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Simon tripping Chippy on Jacinda's first day of Parliament News that Simon Bridges is stepping down is a big loss for National and a bigger loss for New Zealand politics. In another life, I think Simon Bridges!-->!-->…

Over the past 72 hours there have been reports of minor but significant Russian activity signaling potential Russian plans. This week's negotiations in Turkey have stalled and produced no significant breakthrough towards a peace…

For the first time, the National beat Labor in a major poll. NATIONAL: 39% WORK: 37% GREENS: 9% ACT: 8% Maori Party: 2% This is a shock wave from a poll. As TDB pointed out at the time, more than 50% of the!-->!-->…

Yesterday I predicted that the ground war would slow down. NATO remains firm, ruling out any commitment to intervention, thus giving the Russians time to slowly develop their operations, strangle Kiev and slowly advance towards their…

Matty has every right to look worried! I predicted that Putin would invade Ukraine. I argued that after the coup attempt in Kazakhstan earlier this year, Putin would decide that the West would never end its attempts!-->!-->…

Much has been said about the growing debacle involving the occupation in and around the Parliament grounds in Wellington. I have already blogged a review in my previous Policy bytes Publish: Far-Right Rights,!-->!-->…

WHERE IS THE REALITY amidst all these claims and counter-claims regarding the protest camp on the grounds of Parliament? In an excruciatingly postmodern political moment, reality seems to have vanished, leaving!-->!-->…

Threats of violence and abuse made by protesters in Parliament are not acceptable. While everyone has the right to protest in a liberal progressive democracy, threatening and abusing people is illegal and does not!-->!-->…

IT IS HARD to understand the police tactics on display today (02/10/22) outside Parliament. What is the goal of police commanders? To empty the parliamentary precinct of protesters, remove their tents and!-->!-->…

Hippocrates led to a fountain of medical ethical principles The Hippocratic Oath is an oath of medical ethics historically taken by all physicians. It is the first expression of medical ethics establishing several!-->!-->…

Treaty settlements: The most important understanding that Aotearoa New Zealand should draw from our current reality is that the vast majority of whanau Maori are worse off today than they were before the fourth!-->!-->…

If all the serious essays ever published on The Daily Blog have anything in common, it's that they express a desire for something better And most, regardless of politics or writers' biases, promote ideas that, in!-->!-->…

Inflation reaches its highest level in 30 years at 5.9% National Party leader Christopher Luxon has hit out at government “wasteful spending” after inflation hit a 30-year high of 5.9%. Consumer prices have risen!-->!-->…

There's a man running around taking namesAnd he decides who to free and who to blameNot everyone will be treated the sameThere will be a golden ladder coming downWhen the man comesThe hairs on your arm will stand!-->!-->…

WHAT WILL YOU EXPECT from a course dedicated to “Strategic Studies”? A reasonable expectation, surely, of a university course devoted to the study of global strategic issues is that it would be ideologically!-->!-->…

All is well with the world according to the latest version of Labors spinning machine We are committed to making New Zealand the best place in the world to be a child. The work we've done so far to increase!-->!-->…

A rose between two swarms Short answer - because of MMP, maybe? Long answer - I think ACT was unfairly stung by Luxon, he sucked up all Christian votes below 5%, and ACT earnings went down in math. If you look at!-->!-->…

On January 4, the British newspaper the Guardian published an insightful article from his Denis Campbell Health Policy Editor: . Campbell is an experienced journalist. He writes for the Guardian and his weekly!-->!-->…

Review 2021, 2022, ParliamentChris Trotter (Bowalley Road): Ride on the revolutionary tiger of 2022Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): TDB - Political Winners and Losers 2021Henry Cooke (Tips): How did our political forecast for 2021 go? We…

This morning, the Waitangi Tribunal released its report on the COVID-19 complaint filed by the New Zealand Māori Council (NZMC). The report confirms the NZMC's claim that the government's response to the COVID-19!-->!-->…

2021 in review, Parliament, partiesMatthew Hooton (Herald): My thoughts on 2021 - and why John Tamihere is my New Zealander of the Year (paying)Spin off: Politics in 2021: How to describe the year in one sentence?Paul McBeth…

When was the last time a journalist or commentator used the term working class in a report or opinion piece? A long time ago I guess. Not that the media have ever used the "working class" to report on class!-->!-->…

Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles knows a lot about viruses. She directs the laboratory of bioluminescent superbugs (production and emission of light by a living organism for us, mere mortals) at the University!-->!-->…

The liberal middle class spent two weeks attacking Chris Luxon like a terrible right winger and telling us how very scared we should be of a government led by Luxon. Oh good? The Liberals are rightly attacking his!-->!-->…

One of the problems with Woke's identity politics is that it manages to overshadow much bigger issues. We have seen it in poverty and police profiling and we see it every week in Stuff, RNZ, TVNZ and most of all in!-->!-->…

AT THIS TIME, last week, I had fun writing a parody of “Onward Christian Soldiers” for Christopher Luxon. My take on the refrain of the old hymn had “the soldiers of Luxon” marching towards “class war”. Some!-->!-->…

Reputable medical journals such as the British medical journal (BMJ) are invaluable not only to physicians, but also to those who observe health systems and policies, both of which are closely related to the!-->!-->…

"It has been a mission to get there, but as long as we focus on protecting our communities, we can't go too far wrong." “It was a boost to get the tautoko from the district health boards and all the Iwi in!-->!-->…

"We have a choice: a choice between our current path to mediocrity, or a path to a more confident, ambitious and prosperous future" - Christopher Luxon MP. Roads, trips and seeing things from another perspective!-->!-->…

November 2 Business office published my article on pandemic traffic light policy: At the time, I thought that the traffic light system had been initiated by the Ministry of Health (experts outside the ministry were!-->!-->…

THE FIRST QUESTION: “Is the 'upper room' a church? Strictly speaking, the answer is "No". It is certainly a place of evangelical Christian fellowship, but if by "church" you mean a dedicated place of worship,!-->!-->…

WHY do people fear a united world in which solidarity, rather than greed, is the driving force? In such a world, the Covid-19 pandemic would have been managed collectively, without regard to either the narrow!-->!-->…

That gagging that you hear is Jacinda reading Mfat's neoliberal wishlist she was forced to regurgitate after APEC ended. The last undisputed bastion of New Zealand neoliberalism is the zeal for free trade that!-->!-->…