Sometime I wonder exactly how much news is generated by the media internally. A TV3 poll on “The Vote” asked whether New Zealanders considered New Zealand to be a Racist country. Apparently 76% of people thought we were. I question the validity of these TV run polls and wonder if they are not just simply [...]

If ever there was a dangerously inappropriate political football, it is the potential sale of Crafar farms to the Chinese company, Shanghai Pengxin and the hysterical xenophobia it has induced. While the furor has managed successfully to paint National into a very uncomfortable corner, it has also made all future overseas purchases significantly more difficult. Like [...]

I see Paul Henry is in trouble again. This time over suggesting that foreign doctors aren’t as good as those trained in New Zealand. I suspect he makes stupid comments like this deliberately, because he knows they are good for ratings. As a foreign-trained doctor myself, I find it hard to take offense at Henry’s [...]