Former cyclone Lusi wasn't the only wild, hot air over the weekend. That deafening sucking sound you heard was elements of the political right having a massive tantrum because the Judith Collins story ...

When John Key sneered yesterday that the Labour leadership contest would be "three weeks of reality TV" and "Political Idol, or whatever you want to call it," he clearly meant that in a bad way. The ...

Firstly: Kim Dotcom did not "admit to hacking" at the Internet-Mana campaign launch today, as both network news shows claimed this evening. His "teenage hacker made good" story is Dotcom Bio 101. It's ...

Earlier this week, Act Party leader Jamie Whyte notified the world that he had delivered a speech entitled Race has no place in the law and, it seemed, sat back in anticipation of plaudits for his ...

If you need a metaphor for Auckland in 2014, try this. So many people clamoured this morning to search for their new property valuations that they brought down the entire Auckland Council website. We ...

The Dominion Post reports today that the state agencies that spent $1.5 million on psychometric testing last year may have been on shaky legal ground. It might also have added that they're basically ...

In 2006, I was lucky enough to get in on an analyst briefing at IBM's Alamaden Research Centre, near San Jose.It was a memorable day. The place itself -- a monumental California modernist building on ...

It's almost exactly three months since the New Zealand Herald's 'Diary' columnist Rachel Glucina announced in a tweet that she had been "headhunted" by Mediaworks "for a joint venture partnership to ...

I understand why London Mayor Boris Johnson pitched his city's near-billion-pound plan for cycle infrastructure as a bid to "de-Lycrafy cycling". The idea that cycling takes special clothing isn't ...

John Key's announcement yesterday of his possible election alliances looks relatively conventional in comparison to last week's election-year kick-off, but it certainly still has its amusing elements.

Over the past couple of weeks, the Herald's new data blog has been looking at population change data revealed by the 2013 Census. It's been a nice, open process culminating the Wellington firm Dumpark ...

Public Address regulars Sofie and Jackie love dogs. If this has not been made abundantly clear to you yet, then this will remove any residual doubt. Having broken the Internet with our inaugural Cat ...