COLIN JAMES Political Journalist & Analyst Reasoned feedback is welcome at the address  below. below. NEW ZEALAND HERALD ARCHIVE 2005 DECEMBER 2005 Twelve things to fix 30 December 2005 Business Herald A lie-flat holiday quiz 27 December 2005 NZ Herald column Thinking big 24 December 2005 NZ Herald Christmas feature Laid back like a lizard 20 December 2005 NZ Herald column Turning dissaving into saving 14 December 2005 Business Herald Missing competence 13 December 2005 NZ Herald column The yeah-right relationship 6 December 2005 NZ Herald column NOVEMBER 2005 Governing SOEs better 30 November 2005 Business Herald Three Fs for Peters 29 November 2005 NZ Herald column A nasty election aftermath? 22 November 2005 NZ Herald column It isn't rocket science 16 November 2005 Business Herald A one-country culture 15 November 2005 NZ Herald column Never send to find for whom the bell tolls 12 November 2005 Weekend Herald Muldoonism or crash? 11 November 2005 Business Herald Clark's New Zealand way 8 November 2005 NZ Herald column A small "w" in "whole-of-government" 2 November 2005 Business Herald National's missing small n 1 November 2005 NZ Herald column OCTOBER 2005 La constitution, c'est moi 25 October 2005 NZ Herald column The economic cost of a pandemic 19 October 2005 Business Herald What if... 18 October 2005 NZ Herald column No left majority. What's in it for business? 17 October 2005 Business Herald How Clark could get a fourth term 11 October 2005 NZ Herald column A problem of majorities 5 October 2005 Business Herald A new Treaty path for National 4 October 2005 NZ Herald column SEPTEMBER 2005 Fixing our elections 27 September 2005 NZ Herald column Learning time for Brash and Key 21 September 2005 Business Herald Healing a divided nation 20 September 2005 NZ Herald column Offsetting the Greens 19 September 2005 NZ Herald election features Time for Clark to rethink 19 September 2005 NZ Herald election features John Key was the star 16 September 2005 NZ Herald election features Can Clark lose the unlosable election? 13 September 2005 NZ Herald column Strategic cabinetmaking 12 September 2005 NZ Herald election features Efficiency rules 7 September 2005 Business Herald On the cusp of cultural change 6 September 2005 NZ Herald column The farm girl and socialist boy 5 September 2005 NZ Herald election features AUGUST 2005 The end of the liberal wave? 30 August 2005 NZ Herald column Are you what you vote? 29 August 2005 NZ Herald election features The binge election 24 August 2005 Business Herald Moving between spheres 23 August 2005 NZ Herald column In politics' supermarket 22 August 2005 NZ Herald election features The week of the tax cut 16 August 2005 NZ Herald column Managerial politics 15 August 2005 NZ Herald election features The long and short of the election 10 August 2005 Business Herald The role of the punch in election campaigns 9 August 2005 NZ Herald column History lessons 2 August 2005 NZ Herald column JULY 2005 When the machinery fails 27 July 2005 Business Herald The pot-and-kettle game 26 July 2005 NZ Herald column An election to lose? 19 July 2005 NZ Herald column A healthy divergence 13 July 2005 Business Herald An n-ship law change? 12 July 2005 NZ Herald column A tale of 'us' and 'them' 5 July 2005 NZ Herald column JUNE 2005 Education is (not) quality 29 June 2005 Business Herald Two leaders in need of speech therapy 28 June 2005 NZ Herald column Lost competence 21 June 2005 NZ Herald column A tangled environment 15 June 2005 Business Herald Tax cuts for grasshoppers 14 June 2005 NZ Herald column The PM's cat-and-mouse election 7 June 2005 NZ Herald column Labour in a minority? 1 June 2005 Business Herald MAY 2005 Maybe it's not so easy being Green 31 May 2005 NZ Herald column A taxing question for voters 27 May 2005 Weekend Herald Dunne goes hunting a different kind of centre 24 May 2005 NZ Herald column Set up for the crunch term 20 May 2005 Business Herald A tax principle established 20 May 2005 NZ Herald news Key's principles Business Herald A thousand cuts 17 May 2005 NZ Herald column Labour treasurers I have known 14 May 2005 Weekend Herald Can Peters be a centrist? 10 May 2005 NZ Herald column After the election the deluge 4 May 2005 Business Herald How to do business with Australia: look to Asia 3 May 2005 NZ Herald column APRIL 2005 Reshaping Gallipoli -- and a nation? 26 April 2005 NZ Herald column When the government gets down to business 29 April 2005 Business Herald The peril of cultural insecurity 19 April 2005 NZ Herald column Brash's tactical tangle 12 April 2005 NZ Herald column Turning grasshoppers into ants 6 April 2005 Business Herald Helen Clark and the 'vision thing' 5 April 2005 NZ Herald column MARCH 2005 One transition ends, another begins 29 March 2005 NZ Herald column The value in top-notch state servants 23 March 2005 Business Herald Taking risks and safe government don't mix 22 March 2005 NZ Herald column What the state gives... 15 March 2005 NZ Herald column Time to make Maori rich 9 March 2005 Business Herald Can ACT Hide and run? 8 March 2005 NZ Herald column Charles is among us: time to reflect 1 March 2005 NZ Herald column FEBRUARY 2005 National and state assets 23 February 2005 Business Herald A man of ideas 22 February 2005 NZ Herald column Managing the nanny state 15 February 2005 NZ Herald column National's "new conservatives" 8 February 2005 NZ Herald column Two peoples in one society 1 February 2005 NZ Herald column JANUARY 2005 Debt: a love affair that cannot go on forever 25 January 2005 NZ Herald column Orewa 2005: swell, not tsunami? 18 January 2005 NZ Herald column A tiny chink of national pride 11 January 2005 NZ Herald column Not an incredibly benign environment 4 January 2005 NZ Herald column CONTACT P O Box 9494, Wellington, New Zealand Email: ColinJames@synapsis.co.nz HOMEPAGE