Yesterday this newspaper published a YouGov survey showing that support for Labour is at its lowest level for 65 years; even Michael Foot did better. As Prof Anthony King commented, it looks as if the Government and the electorate are heading for a bitter divorce at the general election. But the significance of the poll [...]

Republicanism in this country is the aloofness of the Supreme Court from the political departments and its superior respectability compared to the accommodating availability of the President of the Philippines and Congress to the importunate electorate and their dependence on its capricious goodwill.
I had a colleague on the Court who during the more than eight [...]

Over the last 12 years Ive filed away mountains of photos, newspaper clippings, notes and reports.
Now that Ive almost completed my book, Mayor of Two Cities, I have to admit that trying to cover all the characters, projects, success stories and disasters of the last decade, just in Invercargill alone, would take at least three [...]

Broom was unbeaten on a career-best 116 at stumps at Seddon Park, a key contribution to Otagos 271 for seven.
With unexpected help from Warren McSkimming, who struck 71, the pair put on 112 for the seventh wicket as the visitors recovered from a position of peril at 108 for six.
It was right-hander Brooms fourth first-class [...]

Younger patients and those without obvious heart disease risk factors should be asked when they arrive at hospital emergency rooms if they have used cocaine, the American Heart Association said in a statement in its journal Circulation.
Clot-busting drugs and beta-blockers - treatments often given to patients who have suffered a heart attack - can be [...]

Patagonia is the southernmost triangle of South America, straddling Argentina and Chile, one of the last wildernesses to be conquered by modern man. Westerners have long regarded the region an empty place, a land of myths, a refuge from the world. Back in the 1970s, Bruce Chatwin wrote that it was one of the few [...]

Sliding across a frozen lake in the Norwegian wilderness, the stars twinkling above you as a team of huskies pulls you onwards sounds lovely, wouldn’t you say? You might even think it sounds idyllic. Well, let me tell you: it was horrible. Here [...]

Unlike some wonders of the world, the Grand Canyon is better in real life than you could ever imagine. Apart from one hotel on the rim which is inexplicably built in the style of a 1970s polytechnic, it is unspoilt, unfenced, silent, awesome [...]

Crose had hoped the big lake might yield a fish. Or two.
She didn’t expect the expedition to end at Wal-Mart, where the family bought two 15-gallon coolers just to keep the piles of freshly carved fillets from rotting on the drive home to Des Moines.
“Oh, my goodness,” the 40-year-old mother of two says of the [...]