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 2003 DECEMBER 2003 With such dislocated symbols, how do we imagine a future? 30 December 2003 NZ Herald column A world city remakes itself 22, 23 December 2003 NZ Herald Season of encouragement -- and a strong new brand? 23 December 2003 NZ Herald column The political year belongs to a man of quiet strength 16 December 2003 NZ Herald column A taxing brain-teaser; untangling the jumble in income assistance 9 December 2003 NZ Herald column Justifying war: the Bush-Blair axis of evidential evaporation 2 December 2003 NZ Herald column NOVEMBER 2003 A government for a people who look to the government 25 November 2003 NZ Herald column The drive for Maori development 18 November 2003 Business Herald Linking social services to better do our dirty work 18 November 2003 NZ Herald column Shifting the Maori focus from gaps to opportunity 11 November 2003 NZ Herald column Can conservative Clark hold Labour steady on course 4 November 2003 NZ Herald column Don Brash's cultural challenge 1 November 2003 Business Herald OCTOBER 2003 Don Brash's way of thinking 29 October 2003 NZ Herald A party in need of a GM political system 28 October 2003 Alternative NZ Herald column Who, Hu and Dr Who: a tale of two weekends 28 October 2003 NZ Herald column Peters' circular logic levers off cultural security fears 21 October 2003 NZ Herald column Cutting back traffic demand 18 October 2003 Business Herald NZ First's challenge: to widen its range 7 October 2003 NZ Herald column Japan at a crossroads 1-4 October 2003 NZ Herald SEPTEMBER 2003 The cost of banishing risk 30 September 2003 NZ Herald column Helen Clark business hero 24 September 2003 Business Herald Small, isolated and pastoral: so turn to China? 23 September 2003 NZ Herald column The cost of the state 20 September 2003 Business Herald Business and the Supreme Court 18 September 2003 Business Herald Reforming the state ‹ again 17 September 2003 Business Herald When being small is certainly not beautiful 16 September 2003 NZ Herald column Now to debate some big constitutional matters 9 September 2003 NZ Herald column Trust matters: just look on the world stage 2 September 2003 NZ Herald column AUGUST 2003 A defining moment: can a nation be built here? 26 August 2003 NZ Herald column The Hodgson tax: are the peasants really revolting? 19 August 2003 NZ Herald column The Duynhoven doctrine: an affair of honour 12 August 2003 NZ Herald column United Future's secret: divided we stand 5 August 2003 NZ Herald column JULY 2003 Asia back on the foreign policy agenda 30 July 2003 Business Herald A year to test MPs' beliefs and political footwork 29 July 2003 NZ Herald column A corner has been turned.Now what is to be done? 22 July 2003 NZ Herald column The upside-down politics of indigenous rights 15 July 2003 NZ Herald column Brash's tough manifesto for National 14 July 2003 Business Herald Good heavens, it's raining and Labour's still dry 8 July 2003 NZ Herald column Distilling an ethic for the foreign policy jungle 1 July 2003 NZ Herald column JUNE 2003 What you don't see can tax you nonetheless 24 June 2003 NZ Herald column Ethnicity and the Treaty: no simply matters 17 June 2003 NZ Herald column Surprise: a public intellectual can win votes and influence people 10 June 2003 NZ Herald column The acceptable face of socialism? 9 June 2003 Business Herald Who is sovereign here, Parliament or the people? 3 June 2003 NZ Herald column Redirecting tertiary education 2 June 2003 Business Herald MAY 2003 Why the government still pays heed to the Greens 27 May 2003 NZ Herald column The man who would be (strictly) Keynes 26 May 2003 Business Herald Making welfare work in the troubled 2000s 20 May 2003 NZ Herald column Yet another RMA amendment on the way 19 May 2003 Business Herald Trade Labour plus prudence and skill 16 May 2003 Business Herald A cabinet basking in the afternoon sun 13 May 2003 NZ Herald column Look to next year's Budget 12 May 2003 Business Herald Where has the big tough National party gone? 6 May 2003 NZ Herald column Where is the drive to save energy? 5 May 2003 Business Herald APRIL 2003 Time for some markers in the Treaty road ahead 29 April 2003 NZ Herald column Water: the next big infrastructure issue 28 April 2003 Business Herald Is the PM's European journey really necessary? 22 April 2003 NZ Herald column Reorganising the state sector 21 April 2003 Business Herald The power of humility in the democratic process 15 April 2003 NZ Herald column Shuffling the deck chairs as an iceberg looms 8 April 2003 NZ Herald column Is the Iraq campaign the end of globalisation? 1 April 2003 NZ Herald column MARCH 2003 Iraq has made the UN more relevant, top scholar says 25 March 2003 NZ Herald news What is the real war going on here? 25 March 2003 NZ Herald column When might Iraq be "our business"? 18 March 2003 NZ Herald column Now for a liberal ACT to follow 11 March 2003 NZ Herald column So you think it's sport? It's the money 4 March 2003 NZ Herald column FEBRUARY 2003 Navigating the transition to a new generation's country 25 February 2003 NZ Herald column Getting a national debate started 24 February 2003 Business Herald Ideas to fix up globalisation 19 February 2003 Business Herald Now to produce an idea to make a nation here 18 February 2003 NZ Herald column Labour's challenge: project a Labour vision 11 February 2003 NZ Herald column The Maori economy: a good story 4 February 2003 Business Herald The Treaty: Instrument of division or unity? 4 February 2003 NZ Herald column JANUARY 2003 How about something simple and practical? 28 January 2003 NZ Herald column Finding a principle in the Iraq tangle 21 January 2003 NZ Herald column Riding through the (research) valley of death 14 January 2003 Business Herald A sobering tale for the end of summer 14 January 2003 NZ Herald column Labour's cultural challenge - the term of the taniwha 7 January 2003 NZ Herald column CONTACT P O Box 9494, Wellington, New Zealand Email: ColinJames@synapsis.co.nz HOMEPAGE