It's weird that NATO and others benchmark defence adequacy by spending as a fraction of GDP. Surely treating inputs as targets rather th...

RNZ reports: An RNZ investigation into the tobacco blackmarket found packs of cigarettes and loose tobacco being sold brazenly over the cou...

Excellent news out of the UK. Abrysvo, a vaccine for RSV administered to pregnant women, reduces infant hospitalisation by 80%.  From the BB...

Andy Macdonald over at BusinessDesk asked me for comment on the ongoing RBNZ cash-access saga . A snippet: The New Zealand Initiative’s (NZI...

Combine a points-based migration system that welcomes higher-earning younger people with progressive tax systems and you get a result like t...

Problem definition matters in policy. I worry some people in Auckland are experiencing poor parking management by Auckland Council as being ...

Last week over in Newsroom, I laid out the case against subsidising fuel use during a supply shortage .  That case is sufficiently obvious t...