Wonder Out Loud
This is where I wonder out loud about politics, leadership, and society. Sometimes messy, often questioning, always curious.
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Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me
A strongman, a showman, and a strawman walk into a bar
It sounds like the start of a joke, right? But it’s not that funny. It’s the politics of the right in 2026 — and if any of it feels strangely familiar, that’s because it’s a rerun. We’...
Roads of National Significance vs KiwiBuild
In 2017, one of Labour’s big election promises was KiwiBuild. Stripped down to its theory of change, it went something like this: if government rapidly unlocks land, underwrites and commissions 100,000 capped-price new homes, and streamline...
The National do-over
National’s 2023 mandate wasn’t a blank cheque. It was a specific, time-bound trust: steady the economic ship, ease the cost of living, govern from a broadly centrist place. Three years later, National is back on the trail asking voters to f...
Politicians playing snakes and ladders
The current coalition government has, entirely accidentally, done something useful: they’ve shown us exactly how broken our governance game is.
The problem is that our pendulum swing between left and right feels like a never-ending game of...
It's the economy stupid!
I’ve been doing a lot of listening and reading lately, trying to make sense of the economic conversations in our poltical landscape.
There are two particular claims that circulate constantly in New Zealand political life - so often they h...
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Gen X, raised by the Silent Generation, parenting Gen Z. I write about politics, education, communities, books, and life — usually by wondering out loud.
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