A resurgent Winston Peters is expected to launch a public attack on the Government today for reopening the contentious foreshore and seabed debate. It is being seen as his first step in a return to the national politics stage,...

The public loves headlines about MPs with their snouts in the trough. In Britain, members have dropped like flies following revelations of excessive allowance claims. Here the Green and Act parties sensed an opportunity and opened...

Sex is the greatest accelerant in political stories. Tossing bonking allegations into a story from Parliament is like throwing petrol on a fire: stand well clear because there is likely to be collateral damage. So it is with former...

In asking the Law Commission to investigate an overhaul of the way cases of sexual offending are tried, Justice Minister Simon Power paradoxically goes too far and not far enough. The minister wants the commission to consider the...

The decision of the Korean businesswoman who had laid a complaint against disgraced MP Richard Worth to withdraw her allegation must have caused some consternation to police working on the case. Thus deprived of their star witness...