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Roger Partridge

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The Fault in Democracy That Elections Do Not Fix

The American satirist P. J. O’Rourke spent the late 1980s watching the United States Congress at work. He ended the book he wrote about it, Parliament of Whores (1991), with this: “Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is,...

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Who Makes the Judges? (And why the process is not what Parliament laid out)

This article was first published in LawNews on 8 October 2026. It continues a series on how the New Zealand Supreme Court has upset the balance of the constitution by straying out of its lane – and what can be done about it.

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The House Price Story Almost Everyone Missed

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Your Business, Their Election Promise

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Who makes the law? The Crown answers

Two speeches from the Crown’s most senior lawyers over the past month have answered a question that should never have been in doubt: Who makes the law?

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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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