As we all know, the UK Supreme Court ruled that it was unlawful for the British prime minister to ask the Queen to prorogue Parliament. The immediate outcome of this was that Parliament resumed sitting. …

I’ve quit Twitter about three times now, for varying lengths of time. Contrary to what some not very nice people said, it’s not because I was hypocritically snow-flaking out – noting that this is actually the first time I have ever referred to the snowflake concept in writing, I think…

Why shouldn’t backbench MPs show a bit of independence?

The new Green MP has been getting a bit of stick for this photo. Generally, the criticism is that she is protesting surveillance being undertaken by a government she supports. …

Barry Soper writes in The Herald:

“The Peters party’s support has halved coming in at under four percent, not enough to get it into Parliament. …

So the Green Party is willing to sell out its principled objection to the party hopping law to salve Winston Peters’ insecurity about his ability to control his caucus. They will make this betrayal, not in exchange for any meaningful policy gains, but solely in consideration of some meaningless “safeguards” in the law. And they will subvert Parliamentary government and incur the withering criticism of former Green MPs despite the fact that nothing in their confidence and supply agreement requires them to do so.

So how does New Zealand First return the favour? Well, despite the fact that they would probably suffer very little backlash for supporting it, all nine New Zealand First MPs voted against Chloe Swarbrick’s medical marijuana bill.

I think one party to this relationship may be more into it than the other.

When the news broke about the prime minister’s pregnancy, Internet people asked me if I was upset about it. Why would I be upset?

Is it because, as a Christian, I should be angry that the prime minister conceived a baby out of wedlock? …

Here’s what I wrote just after Jacinda Ardern became leader:

“New Age spirituality articulates the idea that certain elevated beings walk among us. These people — sometimes called “light workers” — have a special ability to heal the world with their radiance. They elevate discourse beyond the vain and petty…

In his farewell speech, the former leader of the United Future party has issued what I expect was intended to be a rousing call to arms for the cause of the New Zealand Republic. …