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Odd outbursts in huge week of change

COMMENT: The departure of John Key and rise of Bill English as Prime Minister prompted some unexpected reactions.

Nats rump revels in glorious anarchy

COMMENT: Alas, poor John, an ominous rumbling noise started in the bowels of the party's massive backbench rump. It could not be ignored.

Plethora of options for new top team

COMMENT: The contest to become Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister is starting to look like an elaborate wiring diagram.

Time of schemes and deals and election dreams

It's less than a year until the next election and judging from all the talk there are set to be more deals on the table than at a Trump casino.

Garrison Keillor: Done. Over. He's here. Goodbye.

COMMENT: Raw ego and proud illiteracy have won out and a severely learning-disabled man with a real character problem will be president.

Election break-down: How the US voted

Donald Trump is the president-elect of the United States of America, and he did it by completely blowing up the electoral map.

Braunias: Trump, a thrilling, scary mask

COMMENT: He was the slime that oiled the old, deserted machinery of American politics, and got it running.

Lesson: It pays to check the numbers

COMMENT: The theme of the Labour Party conference last weekend was "Backing the Kiwi Dream", writes Claire Trevett.

Two months to get a grip on Trump

Perhaps the best feature of the American electoral system is that it gives us two and a half months to recover our composure before the new president takes office.

Miles-Mojab: Talk can end terror

COMMENT: There is no doubt that Isis is barbaric, but so are the military responses of the West that contributed to its creation in the first place.

Trump's major moment to persuade

COMMENT: Donald Trump has left himself with a mighty challenge for the final day of the Republican National Convention.

Trump undercuts key Nato commitments

Trump has called into question whether, as president, he would give Nato the assurance that the full force of the US military has their back.

Claire Trevett: Housing crusade fits well with Labour's history

Today is Labour's centenary, which the party intends to celebrate by releasing its 2016 housing manifesto.

Claire Trevett: House antics rather like trial over Queen's tarts

The Shewan report should have been a major victory for Labour.

Trevett: Key u-turns to get Crusher on his case

Prime Minister John Key has done so many u-turns this week he is in danger of coming to the attention of his boyracer-car-crushing minister Judith Collins.