COLIN JAMES Political Journalist & Analyst Reasoned feedback is welcome at the address below. If you live outside the New Zealand Herald circulation area and would like to receive my Herald column by email, email me at the address below. NEW ZEALAND HERALD ARCHIVE 2001 DECEMBER 2001 Sweeping changes for the state sector 31 December 2001 Business Herald Did the world change on September 11? 26 December 2001 NZ Herald column Needed: a centre party to swing with 20 December 2001 NZ Herald News Review The minister for tough tasks 19 December 2001 NZ Herald column Can we have economic union with Australia? 13 December 2001 Business Herald Are they getting tougher on crime? 12 December 2001 NZ Herald column With a little help from her friends 5 December 2001 NZ Herald column We're all regional developers now 1 December 2001 Business Herald NOVEMBER 2001 Business about to be more assertive 28 November 2001 Business Herald The nudge party v the niche party 28 November 2001 NZ Herald column Getting entrepreneurial about social policy 21 November 2001 NZ Herald column Taking the fright out of politics 14 November 2001 NZ Herald column The bicultural path to a new centre 7 November 2001 NZ Herald column Trickling down the knowledge wave 5 November 2001 Business Herald OCTOBER 2001 Maybe it's time to be unreasonable 31 October 2001 NZ Herald column Now for a battle of political generations 24 October 2001 NZ Herald column Two countries diverging 23 October 2001 Business Herald GM: a choice demanding more than a majority 17 October 2001 NZ Herald column The end of the yellow brick road 10 October 2001 NZ Herald column 'Clean-green' comes with risks 3 October 2001 NZ Herald column At the heart of market regulation 1 October 2001 Business Herald SEPTEMBER 2001 The deeper issue in Bush's holy war 26 September 2001 NZ Herald column Getting some perspective into monstrous matters 19 September 2001 NZ Herald column The tangled task of unravelling injustice 12 September 2001 NZ Herald column Regulatory high tide or deluge? 10 September 2001 Business Herald The spud that blossomed into a banker 8 September 2001 NZ Herald Weekend Review Watch out for the poor, huddled masses 5 September 2001 NZ Herald column AUGUST 2001 The victim in the Henry affair 29 August 2001 NZ Herald column Clearing the air over the Tasman link 22 August 2001 NZ Herald column National's plans for the RMA 18 August 2001 Business Herald article Putting trust to the test 15 August 2001 NZ Herald column Sustainability is not just about trees 8 August 2001 NZ Herald column Putting a toe in the Knowledge Wave 6 August 2001 NZ Herald article Deciding how upbeat we can be 1 August 2001 NZ Herald column JULY 2001 Can National learn to be bicultural? 25 July 2001 NZ Herald column A star candidate for the power game 18 July 2001 NZ Herald column The real governance issues Rankin raised 11 July 2001 NZ Herald column There was no Herald column on 5 July  because the space was commandeered for a series on the economy JUNE 2001 Maharey gives us "social investment" 27 June 2001 NZ Herald column When the polls don't tell it like it seems 20 June 2001 NZ Herald column Thinking locally, who is the government? 13 June 2001 NZ Herald column The deadly luxury of knowing you're right 6 June 2001 NZ Herald column MAY 2001 Bill English builds a policy 30 May 2001 NZ Herald column "Economic transformatiion" on the cheap 25 May 2001 Business Herald article The defining tension at the heart of the Budget 23 May 2001 NZ Herald column Who wins when politics gets personal? 16 May 2001 NZ Herald column When fiscal ends won't meet 9 May 2001 NZ Herald column The core of the community card issue 2 May 2001 NZ Herald column APRIL 2001 Time to reflect on the A(nz)ac phenomenon 25 April 2001 NZ Herald column A new "social policy" Treasury 24 April  2001 NZ Herald article The unlikely coalition glue -- Jim Anderton 18 April 2001 NZ Herald column When is a crisis not a crisis? 11 April 2001 NZ Herald column The lure and challenge of "social entrepreneurs" 4 April 2001 NZ Herald column MARCH 2001 We don't feed Christians to Lions, do we? 28 Mar 2001 NZ Herald column National reaching for the "values" weapon 21 Mar 2001 NZ Herald column Fixing a fragmented public service 14 Mar 2001 NZ Herald column The price of ditching a long-held principle 7 Mar 2001 NZ Herald column FEBRUARY 2001 Kiwibank's real point is the cost to you 28 Feb 2001 NZ Herald column Why scotching scandal is a political must 21 Feb 2001 NZ Herald column One-sided games are just not cricket 14 Feb 2001 NZ Herald column Nationalising Waitangi Day 7 Feb 2001 NZ Herald column JANUARY 2001 Trying to prod life into the economy 31 Jan 2001 NZ Herald column A party in need of a remake 24 Jan 2001 NZ Herald column Still to earn: a real mandate 17 Jan 2001 NZ Herald column Bobbling on the boiling currents of history 10 Jan 2001 NZ Herald column CONTACT P O Box 9494, Wellington, New Zealand Email: ColinJames@synapsis.co.nz HOMEPAGE