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I like to watch TV dramas, but every so often I need to remind myself of the political attitudes I'm absorbing with the pleasure of immersion in a fictional story. I need to do this for all my favourite TV shows over the last year; ones…
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Most of the years in review I've seen in the couple of weeks have concentrated on gossip and rating individual MPs. Most of what matters not a jot outside the beltway. What matters is how the parties are doing in terms of progressing or thwarting…
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The New Year Honours have been announced. (Sir) Bob Harvey has his faults, but he was the best option, and so I voted for him as mayor of Waitakere. I look back on those days, of a democratic and community minded city council as the…
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