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COMMENT: An embarrassing moment yesterday afternoon. I was confronted by Pak'nSave store security, who asked me to open my enormous rucksack.

My hackster informant Lambshank has wetsuited up and plunged into the hard drives of the pretenders, thieving digital files containing draft speeches.

COMMENT: Key and Kitteridge owe us all, and NZ Muslim women especially, an apology.

Top of everyone's mind, needless to say, is the wish to pop something under the trees of New Zealand's public figures. But what?

TOBY MANHIRE: A quick glossary to decode the political verbiage that is soon to rain down upon us.

COMMENT: On the morning of Monday November 14, 2016, the best little city in the world got ripped apart.

COMMENT: National MPs are fair game for Peters, but targeting journalists is problematic.

COMMENT: The campaign that has plumbed some unimaginable depths could yet get altogether nastier.

With a slim majority, the new government can expect to face one hell of a opposition.

COMMENT: Toby Manhire reads them so you don't have to.