Competition hinders knowledge-sharing: well-regarded schools have no incentive to share insights with struggling ones, who remain competitors.

It’s an exciting idea, but questions still abound.

In Parliament on Wednesday, National’s shadow treasurer, Andrew Bayly, was already looking tired when Grant Robertson decided to twist the knife.

Too many New Zealanders, Pākehā in particular, remain stuck in an extractive mindset that I suspect has been passed down from history.

Prioritising social insurance is a political choice. But it’s also, in itself, a good idea.

The reluctance to really crack down on wage subsidy fraud parallels the Government’s general timidity when it comes to the elites.

If you genuinely want a country with lower carbon emissions and fewer children in poverty, the best course of action is to find a cause you believe in and start chipping away.

Some British media have been mocking New Zealand for going into Covid lockdown over one case, but it’s hard to find downsides to the approach.

Even getting homeowners to accept a 3 per cent a year decline, adding up to a 40 per cent real-terms fall over two decades, could be extraordinarily difficult.

The calculations underlying today's Stuff column on housing affordability.