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 ...

"In just seven years' time, they'll have enough money to buy every share in every public company in New Zealand. Soon, they could buy all the farms. Indeed, one day the government could wind up owning ...

It's nice to see Bill Ralston back in the workforce, although I wonder when his respective editors at The Listener and the Herald on Sunday realised he'd be starting new columns for each of them on ...

All right, this is getting ridiculous. It's been a beautiful day in Auckland. I rode from the Chev to La Cigale in Parnell, then back via Quay Street, and out along Queen's Wharf, to inspect the damn ...

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John Key’s strategic supremo is Lynton Crosby, from the Australian firm Crosby/Textor. Crosby has a trick in his bag called the “dead cat strategy.” Here’s Boris Johnson, one of Crosby’s British ...

If production of the Hobbit does indeed go to Ireland, there will be an extraordinary irony: the industrial relations environment around the film will be benign because Irish Equity did what New ...

It's a measure of the New Zealand Herald's petty and spiteful state that it relegates the appointment of Don McKinnon to the place in the Order of New Zealand made vacant by the passing of the Maori ...

Christchurch mayor Garry Moore said "this is a society not braying for blood" and Norm Hewitt said it was "about caring now", and advised parents to go home and give their children a hug. Nelson mayor ...

Public Address won the NetGuide People's Choice Award for Best Blog last night; which as I pointed out when I went up to accept it, was all the more remarkable for the fact that I forgot to suggest ...

When friends of mine were first messing around with bulletin boards back in the early nineties, they used to say that when commenting dropped off, all you needed to do was Drop the A-bomb. Mention ...

So John Banks, helicoptered in to the Act Party, seems set to administer the electoral death blow to that party by virtue of apparent actions committed while he was still a member of the National ...