Juha Saarinen's pointing to an old Australian censor's compilation of naughty words reminded me to check up on whether New Zealand...

Norm Gemmell  takes my piece over at the Spinoff on the Tax Working Group's recommendations  as foil in his Public Finance Chair update...

The UK Parliament seems a mad place. I used to teach micro theory - or at least when Seamus was on sabbatical. He understood the math bett...

It looks like Statistics NZ no longer produces the median hourly wage figure I used to use to run comparisons between median wages and the m...

Since the Friday attacks: We've had armed police on the streets . They say it won't be forever. But they've made no case for ...

My column in this week's Insights newsletter - now a bit dated. The newsletter comes out at noon; our national moment of silence was an ...

In yesterday's Herald, on the relative merits of punching Nazis: I keep coming back to one tweet. Amid a steady stream of rage driven ...