Karl du Fresne

The least surprising news of the day is that Andrew Little has confirmed he will run for the Wellington mayoralty. I imagine the announcemen...

David Seymour’s announcement that ACT may stand candidates in council elections triggered a discussion on Nick Mills’ talkback show on Newst...

I spent a couple of hours wandering the streets of downtown Wellington this week. What a dismal experience. Actually, it was worse than di...

Word reaches me that the mischievous, publicly funded three-day wananga (forum) entitled Imagining Decolonisation , which was to have starte...

  Some of New Zealand’s most divisive mischief-makers are embedded in local government, where they appear free to pursue their ideological a...

Democracy took centuries to build, but it’s being dismantled with frightening speed. The latest step in the demolition job was Wellington ...

■ It was drearily predictable that young, female commentators online and in print would unquestioningly accept Meghan Markle’s account of th...

■ Susie Ferguson is a disgrace. Interviewing Hone Harawira   on Morning Report this morning about the police decision to shut down iwi chec...

(A slightly shorter version of this column was first published in The Dominion Post , December 1.) A pervasive culture of entitlement a...

(First published in The Dominion Post , April 19.) WELLINGTON could save itself a truckload of money by getting rid of its mayor and ...

(First published in The Dominion Post , December 28.) TWO RECENT events – education secretary Lesley Longstone’s abrupt departure and t...