This weekend on The Nation...

Patrick Gower sits down with the Health Minister Jonathan Coleman to talk about whether his new obesity plan is ambitious enough, what’s happening to tens of thousands of patients who aren’t getting to see specialists, and whether National is really spending more money on health.

Then multi-award winning Sunday Times journalist Christina Lamb talks to Lisa Owen about her new book Farewell Kabul. Has the maxim ‘Never Invade Afghanistan’ been proved correct 14 years after the US began the longest war in its history? Are the Taliban on the rise again after they retook a major city just last month? And what’s happened in neighbouring Pakistan where billions of dollars have been spent trying to defeat terrorism?

Labour leader Andrew Little joins us from Beijing after his meeting with China’s Vice President Li Yuanchao and Torben Akel has an exclusive update on who’s suing who in and around the Conservative Party.

We’ll discuss all this and more with our panel: Morgan Foundation economist Geoff Simmons, Sunday Star-Times editor Jonathan Milne, and former ACT leader Jamie Whyte.

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