The University of Auckland’s controversial Treaty of Waitangi and te ao Māori courses are unlikely to remain compulsory after negative feedback from staff and students, and criticism from politicians.

There is an article in the UK about an aborted prosecution of two men accused of spying for China. Basically Christopher Cash worked for the China Research Group, a group of Beijing-sceptic ...

Governments of the left like to claim they are transformational, when they're not. The Ardern Government achieved so little it was the opposite. They used wellbeing as a slogan, and did a couple of ...

Radio NZ today cover an Education Review Office Report on Education – with good detail. Two mentions I would highlight. 1. Why attitudes are improving. “The report said the improvements in student and ...

Speaking after the speech on the BBC's Politics Live, Lammy was asked whether he thought Farage was a racist. He said the PM had been calling out policies "that would line people up who have a right ...

The gunman who opened fire on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Dallas, killing a detainee and critically wounding two others, left behind a note saying that he hoped the attack would ...

The same judge who spared jail for a man who attacked someone burning a Quran with a knife gave a man a prison sentence for sending nasty email to John Bercow. Rule of lawyers in action… Judge Adam ...

I have blogged previously on the disgraceful retrospective law change the Government is trying to put through Parliament, to protect the ANZ and ASB banks from a four year old class action lawsuit ...

The purpose of the so called aid flotilla to Gaza isn't to deliver aid (they could deliver it via the normal route). It is to get arrested. It is worth noting Israel has failed at times to get enough ...

When Parliament says gang insignia “is forfeited to the Crown,” citizens are entitled to assume those words mean what they say. Yet on 11 August the District Court ruled otherwise. Judge Lance Rowe ...

Outgoing Wellington Mayor Tory Whanau has U-turned on plans for a future mayoral bid, and is instead looking to Parliament for a potential 2029 run with the Green Party. Wellington's loss will be New ...

This is appalling. As I have said on many occasions, no MPs should be targeted at their homes. They have offices and Parliament where you can protest their decisions. This is part of a trend of ...