Key is the leader of the Executive. He should have a vital interest in who reports to him. We badly need a PM with the confidence to put constitutionally dangerous elite ninnies firmly back in their boxes.

COMMENT: Foreign buyers' money can only affect prices if there is a shortage of land to build on. But New Zealand is not short of land. It is short of consents to use land.

It would be “idiotic” to subject judges to regular performance reviews, Auckland Queen's counsel Grant Illingworth says.