet press…
Watch: Jacinda Ardern’s final cringeworthy speech as PM
It’s a bad time for soporific narcissists in office. Just weeks after the self-indulgent grandstanding of Nicola Sturgeon’s farewell press…
Ardern’s last speech to Parliament commits her to climate action
Remember when Jacinda Ardern said, rather tearfully, ‘I don’t have enough in the tank.’ A sniffle later, the former Prime…
Watch: Jacinda Ardern’s successor struggles to define a woman
Is Labour’s state of confusion about sex and gender going global? Labour leader Keir Starmer was widely mocked this weekend…
Letter from down under
The mob lunged towards me, screeching and grabbing, and I knew that if I fell I would never get up.…
The death of New Zealand’s MSM
Until recently I was a member of the mainstream media in New Zealand. A proud member. I have loved being…
New Zealand has much to learn from the treatment of Posie Parker
A promotional clip for New Zealand uploaded to social media the other day looked like the usual decorous fare churned…
The Posie Parker mob has embarassed New Zealand
New Zealand has, until recently, dwelt in splendid isolation during the culture wars. Kiwis have typically been reluctant to discuss…
New Zealand shows us how the Voice will work
There were two important announcements on Thursday March 16, concerning the question that will be asked at the Voice to…
The shameful persecution of Posie Parker in New Zealand
This is what it must have been like when women were marched to the stake. Yesterday in Auckland the British…
