What are the words that captured the year in a few syllables and defined 2014? Read on...
Read MoreKim Dotcom
John Banks isn't (yet) innocent
Or, rather, he hasn't (yet) been found not-guilty of filing a false election return. That probably will happen later.
Read MoreThe Key to a 4th term
An emphatic win for National raises a whole series of questions, especially for a left-wing struggling to understand middle New Zealand... and then there's Dotcom
Read MoreThink of these things: whence you came; where you are going; and to whom you must account
Was The Moment of Truth an election advertisement?
Read MoreThe trouble with Kelvin Davis
Reports of Labour's Kelvin Davis 'going rogue' have been exaggerated
Read MoreIgnorantia juris excusat
Did you know that if you don't know you are breaking a law, this means that you're allowed to break it without criminal consequences following? At least, you can if you're a New Zealand spy agency.
Read MoreHow Internet Mana could help National reach 50%
Internet Mana gives National a cast of villians to parade before voters
Read MoreThat's the price I pay for hating Key the way that I do
If you'll excuse the paraphrasing of Billy Bragg, it seems appropriate as the left leave the moral high ground for a bit of electoral mud-wrestling and coat-tailing. But at what cost?
Read MoreWhy Laila? The maths makes sense, but what's in it for her?
So Laila Harre is back in politics via the most unlikely of vehicles -- the Internet Party. The question is why, why, why has she done it
Read MoreHarre will lead the Internet Party, because the Twitter tells me so
If Laila Harre is going to lead the Internet Party, what does that mean? Good? Bad? Happy? Sad?
Read MorePower acquaints a man with strange bedfellows
The MANA Movement and the Internet Party have discovered they both have a lot in common. Each very much wants to get as many of its MPs into Parliament as it can.
Read MoreNothing except a battle lost can be half as melancholy as a battle won
John Banks will have a full trial on the charge that he knowingly filed a false donation declaration after his 2010 Auckland mayoral election defeat. That's not that surprising.
Read MoreClickbait: Do the Internet Party's rules breach the Electoral Act?
The Internet Party's candidate selection rules very well might breach the Electoral Act. This probably doesn't matter.
Read MoreWhat exactly has Russel Norman done wrong?
There's been a lot of nonsense around Russel Norman the past 24 hours, but one very serious question remains. And if the Prime Minister has reason to believe what he suggested, he should put up or shut up
Read MoreWill no one rid me of this turbulent German?
The final say on whether Kim Dotcom will stand trial in the US may lie with a politician. Which is just the way the law says it should be.
Read MoreDotcom hasn’t been extradited because it’s not clear he broke the law
If the FBI’s case against Kim Dotcom is so strong, then why hasn’t he been extradited yet? Larry Williams and Cam Slater disagreed with me on Newstalk ZB tonight when I said he had to be accused of a crime that is also a crime (carrying a similar sanction) in New Zealand.
Read MoreThe death of an EDM dancer, well it happens a lot around here
Would Dotcom's "Party Party" have breached electoral law? Maybe yes, maybe no ... which is (for me) a shame.
Read MoreJohn Banks and the lumpy mattress of deceit
Who knows whether John Banks will be found guilty next year, only the courts can decide. But in the court of public opinion, a trial is as bad as a conviction
Read MoreFrom the ridiculous to the disgraceful
No, this isn't a post on Labour's leadership election (zing!) But it is about elections - more specifically, who can't take part in them.
Read MoreLaws, like the spider's web, catch the fly and let the hawk go free
The way the police have approached the GCSB's covert recording of Kim Dotcom is markedly different to how they approached Bradley Ambrose's recording of John Key. Why is that?
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