Tracey Watkins bewails the apparent head-in-the-sand attitude of Key and English towards pensions. She and a number of other commentators recently have pointed out, correctly, that the present state of affairs cannot continue, in which people are able to draw a pension from age 65, but may live another 15-20 years. The logical thing to [...]

Don’t you just love Phil Goff’s pronouncements? Today he is telling the world that, if he was prime minister (which, thank the Lord, he is not), he would have stripped Richard Worth of his portfolio because he failed to manage a conflict of interest properly. Now, I agree this was a dumb thing to do. Worth [...]

Forget John Key and the H-fee. Don’t both with Winston’s Helicopter antics. The real dirty little secret of the election campaign is that people are suffering and even dying every day because of government ideology. Don’t believe me? Take a look at the comment of David “I’m in Charge” Cunliffe on the news that 10% of [...]