Video: John Key State of the Nation speech

There are likely to be slim pickings for Opposition parties over most of the next three months for reasons that have little to do with politics. And there may not be all that much they can do about it because the reasons are beyond their control.

On Emmanuel Macron’s risky, rope-a-dope plan B strategy of deliberately opening a corridor to power for the far right, in the belief it will blunt Le Pen's appeal by the next presidential election in 2027. On Trump's new immunity from prosecution ...

Finally, Julian Assange is free after 12 years of confinement. Yet ultimately, his freedom was conditional on a plea bargain charade whereby he admitted to a charge under the US Espionage Act that he had unlawfully solicited, obtained and distributed ...

Listen to what the leaders in the West are saying. The time to stop the madness is now, not once the elites drive us into the abyss and civilians are stripped of all rights to oppose.

While Donald Trump was always going to relish the chance to be not only economical with the truth but simply inventive about it, Joe Biden seemed a vanishing shadow, longing for soft slippers and the fireplace with cocoa, a case of comfort rather ...

The City of Chicago has inadvertently granted the Poor People’s Army a permit to march to the steps of the United Center during the Democratic National Convention.