Germans will head to the polls on Sunday to choose their next chancellor. The man favored to clinch the election is Friedrich Merz of the Christian Democrats. He has been considered a potentially ...

Over fifty years ago, the satirical television show Monty Python’s Flying Circus attacked the then emerging lowest-common-denominator approach to resolving complex issues in a skit where the existence ...

Can we get Parliament back to work.   At a time when the Prime Minister is urging us to work work work for growth growth ...

Immediately after the war, the Allies – led by the U.S., France and Britain – stayed together to craft the peace agreements, feed the war-ravaged parts of Europe and intervene in Russia after the ...

By issuing an executive order that introduces reciprocal tariffs over the next six months, the US president is tearing down ...

New Zealand wants to renegotiate its free association agreements with Cook Islands to secure increased transparency in its ...

The transfer of Britain’s “last African colony” to Mauritius has sparked deep opposition, mistrust, and disappointment from ...

If the Government had any gumption – they would take the pulse of the people; if this Bills dies in the water, like two of ...

As Donald Trump embraces a multipolar world where raw power dominates, New Zealand will find itself in a global minority of ...

Ever since Winston Churchill coined the phrase, politicians have extolled the “special relationship” between the United ...

At the Langkawi Retreat in January 2025, for instance, the tradition was not to immediately lock into a list of talking points and formal notes that must be discussed in unadulterated form by the ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. New Zealand on Thursday marked the anniversary of its founding document, the Treaty of Waitangi. The day ...