The Herald Inquisition: Claire Trevett assesses Jacinda Ardern and Bill English.

COMMENT: Labour's water policy is not as difficult to understand as you might think.

Comment: Turning Turei's pronouncement into a virtuous act of heroism is way off the mark.

OPINION: Little has done all he could in the interests of his party.

All Blacks fans riven with uncertainty but this is series we have craved.

COMMENT: Could you live without advertising? Oh, dear God, how I could.

Readers respond to a suggestion that cyclists should be taxed.

Rachel Stewart explains why she's not going to be positive just to please chirpy men.

COMMENT: Quantity over quality will turn round to bite tourism industry.

Comment: Elderly, white males are as pesky, autumnal flies for Rachel Stewart.

COMMENT: The sense of wonder, of rising above it all, never gets old, says Rachel Stewart.

COMMENT: It takes two to tango - so it's time men took equal contraceptive responsibility.

COMMENT: John Clarke's genius was what made him distinct, writes Rachel Stewart.

COMMENT: I've always suspected NZ's scarcity of environmental enforcement was willful.

COMMENT: Embrace the new - it's the way of the world, says Lizzie Marvelly.

COMMENT: Women taking care of women challenges the status quo, writes Rachel Stewart.

COMMENT: The Te Awa Tupua Bill is a unique approach which we need more of.

COMMENT: One of the women involved in the death of Nia Glassie about to have her fifth child. Taxpayers will raise all of them.

COMMENT: There is only one word that can truly take responsibility for gender pay disparity, and it is sexism.

OPINION: Human capacity for animal cruelty never-ending, writes Rachel Stewart.

Years ago, a Maori boy was caught stealing lollies at the local Four Square. A report labelled him a "thug". He was 10 years old, writes Dame Susan Devoy.

COMMENT: I greatly resent Family First attempting to use experiences of sexual violence in order to advance its anti-trans agenda.

I respond to Rosemary Mackenzie (Letters February 22). Reynold Macpherson wished to become the mayor and came second. He therefore

The newly-announced Mana-Maori electoral deal is already causing acrimony, writes Bryce Edwards.

COMMENT: There's something about animal farming and meat-eating that defies rational gravity.

COMMENT: If we had more people in Parliament who would live long enough to experience the results of their actions, we'd all be better off.

COMMENT: Personal battles are waste of energy when tackling climate change requires us all.

COMMENT: The teddies and cupids Valentine's Day brings are vile but dedicating a day to romance is still a lovely idea, writes Lizzie Marvelly.

COMMENT: If risible views heard on plane above Godzone are pakeha norm then help us all.

Paul Tapsell A_140308jb09bop.JPGTE ARAWA TRIP: Hariata Kereopa and Ellen Tamati in front of one of the buses at Ko Te Hamatuti Marae