Referenda are a much more transparent way of government by numbers than the poll-driven roll-out and roll-back of initiatives we have become used to. [...]
To land a top job, having a stand-out CV helps. But that does not justify hallucinating your life’s achievements. Especially not if the media are doing their job. [...]
The worst of Muldoonism is back in New Zealand politics. It is a morass of ad hoc interventions and spiralling public debt. We know how that ended last time. [...]