Inspired by RCR Bites, a modern interpretation of Aristotle on how uncertainty, information overload, and ambiguity quietly shape power. Aristotle reaches us today not through a lecture hall or a worn manuscript, but through a passing line in a modern bulletin, RCR Bites . A fragment dropped into the stream of daily updates. And yet, like all enduring ideas, it refuses to stay small. “It is also the policy of a tyrant to impoverish his subjects… that they may be kept busy with their daily...

The Labour Party constitution contains a real gem. We doubt Willie ‘democracy has changed’ Jackson has read his party’s constitution, but here it is: “All political authority comes from the people by democratic means, including universal suffrage, regular and free elections with a secret ballot.” It is the first principle in their Party Constitution, and we couldn’t have said it better ourselves. If democracy means anything, it’s that the majority can vote the bastards out. Democracy amounts...

Just-released March 2026 ethnic data shows Maori form the largest group of dependent unemployed people. At the end of March 2026 48,261 Maori  were receiving a Job Seeker-Work Ready benefit (Job Seeker-Health Condition/Disability is a separate category for those considered temporarily unemployed due to illness.) NZ Europeans followed at 43,626. Pacific  people occupy third place at 19,005. Asians trail back at 6,840 with  Middle Eastern/ Latin American/ African   people numbering 2,178....