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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.

“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 […] ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This week’s essay in the series about classic children’s books features P.D. Eastman’s hymn to perpetual motion… Once read, this book is never forgotten. Like a catchy Top 40 tune, the ceaseless ...

The Werewolf essays on classic children’s books focusses this week on the much admired, widely mourned creator of Frog and Toad, Owl at Home and Grasshopper on the Road. The tone of Arnold Lobel’s ...

Faith-based voting is the norm, in that we tend to select the election messages that best fit with our deeply held beliefs. Routinely, faith trumps the evidence. There is, for instance, a doctrine ...

Labour’s pursuit of a ‘National-lite’ approach to tax and fiscal policy continues. Its painfully slow release of policy has finally revealed that alongside its anaemic capital gains tax (to be enacted ...

This week, the Werewolf series of essays on classic children’s books features Susan Cooper’s 1973 novel The Dark Is Rising. The antlered horseman on the cover of The Dark is Rising is a depiction of ...