Today, National MP Jamie-Lee Ross (a member of the Collins/Slater faction) came out on TV3 and said that New Zealanders weren't interested in John Key's and Cameron Slater's text message exchanges this week.

This week the world learned the link between the spread of Ebola and climate change.

Labour's leadership election is finally over with the winner being Andrew Little. I just wonder though, with Little's election, as to whether (in the immortal words of the Rocky Horror Picture Show) Labour has taken a slight jump to the Right?

The daring escape of convicted killer, fraudster and paedophile Phillip John Smith last week brought glaring discrepancies in our justice, corrections and border control systems to light. And one of these aspects could have been fixed by National years ago.

Former Australian prime minister Gough Whitlam, who passed away at age 98 today, was and is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, progressive leader of all time in Australia.

I've been thinking about why National won on September 20. There are a whole host of reasons but I'll go into the key elements (pun intended) from a left perspective of why they did so.

The United States and some of its Arab allies attacked Islamic State (IS) targets in Syria this afternoon. Consequently, the US has now entered as a combatant into the bloody and convoluted conflict that is the Syrian Civil War.

The United States and some of its Arab allies attacked Islamic State (IS) targets in Syria this afternoon. Consequently, the US has now entered as a combatant into the bloody and convoluted conflict that is the Syrian Civil War.

I'm back again blogging after what has been a long election campaign. I chose to stop blogging as I had campaign related duties to fulfil for the Green Party. I can say, having been a list candidate for the party in last weekend's poll, there is much to digest.

I believe that, as we mark the 99th Anzac Day tomorrow, that our Government should apologise to the World War I conscientious objectors who were treated so badly.