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 2002 DECEMBER 2002 Unfinished business: who owns our elections? 31 December 2002 NZ Herald column A man who turned luck into good management 24 December 2002 NZ Herald column A fine line between a free lunch and forelock-tugging 17 December 2002 NZ Herald column A little bit of decentralisation 10 December 2002 Business Herald No 4 now but can Clark get to No 1? 10 December 2002 NZ Herald column A tender shrub in need of water on the roots 3 December 2002 NZ Herald column NOVEMBER 2002 Boldness, the missing policy dimension 29 November 2002 Herald special A bill that merits mulling over 26 November 2002 NZ Herald column Restoring Labour as outsiders' champion 19 November 2002 NZ Herald column Not enough babies. Maybe it's time to emigrate? 12 November 2002 NZ Herald column Globalisation is good for you, says new book 6 November 2002 Business Herald Floundering National puffs up small parties' importance 5 November 2002 NZ Herald column OCTOBER 2002 Now it's the turn of the blokey icons 29 October 2002 Business Herald I'm a bear and I'm here to eat -- I mean, hug -- you 29 October 2002 NZ Herald column What next when civilisation clashes with darkness? 22 October 2002 NZ Herald column Get closer to Australia, Oz expatriate bosses say 8 October 2002 Business Herald Under-resource the public service at your peril 8 October 2002 NZ Herald column Peter Dunne: centring the Labour party 2 October 2002 Business Herald The scramble is on for an STV omelette 1 October 2002 NZ Herald column SEPTEMBER 2002 A biosecurity horror story 28 September 2002 Business Herald Principles are for the back pocket 24 September 2002 NZ Herald column Personal responsibility? What on earth is that? 17 September 2002 NZ Herald column Wanted: more motivated scientists 16 September 2002 Business Herald Running the Iraq rapids with an "exceptionalist" United States 10 September 2002 NZ Herald column How sustainable is the idea of sustainability? 3 September 2002 NZ Herald column AUGUST 2002 Now the left's turn to worry about welfare 27 August 2002 NZ Herald column Bringing back the family -- this elections' legacy 20 August 2002 NZ Herald column Big prize: huge management task 13 August 2002 NZ Herald column Is history beginning again? 8 August 2002 NZ Herald Where to for a 21% National party? 6 August 2002 NZ Herald column ELECTION ARTICLES 2002 A slight rightwards shift 29 July 2002 Business Herald The election in four quarters 29 July 2002 NZ Herald The day the triffids upset a royal progress 26 July 2002 NZ Herald News Review The big game in this election 23 July 2002 NZ Herald News Review A prize fight 20 July 2002 NZ Herald Weekend Review All in pursuit of 4% growth 16 July 2002 Business Herald A tale of Levis and Vegemite 15 July 2002 NZ Herald News Review What to do about an odd couple 16 July 2002 Business Herald They're coming to get you 6 July 2002 NZ Herald Weekend Review It's a matter of security 3 July 2002 NZ Herald News Review What a campaign can do for a leader 1 July 2002 NZ Herald News Review JULY 2002 Three challenges for Helen Clark 30 July 2002 NZ Herald column Business adjusting to some government hands-on 24 July 2002 Business Herald Is this the election that transforms MMP? 23 July 2002 NZ Herald column Not the election to say it's time for a change 16 July 2002 NZ Herald column Why fear deserves politicians' respect 9 July 2002 NZ Herald column The gangster capitalism spectre that stalks the parties 2 July 2002 NZ Herald column JUNE 2002 Shadows of times past for three ageing prize fighters 25 June 2002 NZ Herald column It's a matter of if the boot fits 18 June 2002 NZ Herald column The red school bus that runs over governments 11 June 2002 NZ Herald column Political varroa mite buzzes the Beehive 4 June 2002 NZ Herald column MAY 2002 The Greens are a single-issue party now 28 May 2002 NZ Herald column Social spending is still really king 24 May 2002 Business Herald Next term for the acid test 24 May 2002 Business Herald Whose election is it? Not yours 21 May 2002 NZ Herald column Going where it is uncomfortable 14 May 2002 NZ Herald column Shared problem of a pesky young woman 7 May 2002 NZ Herald column APRIL 2002 Why Boag's heavy hitters make a difference 30 April 2002 NZ Herald column A pricked pride stings us all 23 April 2002 NZ Herald column Constitutional revolution or fixing the courts? 16 April 2002 NZ Herald News Review Power to the people? don't be daft 16 April 2002 NZ Herald column Should there be a dedicated commercial court? 15 April 2002 Business Herald An integrity law that is not 9 April 2002 NZ Herald column English ponders individual social accounts 8 April 2002 Business Herald Drop the waiver rule, says MMP sire 8 April 2002 NZ Herald news The loner strikes out again 4 April 2002 NZ Herald news Clark's new friends help define a centre 2 April 2002 NZ Herald column Who moves the army? 1 April 2002 Business Herald MARCH 2002 Two remarkable people fall to a left hook 26 March 2002 NZ Herald column The United States is not always right 19 March 2002 NZ Herald column How to get risk into research 16 March 2002 Business Herald Out on the edge, how do you build your vote? 12 March 2002 NZ Herald column The deeper issue in the road tax aggro 5 March 2002 NZ Herald column FEBRUARY 2002 Now for the next Anderton party? 26 February 2002 NZ Herald column Time to change our national symbols? 19 February 2002 NZ Herald column Eat your cake and grow it too 13 February 2002 Business Herald The spectre that stalks Bill English 13 February 2002 NZ Herald column Innovating with the private sector 7 February 2002 Business Herald Waitangi: it's about power-sharing now 6 February 2002 NZ Herald column JANUARY 2002 Making a nation still eludes us 30 January 2002 NZ Herald column Getting poorer to get richer 23 January 2002 NZ Herald column An act of the dark ages 16 January 2002 NZ Herald column Why MPs should be paid more 9 January 2002 NZ Herald column Seeking heroes for an uneasy culture 2 January 2002 NZ Herald column CONTACT P O Box 9494, Wellington, New Zealand Email: ColinJames@synapsis.co.nz HOMEPAGE