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Labour figured out that it doesn’t want New Zealand to join Pillar 2 of an AUKUS pact after all
Now is the time for the Prime Minister to set out a clear sense of direction for voters feeling uncertain about their futures. As 2025 unfolds, it will be important to keep doubting New Zealanders onside. That will be a critical test for Luxon's still developing – but quickly improving – political communication skills.
A new bloody phase has opened up in Syria, as if it was ever possible to contemplate another one in that tormented land. Were the Assad regime, bloodthirsty as it is, to collapse, yet another cataclysmic tide of holy book vengeance is bound to ripple through the region.
Bidenomics was functionally the same as 'hitlernomics'. In the meantime, Luxonomics is paralysing Aotearoa New Zealand.
Let's hope politicians of all stripes can agree to limit their urge to politicise the Royal Commission of Inquiry findings about the Covid response.
It would not be an exaggeration to claim that the ICC’s indictment of Netanyahu, as a representative of the political establishment in Israel, and Gallant, as the leader of the military class, is also an indictment of the United States.