October 2023
December 2022
July 2022
April 2022
January 2022
October 2021
- A submission on the COVID-19 Public Health Response Amendment Bill (No 2)
- Draft Submission: COVID-19 Response (Management Measures) Legislation Bill
September 2021
- Not too late to make the Counter Terrorism Legislation Bill clearer
- Everything was Done; or some answers to some of the questions people have been asking
August 2021
July 2021
- Political opinion and the proper scope of hate speech laws; a post in honour of John Campbell
- A Story in Three Acts; or Hate Speech and Second Order Effects
- Steelmanning hate speech reform
June 2021
- The Government's Proposed Decriminalisation of Racist Hate Speech
- Submission on the counter-terrorism legislation bill (updated)
April 2021
- A draft submission on the Harmful Digital Communications (Unauthorised Posting of Intimate Visual Recording) Amendment Bill
- A submission on the Films, Videos, and Publications Classification (Urgent Interim Classification of Publications and Prevention of Online Harm) Amendment Bill
November 2020
October 2020
September 2020
August 2020
June 2020
May 2020
April 2020
- A draft submission on the Electoral (Registration of Sentenced Prisoners) Amendment Bill
- Waiver, the singular Crown and the conduct of Crown legal business
March 2020
February 2020
December 2019
October 2019
July 2019
April 2019
March 2019
- Why the censor's total ban on possession of "the Manifesto" is wrong
- Terrorism Offences and Murder Sentencing: An Explainer
- The climate strike and the voting age
December 2018
September 2018
August 2018
July 2018
June 2018
March 2018
February 2018
January 2018
December 2017
November 2017
- Questions, but no answers, with thanks to David Simon for opening my eyes
- Despite Simon Bridges' idiocy, does he have a point on overall (subject) select committee membership?
October 2017
September 2017
March 2017
February 2017
- The inflation adjustment of benefits; or a bill for Keith
- Spun Off: New Zealand's other most racist law
January 2017
- New Zealand rockets up the anti-Corruption ratings: a non-Spinoff investigation
- Three Strikes five years on! Now with accurate numbers!
December 2016
November 2016
October 2016
September 2016
- On Gell-Mann Amnesia; or You Suck at This
- The Spinoff: Offensive and Inaccurate? When proof of accuracy isn't enough to prove accuracy
August 2016
- It’s Carter/Docherty Day; or three short – and wholly unrelated – things
- The law to make it easier for airports to sell your stuff
- Voting in an STV election
May 2016
- Geoffrey Palmer has decided to write a constitution
- An update of changes to suicide-reporting law (updated)
April 2016
March 2016
- Future Leaders for Democracy; or lowering the voting age
- The Teapot Moan Scandal Ends; or Who will Broadcast the Teapot Tape?
- The flag referendum: complicating your decision
January 2016
November 2015
October 2015
September 2015
- The Greg King Memorial Blogpost: Three Strikes, Five Years On (now retracted)
- Update: Coroner's investigation
- Breaking News: Man Shot by Police; or the $600 tweet
- Update: Into the River
- Into the River/Interim Restrictions
August 2015
July 2015
April 2015
March 2015
- Compensation for Teina Pora?
- What next for Winston?
- Update on the Former MP's travel perk
- MPs to vote on raising international travel perk
- The Northland by-election; or The so-called Tizard Effect
December 2014
November 2014
- A rather incomplete submission on the Countering Terrorist Fighters Legislation Bill
- Gerry Brownlee is Innocent; or Free the Brownlee Three (updated)
October 2014
September 2014
August 2014
June 2014
April 2014
December 2013
November 2013
October 2013
- Last Minute Lobbying: MPs' Pay
- Fact check: Q+A on mayoral resignations
- The Review of Standing Orders
September 2013
- Council elections: FPP Q&A
- Oops: how some prisoners serving life sentences get to vote
- Dewey Defeats Truman; or Advice to those polling in preferential systems
August 2013
- The Police Investigation into the GCSB
- Fact Check: New Bail Laws
- Gordon Campbell @GordonCampbell_ #GordonCampbell
July 2013
June 2013
May 2013
March 2013
February 2013
January 2013
October 2012
- Kim Dotcom: all the fault of the Immigration Act?
- Kim Dotcom: We need an Inquiry!
- Dotcom spying: Crown criminal liability?
September 2012
- Kim Dotcom vs. The Teapot Tapes
- Kim Dotcom: Questions and Answers
- Kim Dotcom and the GCSB
- MMP Review: Last chance!
August 2012
- All over bar the drinking? (updated)
- Alcohol Game Theory
- Strange bedfellows
- MMP Review: Trusting Voters
- MMP Review - The Proposals
- Before the fall
July 2012
- Presuming innocence
- Johndotbanks - the law is over, let the politics commence
- On the possibilities of a retrial of Chris Kahui (edited)
May 2012
- Urewerrors
- Shirking their responsibilities?
- MPs' Pay
- Sanctuary!
- A matter of conscience
- Semi-Random election law thoughts
April 2012
- The law may be that stupid
- MMP Review #3: The Submission
- MMP Review #2: Dual Candidacy
- MMP Review #1: The Party Vote Threshold
March 2012
February 2012
December 2011
- 14 Pages of Democracy
- Paula's Peril; or The (un)certain Scenario
- Election #11: Notings
- Election '11 - Counterfactual #2
November 2011
- Referendum '11: counting the votes
- Election '11: the special votes
- Election '11 - Counter-Factual #1
- Election Fact Check #9: Actually, it matters a great deal
- The New Zealand Election Tax
- Election Fact Check #8: Electoral Law Consensus
- Referendum Fact Check #7: Supplementary Member?
- Referendum Fact Check #6: Afternoons with Jim Mora
- Referendum Fact Check #5: How Hard Is It? (updated)
- Infrequently asked questions
October 2011
September 2011
August 2011
July 2011
June 2011
May 2011
April 2011
March 2011
January 2011
October 2010
September 2010
August 2010
June 2010
April 2010
March 2010
February 2010
January 2010
August 2009
July 2009
February 2009
January 2009
November 2008
October 2008
September 2008
August 2008
June 2008
- Tastes like democracy
- If we only had time
- What was I thinking? What were they thinking?
- I have this theory
- If Britain Jumped off a Bridge...
- It's time for a time for a change