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Andrew Anthony: Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s arrest is the latest in a roll-call of dubious royal dealings

Longstanding royal practices are under pressure, including the King's own behaviour.

Duncan Garner: This weekend could be the most significant of Christopher Luxon’s political career

Who allowed PM to take a word salad to a press conference & will he finally read the room?

Leah McFall: The one item that proves beyond doubt you’ve become middle-class

Own this one thing and you have become a card-carrying member of the Comfortable Middle.

Law by language? David Harvey on courts, the vocabulary of advocacy and policy creep

Courts wield soft power through concepts they validate, so words must be chosen with care.

Russell Brown: Infrastructure Commission report reveals the folly of some government pet projects

The government is struggling to distinguish 'needs' from 'wants'.

Pauline Hanson’s One Nation rides high once more buoyed by a wave of anti-immigration sentiment

The mid-December massacre at Bondi has fuelled the newly febrile debate around migration.

Solar power is the world’s cheapest source of energy, so why aren’t we using it?

The government lacks policy for climate action that could lower the cost of living.

Duncan Garner: Record electricity prices and profits should remind MPs people have the power

When essential services produce windfall profits in a downturn, something feels wrong.

Health NZ’s annual report is not a story of a system on the mend; it’s a real-time demonstration of managed decline

Despite cost-cutting, Health New Zealand’s financial state is far from fighting fit.

Russell Brown: In the UK, the Epstein Files cause a parliamentary crisis. In the US, they barely raise eyebrows

Deputy US attorney-general Todd Blanche tells journalists any Epstein investigation's over

Duncan Garner: Forget the cost of living and power prices. The Greens want whales to be become human

The Green Party calls this progressive; I call it reckless.

In our efforts to turn back the clock, something vital can be lost: the beauty of ageing

The fixation of retaining youth by any means has warped the definition of normal.

End of times? The way psychologists understand conflict may have reached its limits

It feels like there's a lot of change going on, but is it change or chaos?

Aaron Smale: The major issue politicians will avoid in election year

It's one of the biggest economic and social issues facing NZ, but no one talks about it.

Charlotte Grimshaw: In a precarious world, there are a few old men with too much power

Those with power over others are more likely to believe themselves above the law.

Steve Braunias: To kill a pigeon

In the Battle of the Birds, it’s pigeons 1: Braunias 0.