In Budget 2026 there was also no discernible plan to lift the country’s dismal growth and productivity figures. As Business Canterbury CEO Leanne Watson damningly put it: At first glance, there isn’t ...

This week for instance, RNZ’s Ingrid Hipkiss asked Hipkins to explain how in the short term, Labour’s capital gains tax can possibly pay for Labour’s promise of three free doctors visits a year, given ...

The Werewolf series on classic children’s books continues this week with the bedtime favourite Goodnight Moon, and the brief life of the tragic genius who wrote it. Right up until the final editorial ...

According to Finance Minister Nicola Willis, trashing the public service (“an old clunky system” says Willis, a “make work scheme” says Christopher Luxon, “a job creation scheme” says Chris Bishop) is ...

The Werewolf series on classic children’s books continues this week with the bedtime favourite Goodnight Moon, and the brief life of the tragic genius who […] ...

In the wake of the IPCA report, it is easy to understand why the politicians have been so willing to endorse terms like “cover up” and “ corruption.” It is convenient to explain what went wrong in ...

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.

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 ...

Every Friday, Werewolf is re-publishing some essays about classic children’s book, that I began writing in 2009. This essay on Badger’s Parting Gifts has been slightly updated: Maybe the only thing ...

About 15 years ago on Werewolf, I started writing a series of articles about classic children’s books. Over the next few months, these articles will be re-published here, every Friday. The series ...

In the wake of WW2, immigration policy was driven by a mixture of compassion for the refugees of war, and by a less admirable desire to replenish our ranks (preferably) with the racial stock of the ...