New Zealand’s slide down the global corruption rankings has become so predictable it barely causes a stir.

Politicians are under fire overseas.

Many expected fireworks at Waitangi this year.

At the height of summer, during the Waitangi Day long weekend, approximately 70 million litres of raw untreated sewage have been pouring into the sea off Wellington’s south coast every day.

Super profits are being made in New Zealand by insurance corporations.

New Zealanders are badly ripped off by profit-gouging companies in some of the country’s most important sectors.

Where have the Greens gone?

The bodies are being recovered.

When Prime Minister Christopher Luxon announced today that Judith Collins would become the next President of the Law Commission, he reached for familiar talking points about her “astute legal knowledg...

The picture is firming up, and it’s devastating.

This week Chris Hipkins gave us the clearest picture yet of how Labour plans to fight the 2026 election.

The starting gun has been fired on the 2026 general election.

Associate Justice Minister Nicole McKee’s tenure as the government’s firearms regulator is fast becoming a textbook case of regulatory capture.

Christopher Luxon is back from holiday.

The Green Party should be flying high right now.

After six columns dissecting the MisManageMyHealth debacle, the diagnosis is clear.

Fifteen years of warnings from three Privacy Commissioners.

Why don’t we have a single, secure, government-run system for health records?

Vino Ramayah, the CEO of Manage My Health, couldn’t have summed up the contradiction at the heart of this mess any better.

Vino Ramayah, the CEO of Manage My Health, couldn’t have summed up the contradiction at the heart of this mess any better.

In June 2025, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner received an anonymous tip.

In my previous column, I argued that the Manage My Health breach revealed a hollowed-out state.

When hackers stole 430,000 medical documents from Manage My Health on December 30, the initial response followed a familiar script.

When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, New Zealand responded with unusual speed.

How much taxpayer funding will politicians spend this year on election advertising?

Can the wealthy donate money to politicians to get a knighthood in New Zealand?

Veteran political journalist Richard Harman summed up 2025 in one bleak line: “This has been the year of our discontent.

At the end of the year, commentators across the spectrum have crowned Chris Bishop as 2025’s “Politician of the Year”.

Fifteen years.

We’ve been sold a fantasy about integrity in New Zealand public life. The McSkimming case is the crack in the façade. My latest article argues why:

Yesterday’s victory of “democratic socialist” Zohran Mamdani in the race for the New York mayoralty is fuelling debate amongst progressives around the world about the way forward.

New Zealand is in the throes of a trust crisis.