Rodney Hide: MMP's fatal flaw confirmed

OPINION: What's on special? The election is looking like an impulse buy.

COMMENT: Once again we are being asked to vote without knowing what we are voting for.

COMMENT: The true scandal is our welfare system shelling out money to fit and able.

COMMENT: What's Labour's tax policy? Don't know? Don't feel bad. Neither does Labour.

COMMENT: Hipkins proves a convenient scapegoat.

Farmers are right to be worried about Labour's plan to tax water

OPINION: Labour could still win government this election. Politics is a wonderful thing.

COMMENT: Salaries should be kept secret.

COMMENT: Time for Little to rise above the negativity.

COMMENT: State agents rummaging through your recycling bin? What next?

COMMENT: Memo to employers: watch out for a particular ex-employee from Southern Spars.

COMMENT: Today's "well prepared" is yesterday's "cheating".

COMMENT: It's not leadership to be blaming others for your folly.

OPINION: Army visits to schools is the right introduction for our children.

COMMENT: Dairy owners are left to fend for themselves without even the promise of help.

COMMENT: By quitting the race, Rohan Lord proved he is not right for politics.

COMMENT: Our global ranking on children's rights a wake-up call.

COMMENT: Council rules are a roadblock to Auckland's development.

COMMENT: Willie Jackson 'omnishambles' reflects poorly on the party's ability to govern.

COMMENT: Easter Egg hunts are for children, not Government office workers.

COMMENT: Education Minister Hekia Parata is patting her own back.

COMMENT: It's a great time to be alive, writes Rodney Hide.

Chief of Defence's response to Hager/Stephenson's book is professional, says Rodney Hide.

COMMENT: Rookie MP Todd Barclay is creating controversy in Clutha-Southland.

COMMENT: Red tape is costing us homes and opportunities and a cause worth campaigning on, says Rodney Hide.

COMMENT: Diversity has become the new thing among the Wellington and Auckland power elite, says Rodney Hide.

OPINION: The big mistake in politics is to underestimate opponents. Clearly, I underestimated Little and Ardern, writes Rodney Hide.

COMMENT: Just who are the "My People" Hone Harawira talks of?

COMMENT: I had my doubts about Bill English. It's not that I didn't think him capable. He's extremely so.

COMMENT: Jackson was standing for Labour. And yes, Little had lured him with the promise of a high place on Labour's list, writes Rodney Hide.

COMMENT: The choice of job opportunities is too narrow and compulsory te reo for 10 years would cost our children a lot but add not much.

Trump hysteria has become a parody in which the screamiest and stupidest attacks become headlines.

COMMENT: Former Clerk of the House David McGee is recommending that resigning list MPs not be replaced by the next willing candidate on their party list.

COMMENT: There many excellent reasons for the Prime Minister to stay away from Waitangi but being banned from speaking isn't one of them.

COMMENT: Your ride will arrive with a tap of your phone. It will whisk you to your destination and disappear to the next fare.

COMMENT: Trendsetter Winston Peters ended 2016 offering to be the first man to re-enter Pike River.

COMMENT: It's very exciting with Gareth already taking the trouble to explain what "talking politics in the TOP way" means.

COMMENT: The most common question in politics is, "Why not me?" That's the question National MPs have spent the week asking.

Parliament had a good week passing the Hurunui/Kaikoura Earthquakes Emergency Relief Act.

COMMENT: Earthquakes make New Zealand great. We would not have a country without them.

COMMENT: I am still revelling in Donald Trump's victory.

COMMENT: One of the great joys of politics is being accountable to, well, everyone.

COMMENT: We must fervently hope there are no more by-elections because the real expense is they make politicians dig deeper into our pockets.

The Honourable Minister's behaviour was less than honourable.

COMMENT: If Labour wins the the byelection no one will notice. There will not be a ripple. If they lose, there will be a political tsunami.

COMMENT: Phil Goff has the potential to be an excellent mayor. He is capable and personable. I don't know anyone who doesn't like him.

COMMENT: Paul Thomas is from a remarkable family of eight boys and three girls. All eight boys served in the New Zealand army. Five saw active duty.

COMMENT: Making unlawful detention subsequently lawful only deepens the outrage.

COMMENT: Labour is the narrow party that has shut itself off from the great bulk of New Zealanders.

COMMENT: Unions used to bring the country to its knees, now it can't manage to organise a boycott of a meal delivery company.

COMMENT: If politics was the Olympics, Winston Peters would be three-times triple-gold. No one comes close.

COMMENT: People's Party was announced with a narrower focus than its name suggests. Its target is Asian and ethnic voters and its issue is fighting crime.

COMMENT: I suggest teenagers are doing their sexual exploration online by sending each other naughty pictures and watching porn.

COMMENT: Immigration NZ announced a trial in Queenstown to make it less likely that that they will lock up au pairs travelling with their families.

COMMENT: Dame Lowell Goddard has badly let the team down. Her failure has been splashed through the British papers. It's not a good look.