The summer surge of politics continued this week with more big calls being made, especially by National, Labour and the Maori Party. But what do they mean? And where do they lead?
Read MoreHone Harawira
I am in blood stepp'd in so far ...
Let's assume the Maori Party really wants Hone Harawira gone. What then?
Read MoreRandom thoughts on a quiet friday ...
I should be working on a learned article that will set the world of legal academia aflame. But it's Friday.
Read MoreGoff’s green smalls, and the new old Alliance
Labour leader Phil Goff tossed off another election strip-tease item yesterday; underneath was something green
Read MoreHow do you solve a problem like Hone?
Hone Harawira thinks the Maori Party needs to dance to his tune. Are his colleagues going to pull the plug on his stereo?
Read More2010: Minor government parties pay the price
What was 2010 like for the smaller parties propping up this government? Not a lot of fun, really. Big holes were exposed in ACT, the Maori Party and United Future, which raise even bigger questions
Read MoreHone Harawira and the partnership pickle
Hone Harawira's view that he doesn't want his children going out with pakeha is already last week's water cooler debate. But his words will come to haunt both him and the Maori Party as they cut to the heart of Maori progress
Read MoreForeshore & seabed: foundering again on the rock of property rights and fair play
Whether like Labour you believe the foreshore is everybody's or like National you think it's nobody's, this impasse was always coming. We need to debate ownership of the coastline as a whole
Read MoreFlags, constitutions, Fleetwood Mac, zeitgeists...
If we're starting to talk about Waitangi Day, the end of the year has arrived. So what will John Key and Phil Goff be reflecting on as they tuck into their Christmas pudding?
Read MoreWhich Hone will return to parliament?
Hone Harawira has won himself a second chance. He won't get a third. So the question for him next year is whether he wants to be a leader or a rebel
Read MoreLabour's dangerous, dirty path
The Phil Goff Labour party has slowly been taking shape in recent weeks. Today it veers in an unwelcome new direction, playing the race card
Read MoreHide & Harawira: sorry should be the hardest word
Hide's apology is out of kilter with earlier statements and behaviour, while any apology from Harawira would deman both him and us. It's no wonder voters have a low opinion of these crisis-time converts
Read MoreHone Harawira, his wife and me.
HH, his wife and Me/ Fucked off to Paris to have a sight-see/ Too much beauty in one foul sweep/ And the brilliant sun made me blind on the beach/ So I made it back to confusion row/ Where encased in four walls my mind could cope/ We live in hope
Read MoreSuper-City needs super-glue
The rush to reshape