No current MPs have had significant demotions, but there has been some movement with Andrew Hoggard up 2 and Todd Stephenson down 2. Both in very winnable places. On the current average of the public ...

Embedded below is a very brief Reader's Survey. Grateful if you can take two minutes to complete it. Keen to both get a demographic profile of who is currently reading Kiwiblog, but also to understand ...

Cass, it is interesting to note Russia, Japan and Poland are relatively free of illegal migrants from Africa. Those countries which are overrun with fighting age males have dismal armed forces and in ...

Data centres turn renewable electricity into exportable machine intelligence - a modern extension of New Zealand’s long history of exporting energy embodied in products. • Few direct jobs relative to ...

Three years ago I argued in favour of pricing congested roads. At the time it was largely a debate about whether Auckland should introduce congestion charging at all. That debate has moved on. The ...

A reader writes in: t may be just me, but the debate about Ai at the moment feels very Douglas Adams and Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. So, I had a long discussion with Ai about the situation, ...

I remember when a defibrilator was donated to the Waipawa Bowling Club 30 odd years ago. It sat on the wall in a handy position for someone to grab if needed for years. Problem was there was not one ...

Because so many enslaved people in the Muslim slave markets were of Slavic (central and eastern europe) origin, the ethnic name itself became the common noun. For every Slavonic slave who reached his ...

Have been sent multiple copies of this speech by the Chief Ombudsman. It has raised many many eyebrows. He is an Independent Officer of Parliament, but shouldn't claim to speak with the mana of the ...

So a huge swing from CDU to AFD. You need 42 seats to govern. The AFD are not quite there but a grand coalition is hard to see.as The Left and BSW are very hard left parties and if CDU tries to govern ...

A house effect, in polling terms, is the measurement of whether polls form one company for a party differ from the average of all the other polls for that party. It isn’t bias, it is just saying this ...

I thought people might be interested in what have been the lows and highs in the last 12 months in the monthly Taxpayers' Union - Curia poll for each political party. The election is certainly not ...