A former Education Ministry employee says development of the new school curriculum was heavily politicised, causing extensive rewrites and sidelining subject experts. Claire Coleman made the ...

Labour keep claiming that the Government gave the tobacco industry a $300 million tax cut. This was based on reducing the excise on heated tobacco by 50% to see if the price difference would move ...

The Sensible Sentencing Trust has launched a campaign to make the new proposed coward punch law effective. Without minimum sentences, NZ judges will continue to give incredibly light sentences for ...

Like many NZers I first heard of Sam Ruthe last year when he started to break NZ age records for the mile and other middle distances. In March he became the first 15 year old to do a sub 4 minute mile ...

This column by Andrea Vance was actually last March but I only just discovered it, and it is so good it needs repeating. She writes: In the Chlöe Swarbrick era, the Greens have been reduced to a ...

Students returning to school this week will benefit from a significant change designed to give parents clearer, more consistent information about how their children are progressing at school. 2026 ...

This is Eva Vlaardingerbroek, a 29 year old Dutch activist. The UK Government banned her from visa-free travel on the basis ...

Eligible students can now apply for funds to help with the cost of their final year of study. But one economist is asking whether it's the best use of the money. People who are studying for the first ...

Canadian PM Mark Carney got a lot of attention for his speech at Davos where he bluntly said the liberal rules based order we have had for decades is dead, and we need to realise it. His full speech ...

In NZ you can marry your cousins, as you can in the UK. The Marriage Act 1955 prohibits you marrying your: parent (doh!) or grandparent, child or grandchild sibling parent's sibling (aunt, uncle) or ...

I first wrote a doom–laden article for the Economist about carbon dioxide emissions trapping heat in the air in 1987, nearly 40 years ago. I soon realised the effect was real but the alarm was ...