Editorial

Word that the United States and Iran may have engaged in some form of discussion, albeit maybe not real negotiations, to end the war seems at first glance encouraging.

There has been little fanfare about New Zealand’s decision to formally reject amendments to international health regulations (IHR) drawn up after the Covid-19 pandemic.

One of the oldest truisms about politics is that no matter how hard things might become for those who have been elected to office, it is much, much harder for their families.

As autumn creeps in, the shadows lengthen and the morning dew settles more heavily, Southland’s harvest is in full swing.

If the government wants the public to see restoration of flexible disability support funding as a triumph, it must assume everyone is disabled by amnesia.

Business and sentiment seldom mix, hence the hard-headed — and arguably hard-hearted — decision by Heinz Wattie’s Ltd to propose closing the Forth St Gregg’s factory.

If Prime Minister Christopher Luxon is indeed a dead man walking — as many pundits and prognosticators have been claiming since late last week — he was striding out with quite a spring in his step...

There is no nice way of putting it — New Zealand has always been a convenient dumping ground for old cars and their puffs of blue smoke from across the world.