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Roger Partridge I Plain Thinking

Roger Partridge

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Why the Left Keeps Misdiagnosing Populism

This column was first published by CapX, the online newspaper of London’s Centre for Policy Studies, on 3 June 2026. It was written for a British audience, but the diagnostic mistake it identifies is universal.

Andy Burnham has one prescri...

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Lord Cooke’s Indictment

This column was first published in LawNews on 1 June 2026. It continues a series examining the Supreme Court’s departure from the constitutional limits of judicial power.

The debate about New Zealand’s Supreme Court has been framed as a qu...

16 days ago
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Schumpeter comes to Wellington

In 1987 Telecom New Zealand employed about 25,000 people. By 1997 it employed under 8,000. A single corporation shed 17,000 jobs in a decade, in a country of 3.3 million. The cost of Telecom’s long-distance calls fell by 60 per cent between...

23 days ago
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Commission still confusing competition with counting

Imagine that a public health authority publishes a report on the nation’s diet. After 22 years of data and a 100-page methodology, it announces the four least nutritious food groups. They are: beverages, snacks, prepared meals and condiment...

a month ago
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Have we Been Breaking Local Government by Trying to Fix it?

Local government is hard to defend. Rates are rising at more than three times inflation. Debt has doubled in less than a decade. Consents drag on while housing remains unaffordable.

Each generation of politicians has reached for the same f...

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    I'm a recovering lawyer, think tank co-founder and senior fellow. I write on the ideas and institutions that underpin freedom and prosperity. New Zealand is my vantage point, but the themes are universal.

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