Politics

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 business of legislation is murky. As the saying goes, “Laws are like sausages: Better not to see them being made”.

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.

Mastering ‘Democracy’ was easier than I had thought. I just had to leave all my principles and beliefs behind.

After many attempts at ‘Democracy’, I am happy to cut our political leaders some slack. I would never want their job.

This new Cold War could be decided not by Beijing’s victory but by the West’s suicide.

Let us celebrate the relative civility of our domestic politics and defend robust and constructive debates.