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The PREFU itself concedes (page 7) that there could be somewhere between a one in five and a one in ten chance that the errors in the PREFU calculations will be the same size as the OBEGALx surplus ...

We keep on being told by political partisans like Winston Peters (and in the past, by Michael Cullen) that Parliament must remain paramount, and that this is a virtue of our form of social democracy.

The National Party’s decision to highlight “No new taxes” as a signature slogan for its campaign is an interesting choice. Since the cupboard is allegedly bare, it means National is promising that our ...

“I can take care of my enemies, but God protect me from friends”- Salvatore Giuliano When it comes to running a market economy, Labour and […] ...

True, it may seem weird to try and warn teenagers about the horrors of war by writing them a story about teenagers who kill each other in a TV reality show. Nine times out of ten, you’d end up with ...

He’s on the blue team. He’s always making mistakes for which he needs to apologise, to the eye rolling exasperation of his colleagues. I’m talking of course, about Clumsy Smurf. In the real world, PM ...

The Werewolf series of essays on classic children’s books continues this week with this story by Avi of murder, mutiny and teenage rebellion on the high seas All children have the same needs for ...

If politics in a social democracy is to be a genuine contest of ideas, those ideas have to be contested transparently, between parties with similar access to resources. One way or another, all of ...

The Auditor General’s damning report on the school lunch programme– and the litany of callous bungles it has uncovered – should require associate education minister David Seymour to be offering his ...

About 15 years ago on Werewolf, I started writing a series of articles about classic children’s books. Over the next few months, these articles will be re-published here, every Friday. The series ...