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Claire Trevett: Crime, coalition 'cracks' and unicorn kisses - just another week in politics
OPINION: Also in today's wrap - the PM's medicine comeback and Andrew Bayly's flying leap.
Claire Trevett: PM's big-noting detracts from diplomatic wins
OPINION: The plane breakdown was bad enough. Then came the 'C-listers' clanger.
Jacinda Ardern blacklisted by Russia
Russia has blacklisted every New Zealand MP, and the heads of defence.
Claire Trevett: Budget won't be talked about for long
OPINION: The first Budget will not be talked about for long.
Claire Trevett: Border slip-ups - can National sneak through the political gap?
NZ Herald-Kantar poll had support for Labour to govern alone, but should they if they can?
Claire Trevett: Stunned Muller tries to swim upstream
Todd Muller wanted Paula Bennett on the backbench, but nobody puts Bennett in a corner.
Claire Trevett: The lockdown relief for all the lonely people
We have a Thomas the Tank Engine style controller & children are grounding the Boomers.
Beehive Diaries: the Covid-19 dance of distance
Step away from the Prime Minister, the Speaker rights a wrong.
Beehive Diaries: Winston Peters asked for pick for the US election?
Chris Bishop is caught out, Parliament farewells Jeanette Fitzsimons
Claire Trevett: Simon Bridges and the red tape under the bed
COMMENT: Bridges is unrepentant about bare-faced cheek in his regulations bonfire plan.
Claire Trevett: Why coronavirus threatens to derail Labour's election dream
The Government has faced its crises - but Covid-19 is its big test.
Beehive Diaries: Air NZ shin-dig and Winston Peters' slippers
Simon Bridges goes to the dogs, and a lolly hierarchy emerges in Parliament.
Claire Trevett: Why PM has chosen the weak option to deal with Peters
PM Jacinda Ardern had a choice: look weak, or unstable. She chose weak.
Claire Trevett: The no-show and power plays of Waitangi
A video clip from Waitangi was a melange of power plays between Peters, Shaw and the PM.
Claire Trevett: Bridges' big gamble
Simon Bridges' ultimate game plan is to starve Winston Peters out of Parliament.
Claire Trevett: Ardern v Bridges - the heart of their election-year battle
As the parties prepare campaign songs, few realised Labour's vision was in bitumen.
Claire Trevett: Jones and meat, glorious meat
Shane Jones has appointed himself guardian of the household freezer.
Claire Trevett: Jacinda Ardern's early election-year gift
COMMENT: Scott Morrison may secretly harbour same views on Ardern as Steve Price.
Top five columns of 2019: Claire Trevett
These were the most read columns by Claire Trevett in 2019.
Claire Trevett: With poll news grim, was this the Coalition's last supper?
Andrew Little, the Minister of Doing Things, issued a flurry of distracting announcements.
Claire Trevett: NZ First's mystery foundation and the donation law puzzle
COMMENT: Politicians make donation laws - then go to great lengths to find new loopholes.
Beehive Diaries: Jacinda Ardern's list-itis, Simon Bridges schooled by 8-year-old
Love for David Seymour from unusual quarters, Simon Bridges' review from an 8-year-old.
Beehive Diaries: Luxon ready for takeoff, Swarbrick's Boomer war cry, Jones' caveman moment
Chris Luxon fodder for comedy, Chloe Swarbrick gets on generational high horse.
Claire Trevett: Chris Luxon and the power of a name
So far, so John Key, but Chris Luxon's first steps into politics taught him a lesson.
Beehive Diaries: it was all Grant Robertson's fault
Grant Robertson inherits the job of official jinx, the lights go out on Simon Bridges.
Beehive Diaries: Insults, dicking around and car-tastrophes
Insults fly, and Shane Jones reads mean tweets.
Claire Trevett: Terrorism law tantrums serve nobody
Governments who take bipartisanship for granted do so at their peril.