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Call To Action – A New Book March 22, 2015
Myths, Politicians and Money October 8, 2013
Rescuing the New Zealand Economy September 12, 2008
The Democracy Sham October 12, 2006

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British Politics

Parliament’s Failure September 27, 2019
Parliament and the Executive September 13, 2019
Corbyn and Brexit September 9, 2019
Democracy – I Don’t Think So September 4, 2019
A Post-Brexit Europe August 12, 2019
A No-Deal Brexit August 9, 2019
The British Trump – I Don’t Think So July 30, 2019
Off The Fence – In The Right Direction July 4, 2019
Europe – Left and Right June 4, 2019
The Outcome The EU Least Wants May 26, 2019
Forty Years Since the Advent of Thatcherism April 28, 2019
The Need for “Fair Governance”. April 4, 2019
My European Journey April 2, 2019
The EU, State Aids and a Labour Government March 31, 2019
Brexit Explained January 15, 2019
Who Caused the Problems in the First Place? November 30, 2018
What Brexit Is Really About July 10, 2018
Why Does the Left So Often Disappoint? October 24, 2017
The Truth about Brexit, As seen from New Zealand April 18, 2017
Religious Fervour Can Be A Bad Guide February 20, 2017
Who’s for Paella? February 7, 2017
Trump and Brexit Are Quite Different Phenomena February 2, 2017
Who’s to Blame? January 6, 2017
Can We Be Pro-Brexit and Progressive? January 2, 2017
Democracy is the Missing Element December 21, 2016
What Lies Behind the Brexit Vote? December 18, 2016
We Failed the Brexit Test September 13, 2016
Putting Labour Together Again July 30, 2016
How Did It Come to This? July 16, 2016
Immeasurably Better? July 14, 2016
A Frenzy of Foot-stamping Fantasy July 6, 2016
Why Has The Guardian Been So Ruthlessly and Recklessly Partisan? June 28, 2016
Their Hysterical Reaction Tells Us Why The Remainers Lost June 26, 2016
A New Start for Britain and for Europe June 24, 2016
What Will Happen After Brexit? June 8, 2016
The Left Case for Brexit April 25, 2016
The Pillars of a New Economy April 4, 2016
Productive Purpose April 4, 2016
When Will We Learn? April 3, 2016
The Left Case for Brexit March 17, 2016
A Distorted Trade Pattern Isn’t An Advantage February 26, 2016
Which Immigrants to Get Tough On? February 16, 2016
Proud to be a Socialist? February 3, 2016
Is Labour A Campaigning Party? January 26, 2016
Is Roy Greenslade’s Despair Justified? December 8, 2015
What Really Matters December 2, 2015
Playing the Tories’ Game October 12, 2015
The Way Forward for Labour September 25, 2015
The New Mainstream September 16, 2015
What Labour Can Learn from the Corbyn Leadership Campaign September 6, 2015
Who Is Jeremy Corbyn? August 22, 2015
How Left-wing Is Jeremy Corbyn? August 13, 2015
Who Are the Ideologues Now? (UK) August 3, 2015
Are “Realistic” Labour Leaders Best Placed to Win An Election? July 28, 2015
Labour’s Failure July 21, 2015
Old-Time Religion June 26, 2015
Why Are Labour’s Would-be Leaders So Right-wing? June 19, 2015
Labour’s Intellectual Straitjacket June 11, 2015
Nothing to Lose But Our Fears May 24, 2015
Teaching the Facts May 14, 2015
How the Election Was Won May 11, 2015
It’s The Economy, Stupid May 4, 2015
Call To Action – A New Book March 22, 2015
Economic Policies for an Incoming Labour Government – Part 9 March 11, 2015
Economic Policies for an Incoming Labour Government – Part 8 March 10, 2015
Economic Policies for an Incoming Labour Government – Part 7 March 9, 2015
Economic Policies for an Incoming Labour Government – Part 6 March 8, 2015
Economic Policies for an Incoming Labour Government – Part 5 March 7, 2015
Economic Policies for an Incoming Labour Government – Part 4 March 6, 2015
Economic Policies for an Incoming Labour Government – Part 3 March 5, 2015
Economic Policies for an Incoming Labour Government – Part 2 March 3, 2015
Economic Policies for an Incoming Labour Government – Part 1 March 1, 2015
The Light Dawns January 16, 2015
Breaking the Shackles of Neo-Liberal Orthodoxy September 25, 2014
A New Version of Exclusivity and Self-Interest September 11, 2014
Another 1945? July 28, 2014
Growing Inequality Can Be Seen As Clever Politics July 20, 2014
An Impartial Press? June 25, 2014
Is Democracy Too Left-Wing? June 10, 2014
Who Owns the Future? April 11, 2014
Playing the Neo-Liberals’ Game April 1, 2014
The Bank of England Owns Up At Last March 23, 2014
The Voters’ Anger December 29, 2013
Aiming at the Wrong Target October 14, 2013
The Socialist Way – A Review August 28, 2013
Privatised Water Blues August 1, 2013
Miliband’s Dilemma July 1, 2013
What Happened to the Money? June 4, 2013
The Tories Don’t Know Best May 29, 2013
An Economic Policy for a Post-Neo-Liberal World May 4, 2013
Our Politicians Are Not Up To It April 24, 2013
An Economic Policy for Labour April 15, 2013
Tony Blair Gives the Game Away April 12, 2013
Thatcher Followed Rather Than Led April 11, 2013
George Osborne’s Non-Event March 31, 2013
George Osborne’s Deep Hole March 17, 2013
A Litany of Errors March 10, 2013
Eastleigh Leaves Labour with Lessons to Learn March 2, 2013
I Told You So June 1, 2012
Labour Should Challenge Macro-economic Policy January 10, 2012
After Forty Years, Why Not Debate Europe? October 27, 2011
Rupert and the Rioters August 18, 2011
The Murdoch Monster July 16, 2011
The Centre Ground – Disappearing Stage Right June 9, 2011
Do You Want The Good News Or The Bad News? May 8, 2011
Labour Bounces Back January 22, 2011
A Shadow of a Shadow Chancellor October 9, 2010
Seeking The Middle Ground September 26, 2010
The Labour Leadership September 12, 2010
Have Faith in Our Rival Narrative September 9, 2010
Labour-Saving Devices September 7, 2010
Good Government Matters August 22, 2010
One Gaffe After Another August 6, 2010
What Is The Point of a Coalition If Only One Voice Is Heard? July 5, 2010
Leaning Against the Market June 16, 2010
A New Labour Leadership May 21, 2010
The Election the Parties Lost But the Country Won May 15, 2010
The Real Story of the 2010 Election May 4, 2010
Don’t Be Frightened of a Hung Parliament April 18, 2010
Joy In Heaven – A Sinner Repents February 25, 2010
A False Dichotomy January 19, 2010
Tony Blair’s War January 7, 2010
Labour’s Coup January 7, 2010
What’s Left for Labour? September 27, 2009
Who Controls The Banks? August 10, 2009
Gordon Is Right This Time July 27, 2009
A Tale of Two Decades July 9, 2009
Sin and the City July 6, 2009
Tragedy June 15, 2009
It Has Come To This June 9, 2009
New Labour Betrays Its Supporters June 2, 2009
The Expense of New Labour May 12, 2009
Obama’s Health Care Bill and the British General Election March 22, 2009
Filthy Rich March 14, 2009
Not In My Name February 20, 2009
Saving Labour January 18, 2009
Putrefaction August 1, 2008
Was Gordon Brown’s Reputation Justified? July 28, 2008
New Labour – Not Labour June 1, 2008
The End of New Labour? May 12, 2008
What Should Gordon Brown Do Now? April 18, 2008
A Brown Study October 15, 2007
Bryan Gould on Gordon Brown June 29, 2007
British Labour in 2007 December 19, 2006
Tony Blair’s Easy Options September 5, 2006
How Has Labour Done? September 1, 2006

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Miscellany

Cards Ruining the Game October 7, 2019
What the All Blacks Mean to Us September 17, 2019
Sharing our Lives With Brodie August 24, 2019
The Importance of Kindness August 20, 2019
Belle and the Community July 15, 2019
Where Did That Rule Come From? July 15, 2019
Fast Food for the Fans? May 25, 2019
Sharing With Our Feathered Friends May 12, 2019
Folau’s Folly April 16, 2019
What Role Should Celebrities Play in Our Lives? February 19, 2019
Intimations of Mortality February 11, 2019
The Meaning of Inequality January 15, 2019
Lachie January 4, 2019
Making Charitable Gifts and Paying Taxes December 4, 2018
What is the Point of Education? November 21, 2018
What Makes the All Blacks So Good? November 14, 2018
The All Blacks Aren’t Done Yet October 10, 2018
Life Jackets Are Needed September 16, 2018
A Good Man September 4, 2018
Noise Pollutes July 12, 2018
Hit Him in the Slats Bob March 25, 2018
What Has Happened to Australian Sport? March 6, 2018
Where TECT Money Does the Most Good January 29, 2018
Abuse Can Happen Close to Home January 21, 2018
Mind Your Language January 5, 2018
Emergency Services and The Storm January 4, 2018
The Season of Goodwill December 24, 2017
A Merry Pohutukawa Christmas December 16, 2017
Learning About Work November 18, 2017
Is It All Michael Cheika’s Fault? August 27, 2017
What Happened to That Penalty? July 9, 2017
Who or What Is “Ridiculous?” July 3, 2017
TV Commercials – How Bad Are They? June 25, 2017
A Naughty Boy May 29, 2017
A Trump Dictatorship May 10, 2017
I Love Dogs February 27, 2017
Trying to Cut the All Blacks Down to Size December 1, 2016
Don’t Saddle the All Blacks with the Burden of Invincibility November 6, 2016
Kindness and Helen Kelly October 17, 2016
Are the All Blacks Special? September 5, 2016
Not So Much Fun Now August 9, 2016
Why The Despair? October 4, 2015
Coercive Control January 16, 2014
The Iron Lady April 17, 2013
Political Ambition Knows No Bounds January 25, 2013
Drama at the South Pole January 19, 2013
The Walls of Jericho December 3, 2012
Portuguese Deaths December 2, 2012
More Than “A Decade of Dominance” October 29, 2012
The Human Wrecking Ball September 30, 2011
England’s HaKa – the HoKey-CoKey August 16, 2011
John Key is Missing May 6, 2011
Made in Dagenham January 30, 2011
Hambledon January 26, 2011
Bridging the Teaching Divide November 4, 2010
Arise, Sir Robbie August 9, 2010
The World’s Best July 19, 2010
Remembering The Holocaust January 23, 2010
The All Blacks – Just Another Team? November 18, 2009
Bryan Gould Speaks to UNESCO November 1, 2009
Bonuses – for Good or Ill? August 30, 2009
Step Forward Unesco April 26, 2009
Wanted – Directors Who Think February 16, 2009
Universities “More Than Just Agents of Economic Development” May 31, 2008
A Fibre Optic Network – Twenty Years Earlier May 9, 2008
Beaches – for Cars or People? January 9, 2008
My Vision for New Zealand January 9, 2007
Rates Reform August 26, 2006

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New Zealand Politics

Voting in Local Elections October 1, 2019
The Value of Balance in News Treatment by Our Media September 23, 2019
The Politics of Opposition September 8, 2019
Where Money Comes From September 3, 2019
More Courage Needed August 13, 2019
What’s the Point of a Climate Change Emergency Declaration? August 6, 2019
Democracy and Self-respect July 23, 2019
How Much Foreign Control Is Acceptable? June 29, 2019
Luxon’s Hubris June 25, 2019
Luxon’s Hubris June 24, 2019
The Public Sector Pay Puzzle June 10, 2019
Defending Privilege June 4, 2019
The Parting of the Ways May 20, 2019
Defending Privilege May 14, 2019
New Zealand’s World Leader April 2, 2019
What Does It Mean to Be A New Zealander? March 19, 2019
What Do We Do About Hate Speech? March 19, 2019
he Christchurch Slaughter March 16, 2019
Trade Should Be Between Equals March 12, 2019
The Health of the Public Debate March 12, 2019
What Price Warm and Dry Homes? February 26, 2019
The Chinese “Message”. February 16, 2019
Inequality Means Less Freedom February 5, 2019
New Zealand and Davos January 30, 2019
A Blue-green Party is a Nonsense January 27, 2019
No More One-Man Bands December 30, 2018
A Well-being Budget December 30, 2018
Public Television December 10, 2018
Fads and Fashions in Economic Polcy November 27, 2018
Picking Up the Pieces November 21, 2018
Good – But Could Be Better November 7, 2018
More Punch – and Judy Too? October 29, 2018
The Story That Keeps On Giving October 20, 2018
Dumping Simon Bridges May Be Just the Easy Option October 10, 2018
A New Monetary Policy Needed September 19, 2018
Coalition Government Working As It Should September 12, 2018
Primary Health Care for All September 5, 2018
Teachers’ Strike August 16, 2018
Taking Up The Reins Again August 2, 2018
Finding the Money July 4, 2018
Business Confidence – Or Confidence Trick? June 28, 2018
Welcome, Little Neve Te Aroha! June 23, 2018
The Living Wage June 23, 2018
Slash June 14, 2018
Let’s Have A Fairer Wage Bargain June 7, 2018
What Was He Doing? May 9, 2018
Dirty Politics? Yes! May 3, 2018
Another Commonwealth Gold Medal May 1, 2018
Life in Opposition Is Not So Easy April 14, 2018
Mr Micawber ifs Not A Good Guide When It Comes to Public Finances April 3, 2018
What Matters to our “National” Airline – Profits or Customers? March 19, 2018
New Zealand Must Grow Up In Trade Matters March 4, 2018
The Candidates’ Dilemma February 17, 2018
Why Do We Allow Banks to Make Huge Profits and Decide Economic Policy As well? February 17, 2018
Get Over It, National February 7, 2018
The National Party Succession February 4, 2018
The Battle for National’s leadership January 31, 2018
We Didn’t Do Badly in 2017 December 31, 2017
Mike Hosking’s Special Pleading December 14, 2017
Fairy Stories Are Not the True Explanation December 5, 2017
Dealing with Housing Demand and Bank Lending November 30, 2017
Is the TPPA Now Fit for Purpose? November 12, 2017
The TPPA – Not Just A Free Trade Deal November 5, 2017
Remember Who Voted You In October 29, 2017
Why Does the Left So Often Disappoint? October 24, 2017
Our Democratic Process Worked October 19, 2017
How MMP Is Meant to Work October 8, 2017
Are We As Brave As Labour in the 1930s? October 4, 2017
Time for Progress on Gender Equality October 1, 2017
Not Just a Numbers Game September 26, 2017
The Incoming Tide September 23, 2017
Will We Go Forward with the Clocks? September 17, 2017
How to Make Up Your Mind September 10, 2017
The Achilles Heel on the Economy September 2, 2017
Impartiality Has to Be Seen to Be Delivered August 28, 2017
Politics, As Well As Personality August 20, 2017
The Real Reason for Housing Unaffordability August 15, 2017
The Real Reason for Housing Unaffordability August 15, 2017
A Tale of Two Citizens August 10, 2017
What Stops Us from Housing the Homeless? July 16, 2017
Who Is Responsible for Housing Affordability? July 5, 2017
The Price We Pay for Tax Cuts June 29, 2017
Do We Have to Put Up with Mike Hosking? June 25, 2017
The End of a Promising Career June 23, 2017
What Does Inequality Look Like? June 16, 2017
Is There Any Limit to Australia’s Anti-Kiwi Hostility May 28, 2017
Will the Voters Think? May 28, 2017
Putting a Proper Value on Work May 1, 2017
It’s Not Just the Rivers April 29, 2017
The Fallout from Brash’s Downfall April 29, 2017
A Surprise from Jim Bolger April 23, 2017
When the Chief Banker Gets it Wrong April 19, 2017
Did SBW Get It Right? April 11, 2017
Public Spending Cuts Hurt April 4, 2017
Public Services Matter April 3, 2017
The Lessons of Kaikohe March 23, 2017
We Need to Shift the Focus of Health Care March 12, 2017
Convenient Fairy Stories March 4, 2017
What Price Public Service Broadcasting? January 21, 2017
No Excuse for Offensive Behaviour January 15, 2017
Universities Are More Than Instruments of Government Policy January 10, 2017
Standing Up for Ourselves January 10, 2017
January 9, 2017
Good Start – More Needed December 30, 2016
Closing the Gap at Christmas December 18, 2016
Can Bill English Manage the Transition? December 10, 2016
John Key, the Ideologue December 10, 2016
John Key Has Gone – Why? December 5, 2016
How Was the Fortune Made? September 12, 2016
Profits, Dividends or Customers? August 28, 2016
What Happened in the End? August 15, 2016
Whose Interests Count? August 2, 2016
Getting Ahead of the Game July 22, 2016
Well Done – More Needed July 11, 2016
The Penny Is Beginning to Drop July 5, 2016
Who’s In Charge? June 12, 2016
The New Consensus Misses the Target May 20, 2016
“Middle ” New Zealand? May 16, 2016
The Buck Stops Anywhere But Here May 4, 2016
Nibbling at the Edges April 26, 2016
The Bad News Keeps Coming April 18, 2016
The Price of Democracy April 10, 2016
Is This What We Want To Be? April 5, 2016
I Have Become Patron of Positive Money, New Zealand – Here’s Why March 28, 2016
What Went Wrong? March 17, 2016
Jumping the Gun – and the Flag March 9, 2016
Equal Pay for Work of Equal Value February 17, 2016
Proud to be a Socialist? February 3, 2016
Investing in Our Future February 1, 2016
A Second Bite at the Cherry January 31, 2016
Eating the Seed Corn January 23, 2016
Covering All Bases January 12, 2016
Is All Fair in Love and War – and Politics? December 10, 2015
Where’s the Christmas Spirit? November 11, 2015
Whose Interests Are Served by Unemployment? November 4, 2015
Does the Government Represent Us? October 20, 2015
Is A Budget Surplus A Sensible Target? October 15, 2015
Tough Negotiation? I Don’t Think So October 6, 2015
The Meaning of Leadership September 4, 2015
Who Is Jeremy Corbyn? August 22, 2015
Are We Willing to Pay any Price? August 11, 2015
Who Are the Ideologues Now? July 26, 2015
Chinese Buyers? No, Australian Banks July 16, 2015
Chickens Coming Home to Roost June 12, 2015
How Did We Come to This? June 2, 2015
Nothing to Lose But Our Fears May 24, 2015
Budget Blues May 22, 2015
Teaching the Facts May 14, 2015
How the Election Was Won May 11, 2015
Bank Profits and House Prices May 7, 2015
Obstacles to Trade May 2, 2015
Which Deficit? April 12, 2015
A Fool’s Paradise? March 20, 2015
A Fair Deal for Christchurch March 1, 2015
Solving the Housing Crisis – Facts or Ideology? January 25, 2015
The Light Dawns January 16, 2015
A Government in Waiting? December 10, 2014
Supping with the Devil November 30, 2014
Kim Jong Key Is Missing October 15, 2014
The Election That Left One Third of Us Behind September 23, 2014
Looking Ahead September 21, 2014
A Matter of Simple Logic September 16, 2014
John Key On Trial September 15, 2014
No One’s Fault But Ours September 9, 2014
Why Is John Key Not Compelled to Give Evidence Under Oath? September 1, 2014
Whose Resignation? August 30, 2014
We Are Asking the Wrong Question August 23, 2014
John Key – The End Game August 21, 2014
The Political Significance of the F-Word August 19, 2014
New Zealand’s Nixon August 17, 2014
“Disaster Capitalism” Is Alive and Well August 3, 2014
Closed Processes Don’t Make For Open Government July 31, 2014
Using Ministerial Inquiries to Close Down Debate July 23, 2014
Growing Inequality Can Be Seen As Clever Politics July 20, 2014
Blame the Officials July 3, 2014
An Impartial Press? June 25, 2014
Is Democracy Too Left-Wing? June 10, 2014
The House Price Spiral May 18, 2014
Ministers Should Not Lie May 6, 2014
Yes, There Is An Alternative April 30, 2014
There Is A World Beyond Politics April 22, 2014
If the Poor Are Worse Off, We’re All Worse Off April 4, 2014
Bankers Know Little and Care Less March 31, 2014
Why Austerity Doesn’t Work March 21, 2014
Why the Poor Can’t Put Food on the Table March 21, 2014
The Thin End of the Corruption Wedge March 16, 2014
Housing Bubble? Blame the Banks March 9, 2014
The Risk of Denying the Values We Seek to Protect February 11, 2014
Don’t Throw Your Hats In The Air Just Yet. February 2, 2014
The Voters Deserve Honesty January 26, 2014
Light Cast on the Future January 14, 2014
A Dose of Reality December 17, 2013
“Free Trade” for Big Corporations, Not For Us November 14, 2013
Private Greed, Public Meanness November 1, 2013
The Public/Private Partnership Illusion October 27, 2013
In Our Democracy, It’s Dollars Not Votes That Count October 19, 2013
Public Spending Matters October 17, 2013
Game On October 6, 2013
Consulting the People September 4, 2013
The Labour Leadership August 23, 2013
John Key and the Law August 21, 2013
Making Sense of the News August 11, 2013
Air New Zealand Shows the Way August 3, 2013
Tipping the Balance July 26, 2013
A Sea-change in Economic Policy June 18, 2013
Are Civil Servants Disposable? June 13, 2013
Who’s Extreme? June 1, 2013
New Zealand’s Elective Dictatorship May 26, 2013
The Wrong Target May 18, 2013
Clicking Fingers May 14, 2013
Tilting On Its Axis May 6, 2013
History’s Judgment April 17, 2013
Doing What The Big Boys Tell Us April 7, 2013
The New Muldoon April 4, 2013
A Kiwi Haircut? March 18, 2013
The Deal-maker March 8, 2013
Why Ignoring the Exchange Rate Widens Inequality March 1, 2013
Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics February 10, 2013
Getting the Dollar Down February 2, 2013
Why Are Houses So Expensive? January 29, 2013
Manufacturing Matters January 21, 2013
The Government’s Economic Report Card December 29, 2012
When A Minister’s Luck Runs Out December 23, 2012
Do What’s Right December 14, 2012
Can We Trust John Key to Fight Our Corner? December 9, 2012
Maori Politics Are Not A No-Go Area December 1, 2012
Submission to the Parliamentary Inquiry into Manufacturing November 30, 2012
A Win for Labour and Democracy November 21, 2012
Unemployment Makes Us All Poor November 12, 2012
Batshit? November 6, 2012
Why Housing Isn’t Affordable October 29, 2012
Crisis? What Crisis? October 9, 2012
What the Hekia Doing? October 2, 2012
John Banks – Guilty Twice Over September 20, 2012
The Same Tired Old Excuses September 12, 2012
Let Children Pay the Price? August 29, 2012
Unemployment? It’s The Fault Of The Jobless Themselves August 13, 2012
Cheap Imports Cost Jobs August 2, 2012
Animal Farm July 2, 2012
Was It All A Mistake? June 24, 2012
Why Have Maori Leaders Got It Right? June 17, 2012
Zero Budget, Zero Ambition May 19, 2012
Who Will Own The Dairy Industry? May 16, 2012
Self Government Anyone? May 7, 2012
Access to the Law Under Threat April 28, 2012
Standing Up for Ourselves April 23, 2012
Market Solutions Are Best April 12, 2012
Ministerial Irresponsibility March 30, 2012
Second and Final Term? March 19, 2012
Learning the Lessons March 8, 2012

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The Global Economy

The Trump-Kim Bromance July 9, 2019
Is Donald Trump Really A Deal-Maker? May 14, 2019
A New Crime of Ecocide May 9, 2019
Can Joe Biden Pull It Off? April 28, 2019
Combatting Global Warming March 6, 2019
Trump, Kim and Hanoi February 28, 2019
The Armistice Centenary November 14, 2018
They Do Things Differently There October 7, 2018
#Me Too Must Become We Too October 1, 2018
“Putting America First” Will Not “Make America Great Again”. September 26, 2018
Making America Great Again? September 24, 2018
Who Do You Trust on Climate Change? September 7, 2018
Helsinki Debacle Claims Its Victims July 20, 2018
The Demise of the West July 2, 2018
At Last – A Republican Who Tells It Like It Is May 24, 2018
Big Rocket Man? May 14, 2018
Another Commonwealth Gold Medal May 1, 2018
The Dogs of War April 22, 2018
The President As Hero March 8, 2018
New Zealand Must Grow Up In Trade Matters March 4, 2018
Is the TPPA Now Fit for Purpose? November 12, 2017
The TPPA – Not Just A Free Trade Deal November 5, 2017
Trump Versus the Establishment? Not Quite November 1, 2017
Why Does the Left So Often Disappoint? October 24, 2017
Time to Use the Remedy Provided by the Constitution? October 13, 2017
What Do the Chinese Pay For? September 21, 2017
The Disintegration of Donald Trump August 25, 2017
In the Name of God, Go! August 17, 2017
In the Name of God, Go! August 17, 2017
A Weak Man Trying to Look Strong August 13, 2017
Trump the Democratic Leader? July 26, 2017
What’s In It for Putin? July 23, 2017
Is Donald Trump Real? July 9, 2017
Abdicating Responsibility June 5, 2017
What I would Have Said in the Herald May 8, 2017
The Fallout from Brash’s Downfall April 29, 2017
What Lies Behind the Missile Attack in Syria? April 10, 2017
Did Trump Really Want to Be President? March 18, 2017
A Revival of Fascism? March 1, 2017
Why Not Try “Bubble Up”? February 12, 2017
The World Needs Reassurance February 1, 2017
Who’s to Blame? January 6, 2017
What the World Can Expect from President Trump December 1, 2016
What Happened in the End? August 15, 2016
A Frenzy of Foot-stamping Fantasy July 6, 2016
A New Start for Britain and for Europe June 24, 2016
Is This What We Want To Be? April 5, 2016
Productive Purpose April 4, 2016
I Have Become Patron of Positive Money, New Zealand – Here’s Why March 28, 2016
Trumpery Is the Last Thing We Need March 6, 2016
A Distorted Trade Pattern Isn’t An Advantage February 26, 2016
Proud to be a Socialist? February 3, 2016
A Second Bite at the Cherry January 31, 2016
Covering All Bases January 12, 2016
Is All Fair in Love and War – and Politics? December 10, 2015
What Really Matters December 2, 2015
Tough Negotiation? I Don’t Think So October 6, 2015
What Labour Can Learn from the Corbyn Leadership Campaign September 6, 2015
Are We Willing to Pay any Price? August 11, 2015
Who Are the Ideologues Now? (UK) August 3, 2015
Who Are the Ideologues Now? July 26, 2015
Do the Germans Realise the Damage They Have Done to Themselves and Europe? July 17, 2015
Reforms? I Don’t Think So. July 13, 2015
It’s Up to Europe’s Leaders Now July 6, 2015
The Real Greek Crisis July 1, 2015
Labour’s Intellectual Straitjacket June 11, 2015
Nothing to Lose But Our Fears May 24, 2015
Teaching the Facts May 14, 2015
How the Election Was Won May 11, 2015
Economic Policies for an Incoming Labour Government – Part 9 March 11, 2015
Economic Policies for an Incoming Labour Government – Part 8 March 10, 2015
Economic Policies for an Incoming Labour Government – Part 7 March 9, 2015
Economic Policies for an Incoming Labour Government – Part 6 March 8, 2015
Economic Policies for an Incoming Labour Government – Part 5 March 7, 2015
Economic Policies for an Incoming Labour Government – Part 4 March 6, 2015
Economic Policies for an Incoming Labour Government – Part 3 March 5, 2015
Economic Policies for an Incoming Labour Government – Part 2 March 3, 2015
Economic Policies for an Incoming Labour Government – Part 1 March 1, 2015
A Fair Deal for Christchurch March 1, 2015
A Slow-Burning Revolution February 22, 2015
The Light Dawns January 16, 2015
“Disaster Capitalism” Is Alive and Well August 3, 2014
Economics Students Demand Better May 14, 2014
The Bank of England Owns Up At Last March 23, 2014
Live Mandela’s Principles In Our Own Society Today December 10, 2013
Take Courage – Remember the MAI? November 29, 2013
Myths, Politicians and Money October 8, 2013
Myths, Politicians and Money September 19, 2013
The Inequality Machine March 28, 2013
Ending The Euro Crisis June 14, 2012
Europe’s Disaster December 11, 2011
Orthodoxy – Or Leadership? October 26, 2011
The Wilful Obstinacy of Europe’s Leaders September 23, 2011
No Gifts for the Greeks June 21, 2011
The Chinese Challenge April 13, 2011
Holding Banks to Account July 8, 2010
Will We Ever Learn? July 2, 2010
Learning the Lessons September 26, 2009
What the Meltdown Tells Us About Markets August 28, 2009
Governments and Markets April 17, 2009
Governments As Banks March 30, 2009
Constructing A Left Politics March 15, 2009
Who Is To Blame? March 13, 2009
Lessons from the Crisis January 18, 2009
Politics Not Economics November 24, 2008
Shifting Foundations November 5, 2008
Yes, There Is An Alternative October 14, 2008
Meltdown September 17, 2008
Don’t Leave It To The Bankers September 4, 2008
Another Alternative December 9, 2006
The Globalisation Bell Tolls for us All November 7, 2006
Global Warming and Market Failure November 2, 2006
The Democracy Sham October 12, 2006
Implications of the Euro September 12, 2006

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Uncategorized

Fast Track Stupidity October 18, 2024
An Ailing Health Service October 6, 2024
Learning from our Past August 27, 2024
The Global Economy July 28, 2024
The Left’s Timidity February 17, 2024
Black Friday November 28, 2023
Instability Built In November 21, 2023
Prog-Gress? November 18, 2023
The Rugby World Cup Question October 31, 2023
A New New Zealand October 23, 2023
The Social Dimension October 8, 2023
How Does Democracy Work? October 4, 2023
Who Cares About Facts and Figures? September 12, 2023
Aimless Kicking September 10, 2023
Be On Your Guard August 31, 2023
Stuck On A Hook August 10, 2023
Which Europe? July 17, 2023
“The Boss” Complex June 28, 2023
What It Means To be A Kiwi June 24, 2023
A Propaganda Sheet June 21, 2023
The Dog-Whistle June 9, 2023
The “Anti-Woke” Herald June 8, 2023
Ridiculous Mike May 5, 2023
Matthew Hooton April 21, 2023
A Royal Correspondent? April 4, 2023
Poor Old Mike Hosking March 30, 2023
National’s Problem March 10, 2023
Dreaming February 28, 2023
Tried and True February 17, 2023
Misleading Headlines February 5, 2023
Mike’s Cracked Record February 2, 2023
Jacinda January 19, 2023
Prince Harry’s Problem January 10, 2023
TheHerald – A Joke December 24, 2022
“Pipsqueak” or “Prick”? December 16, 2022
Hamilton West December 12, 2022
Check It Out December 8, 2022
The True Cost November 23, 2022
The Political Minefield November 18, 2022
New Book November 14, 2022
Three Little Words! November 14, 2022
Luxon and Willis November 8, 2022
Kick? No, Run and Pass October 30, 2022
Truss and Luxon October 16, 2022
No Comment? October 15, 2022
A Guide to the General Election? October 11, 2022
Disarmament or MAD? October 8, 2022
An American Colony? September 23, 2022
Don’t Let the Herald take You In September 13, 2022
King Charles September 11, 2022
The Queen September 10, 2022
Waking Up to Reality August 28, 2022
The Sharma Saga August 21, 2022
National’s Bad News August 11, 2022
Luxon’s Undoing July 28, 2022
The Choice July 24, 2022
Enough Is Enough July 17, 2022
NZ Rugby’s Problem July 13, 2022
All Black Debacle July 10, 2022
The Boris Strategy July 9, 2022
Ideology and Foreign Investment June 23, 2022
NZME and Trump June 11, 2022
Hosking and Brash June 2, 2022
Hold On to the Ball! May 31, 2022
Media v. Government? May 20, 2022
Where’s the Self-Respect? May 16, 2022
Hosking v. Ardern May 5, 2022
How to Lose May 2, 2022
Hosking v. the Prime Minister April 21, 2022
Doing Not Saying April 20, 2022
Headaches April 14, 2022
Mystery Solved! April 13, 2022
He Picked Up the Ball and Ran April 9, 2022
Have They No Shame? April 4, 2022
Masculinity March 13, 2022
The Rich List March 13, 2022
Judging Putin March 12, 2022
The State of the Nation? March 7, 2022
Who Were the Protesters? March 3, 2022
World-Wide Fascism February 24, 2022
“A Bob Each Way” Luxon February 22, 2022
The Political Fallout from the Crisis February 21, 2022
Political Bias Takes Many Forms February 21, 2022
Democracy Under Threat February 20, 2022
What (A) To Do? February 14, 2022
Congratulations All Round February 9, 2022
Thinking Straight February 3, 2022
British Tories and New Zealand January 31, 2022
A Game of Teams January 30, 2022
The Herald’s Principles January 28, 2022
Where Did the Far-Right Come from? January 25, 2022
Move Over Christopher? January 25, 2022
An Easy Gig January 23, 2022
Unbiased Reporting? January 22, 2022
Put Another Record On January 9, 2022
Unattractive Alternatives December 22, 2021
A Familiar Diatribe December 16, 2021
Give Us A Break! December 15, 2021
What The Poll Shows December 14, 2021
The Threat to Democracy December 12, 2021
A Luxon Fluff December 8, 2021
When Christopher Became “Chris”. December 3, 2021
What Else Do We Know About Luxon? December 1, 2021
Businessman – and Political Novice November 28, 2021
Political Harakiri November 25, 2021
Important People November 23, 2021
The Scourge of the Aimless Kick November 21, 2021
The Good Ship Jacinda Ardern November 18, 2021
My Rights and Freedoms November 17, 2021
Coming Out of the Woodwork November 14, 2021
Exhausted? November 14, 2021
Who Would Have Thought? November 11, 2021
How To Create Criminals November 10, 2021
How Did We Come To This? November 8, 2021
Opposition For Its Own Sake November 1, 2021
Dame Cath Tizard November 1, 2021
The 1953 Welsh Victory October 29, 2021
We Have Failed the Government October 27, 2021
Wishful Thinkng October 21, 2021
Weddings and Leopards October 17, 2021
What Happened to the Team? October 15, 2021
The “Pulpit of Strewth” October 14, 2021
“Angry Blowhards” October 12, 2021
World-leading? October 9, 2021
The Virus, Not The Government October 8, 2021
TheHerald’s Dilemma October 3, 2021
The Gadfly September 28, 2021
Seymour and Collins September 17, 2021
Talking Up David Seymour September 14, 2021
Bile and Hostility September 11, 2021
A Grim Future for National September 4, 2021
Prime Ministerial? September 2, 2021
Herald Readers’ Comments August 31, 2021
Missing In Action August 24, 2021
Any Stick Will Do August 21, 2021
Media Responsibility August 17, 2021
Blaming the Government August 17, 2021
The Herald’s Uncertain Reporting August 12, 2021
The Herald’s Bias August 5, 2021
The Danger from the Extreme Right July 28, 2021
Courageous Politicians July 5, 2021
Fall Guys May 27, 2021
Central Bank Independence? May 2, 2021
Health Reforms Long Overdue April 22, 2021
The Government v. the People? April 16, 2021
Minimum Wage? Property Investors? Don’t Touch Our Profits April 3, 2021
The Concentration of Media Ownership March 25, 2021
Jacinda For A British Readership March 25, 2021
Jacinda’s Decision March 9, 2021
Party Games February 21, 2021
The EU Was Always Anti-British February 3, 2021
Biden’s Choice January 22, 2021
To Impeach Or Not? January 9, 2021
Telling It Like It Is January 7, 2021
How Did We Get to Here? December 18, 2020
We Trusted Each Other December 13, 2020
Why Not A National Investment Bank? December 6, 2020
Sport Must Be the Winner November 29, 2020
Hitler’s Playbook November 21, 2020
A School in Good Heart November 15, 2020
A Slow-Motion Coup November 12, 2020
A Future President November 9, 2020
He’s Gone November 8, 2020
What Price Democracy? November 1, 2020
Getting Our Priorities Right October 25, 2020
Lessons from the Election October 17, 2020
A Tale of Two Elections October 11, 2020
Managing the Economy October 4, 2020
An Apology, Not A Complaint, Is Now Needed September 29, 2020
Democracy Under Threat September 27, 2020
Anyone for Collins? September 20, 2020
Why Pay Taxes? September 13, 2020
Community Values September 8, 2020
Toughness When We Need It August 30, 2020
Our New Outbreak August 22, 2020
The Rule of Law August 16, 2020
A Shonky Poll August 10, 2020
Gearing Up for the Election August 9, 2020
Does Trump Want to Win? August 2, 2020
The Change in the Political Debate July 26, 2020
Game On July 19, 2020
The Risks of Collins As Leader July 15, 2020
Muller and the “Leak”. July 10, 2020
The Dirty Leak July 7, 2020
The Political Roller-coaster in Full Swing July 7, 2020
Credit Where It’s Due June 27, 2020
Blue Birds June 20, 2020
Is National’s Leadership Up for Grabs? June 13, 2020
Stick to Our Guns June 7, 2020
What Happened to America? May 31, 2020
NZIGA May 27, 2020
The Virus and The Election May 19, 2020
The National Consensus May 11, 2020
Simon Bridges’ Bad Luck May 4, 2020
Pity the Poor Americans April 28, 2020
Looking Over Your Shoulder April 21, 2020
The Announcement April 20, 2020
Kia Kaha April 18, 2020
Democracy At Work April 14, 2020
The Role of Government April 7, 2020
A Government System That Works March 31, 2020
What the Crisis Can teach Us March 21, 2020
For America Only March 15, 2020
Surviving the Crisis March 10, 2020
A Case of Attempted Extortion March 3, 2020
A Trump Dictatorship February 25, 2020
Natural Disasters February 18, 2020
We Can Learn From Our Pets February 11, 2020
Where Did the Billions Come From? February 4, 2020
The Dogs of War February 4, 2020
Brexit Day February 1, 2020
Television Turn-Offs January 28, 2020
Holding Their Noses January 21, 2020
The Road Toll January 14, 2020
A Reckless Decision January 8, 2020
What Caused the Bushfires January 8, 2020
20/20 Vision December 31, 2019
An Australian Christmas December 23, 2019
Keep Faith with the Voters December 17, 2019
Liking People Matters December 10, 2019
Must Do Better December 3, 2019
The American Influence November 26, 2019
What Does the Haka Mean? November 21, 2019
Australia Is Burning Up November 12, 2019
A New Zealand Voice in International Affairs November 5, 2019
The Origins of An Icon October 29, 2019
Democracy At Work – Or At Risk October 22, 2019
The Luck of the Draw October 15, 2019
Intimations of Mortality February 11, 2019
What Brexit Is Really About July 10, 2018
Skilled Diplomacy is the Answer March 18, 2018
A Period of Silence Would Now Be Welcome February 28, 2018
How to Make the Regional Development Fund An Even Better Idea February 25, 2018
Welcome Back Super Rugby February 24, 2018
Abuse Can Happen Close to Home January 21, 2018
Is There No Limit to Trump’s Awfulness? January 13, 2018
Recession? Surely Not! November 22, 2017
Why Is Mike Hosking So Hard to Watch? November 21, 2017
The Choice Before Us September 6, 2017
Lies and Lies and Lies July 17, 2017
The Many, Not The Few June 9, 2017
International Women’s Day March 12, 2017
Does the Rule of Law Matter? February 13, 2017
Presidential L-Plates January 13, 2017
Brexiteers Should Be Treated with Respect December 1, 2016
The Implications of Trump November 9, 2016
An Open Letter November 2, 2016
“Real” Men October 28, 2016
Should we Worry About the Trump Phenomenon? October 5, 2016
What More Can Labour Do? September 18, 2016

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