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Transatlantic rift widens with every imprisoned German tourist or expelled French researcher

Once Europe and USA were friends, but Trump administration has fractured that friendship.

Aaron Smale: Winston Peters’ talents mask hollow brittleness, which has hindered his ability to achieve anything notable

Peters has made his career pretending to fight division while carefully cultivating it.

Charlotte Grimshaw: On conversations with a chronic alcoholic

It might be akin to talking with a ghost, but these are conversations of memory and trust.

Russell Brown: Elon Musk’s path to gamer exile

The strange story of Elon Musk and Path of Exile 2 says much about where the world is now.

Duncan Garner: Chris Hipkins’ inconvenient truth – the Greens are loopy and Te Pāti Māori too radical

The mums and dads in leafy suburbs who vote Green might now be rethinking their support.

Jane Clifton: When your quiet corner of the world is shot to pieces

Towns - and countries - made famous by a TV series or film can be a mixed blessing.

From Bezos with love? Brit horror at 007’s new American overlord

Britain's favourite film hero, James Bond, to come under control of an American overlord.

Duncan Garner: The only question that will matter at the 2026 election

If the answer is 'no', our government will have a fight on its hands.

Jane Clifton: I have seen the future of road-traffic management

Forget about orange cones and get ready to welcome a more organic alternative.

Duncan Garner: Why I’m picking Christopher Luxon won’t lead National into the next election

The phone is off the hook, his MPs are plotting, Luxon is done.

Jane Clifton: Eurovision might be the ultimate foreign policy test for Trump and Putin

Politics meets pop in the venerable annual song contest.

Aaron Smale: We can’t afford to fail Māori children

The need to improve Māori educational outcomes is even more vital given demographic trends

The shame game: The legal lines of public humiliation

David Harvey: One must be very careful in mounting an online shaming campaign or exposé.

Russell Brown: Brian Tamaki’s date with Destiny

Brian Tamaki has never reflected on the consequences of his words or actions.

Duncan Garner: Will citizens’ arrests deter retail thugs or will someone die?

If our backsides are on the line, we need to know the cops will be there quick smart.

Jane Clifton: Scotland’s peculiar perverse cat problem

Europe’s growing practice of reintroducing fauna strikes wild issues.

How one speech turned the tide in Germany’s election

All eyes were on the far-right AfD party, but a smaller political force gathered steam.

Charlotte Grimshaw: When caring is ‘woke’

In 2025, the world has a new vibe: Trump is conducting real estate foreign policy.