Dunne's Weekly

28 November 2013 Amidst the frenzied debate about the suitability or otherwise of the untested, yet to be elected, Conservatives as a via...

21 November 2013 Most of us of a certain age can remember what we were doing on 22 November 1963, the day of President Kennedy’s assassin...

14 November 2013 This weekend’s Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Sri Lanka seems set to be dominated by the furore surrounding...

7 November 2013 Karl Marx once said famously that the thing to learn from history is that people do not. That certainly seems to be the...

31 October 2013 A sure sign of looming danger is when a politician opines the eerie words, “I’ve been thinking.” It is usually a warning ...

24 October 2013 Many years ago, when I was a Labour MP, there used to be a weekly debate in Caucus about the theme for the week. If it wa...

17 October 2013 In the 1980s the Wellington retailer Alan Martin of L.V. Martin & Son became a cult figure for his idiosyncratic tele...