Latest from Toby Manhire

Manhire: 11 insights from Winston's inbox
Comment: Demon hacktivist lays bare the secrets of the kingmaker's inbox.

Will Winston reel in blue cod or a red snapper?
How long to go? You may as well ask how long is a NZ First fishing line.

Critical moments: How small parties made big mistakes
Smaller parties squeezed out, but they did produce their own dramas.

Toby Manhire: What the parties are really saying
Toby Manhire presents a summary of the parties last, desperate election messages.

Toby Manhire: Who wants to buy a hole?
Steven Joyce can see a giant hole in Labour's sums - but no one else can.

Toby Manhire: Arden up! Strategies for Jacinda effect
COMMENT: Parties reach for their panic buttons as the election campaign bursts into life.

Toby Manhire: Our child abuse shame
It's well past time for the Government to investigate historic child abuse in state care.

Toby Manhire: Party ads: No danger of going viral
Risk-averse efforts online are early guide to the messages we'll get leading to election

Toby Manhire: time for Greens to get a bit crazy
It is altogether less easy, however, being Green. They need to get a bit crazy.

Manhire: Lessons from UK election for our politicians
Labour leader Corbyn's dramatic rise thanks to simple message - and robotic rival.

A Lions' guide to New Zealand
Toby Manhire gives the visiting Lions rugby team a quick guide to New Zealand.

Manhire: It's a middling Budget
COMMENT: The biggest risk of this Budget is that it lacks any big ambition.

Dangerous tripe of the anti-vaxxers
COMMENT: Science isn't controversial: refusing to vaccinate your child could harm others.

Meaty cyber leaks from English's inbox
COMMENT: The latest on the Prime Minister's correspondence - via alternative fax.

Toby Manhire: English's cunning plan
Toby Manhire says Bill English's social investment strategy raises a lot of questions.

A few tips for your visit, Mr Obama
COMMENT: It's not often we get a VVIP of your standing sir, says Toby Manhire.

Toby Manhire: Time to get on the buses
Forget volcanoes. All it takes to cripple Auckland's transport network is a bit of rain.

When politicians use social media
COMMENT: The hazards for social-media-using politicians are plentiful, writes Manhire.

Manhire: Hacker finds juice in PM emails
COMMENT: Notorious internet ninja hacking the PM's emails again, Toby Manhire writes.