EDITORIAL: This country has no need to lower its interest rates.

The response of police to reports of people running up big bills in restaurants and then disappearing raises concerns not only for the restaurant owners.

As the curtain rises on the 31st Olympics, the prospects for a memorable games in Rio de Janiero are uncertain.

The description "head coach" on Kevin Roberts' CV is probably one he deeply treasured.

COMMENT: London's Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, wrote an important article for the Mail on Sunday this week.

The debate over the Bain murders looks destined never to be resolved in the public mind.

Regulation is hard to get right. The political climate tends to swing from excessive freedom to excessive restriction or vice versa.

It is a tough task for teenagers to make sound decisions about their career path.

After winning the Rugby World Cup last year, All Black coach Steve Hansen could probably name the tenure of his next contract.

Predators have a price tag. According to a University of Auckland study, the cost of ridding New Zealand of pests over 50 years is about $9 billion.

We are going to see Russians winning medals and an Olympic movement in disgrace.

The Republican Party in the United States conferred its nomination for President on a man of doubtful political pedigree and unpredictable intentions.

A Treasury official suggested the Government could save more than $500 million a year legalising the popular drug.

Plagiarism is bad form. Campuses throw out undergraduates caught cribbing lines. But that's not the way it works in Donald Trump's world.

Having once been too reliant on one export market, NZ does not want to be in that position again, whether the market is post-Brexit Britain or China.

Russia and her allies have started a fightback to stay in the Rio Olympics after the sensational disclosures about a state-directed doping programme.

The Vice-President should enjoy his 24 hours here. His personality and his politics are closer to a Kiwi style than most American officials we greet.

Having summoned democracy to his side, the Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan may need to be more willing to honour it.

It is hard to escape the sense that Hekia Parata should have gone further when announcing a limited inclusion of digital technology in school curriculum.

State housing and building programmes are just the political branding of a package that contains more potent taxation inside.

If the gun lobby in the US has been impervious to the carnage caused by lax gun laws, it surely cannot continue to ignore the power of phone cameras.

The Ministry of Health refuses to fund a simple sleeping pod for babies so they might more safely sleep alongside their mothers.

Way out in space, so far that it takes a message nearly an hour to reach earth, the Nasa craft Juno is doing what the classical mythologists anticipated.

John Chilcot produced his verdict on the Blair Government's decision to join the US' invasion of Iraq. None of its findings are a surprise.

First Trump, then Brexit, now the Australian election has produced a rebellion of sorts.

Editorial: The PM's announced $1 billion fund for interest-free loans for infrastructure to support new housing developments is another piece in the continuing response to its most pressing problem.

Editorial: If Ports of Auckland was on the sharemarket, it would not be still enraging Aucklanders with these bids for more of the harbour.

Serious social imbalances take shine off good performances in polls and economy.

The ritual unveiling of the New Zealand Olympic uniform follows a now familiar path.

When most of us look at a map of Auckland's railways, a spur line to the airport appears obvious and easy.