“I miss Helen” badges are on sale at the counter of Wellington’s Unity Books. One wonders if any badges were sold to members of Labour’s caucus.

A big part of the current economic debate is about the shape of our economic recovery. You know, the recovery, the one which looks to be under way, any time soon.

The race is on for the central-west Auckland seat of Mt Albert. Who will win? Why? Does anyone care? Rob Hosking asks, and answers your questions.

Michael Cullen’s appointment to the board of New Zealand Post has one major political impact – it completely undercuts the basis of Labour’s whole political attack for the past 18 months.

Perhaps the most telling thing of all about Labour’s attack on National's handling of the ACC crisis is ex Minister Maryann Street’s almost total silence.

The Reserve Bank marked April Fools Day by putting out a warning interest rates were getting too high. It wasn’t a joke. Perhaps the real joke was interest rates creeping upwards in the first place.

That fizzing sound you hear is the rebalancing, the extrusion of toxins from the economic body.

The art of political leadership in hard times, someone once said, is to tell people the truth about how bad things are, but to do it in a way which gives them hope.

The government’s rhetoric on ACC has been overheated – but that does not mean there are not major problems with the scheme.