Nikki Kaye
National MPs meet tonight having to make some quick decisions with profound implications. One MP stands out as ready and road-tested, but would National act in haste only to repent at leisure?
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Todd Muller’s first week as National’s leader made you want to look away in discomfort and raised the question whether National is entering the Shearer/Cunliffe phase of Opposition.
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Simon Bridges was never likely to be National’s next Prime Minister, but he had scrapped his way to within inches of a campaign. Then came a plague and he hadn’t built any political immunity
Read MoreOne new seat added in Auckland. But that single proposed seat has ramifications that will ripple across the city with some surprising winners and losers
Read MoreParliament is supposed to be just that, the House of Representatives, its members a proxy for each and every one of us, warts and all. So sometimes we have to tolerate debates about subjects we might think are frivolous
Read MoreI don't know if the New Zealand Herald editor exercises any oversight over the columns his "opinionators" send to him each week. But I thought I'd do an after-the-fact job on John Roughan's effort on gay adoption that appeared in last Saturday's paper.
Read MoreIn preference to weeping, I try to count conservation blessings, and plan my new career as a lobbyist
Read MoreHow Gerry Brownlee's mining blunder has put Nikki Kaye on the endangered species list and blown a hole in National's blue-green image; and notes from the year's best A-list party
Read MoreLabour's candidate selection for the Auckland electorates seemed odd, but National's willingess to risk the city for a bit o' gold and silver in the Coromandel is one hell of a punt
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