Reputational damage Craig suffered was almost entirely from his own actions, says judge.

But the outcome may not be known for some time.

Interruptions, confusion and dirty politics fill the Craig v MacGregor trial transcript.

Colin Craig's cross-examination of Rachel MacGregor in their defamation trial has begun.

The Colin Craig saga continues in the High Court.

Colin Craig is again airing the nature of his relationship with Rachel MacGregor.

The former political party leader and his ex-press secretary are suing each other.

Three years after nearly getting into Parliament, the Conservatives are a spent force.

No room for the Conservatives or The Opportunities Party at first debate.

Colin Craig comprehensively breached his confidential settlement with Rachel MacGregor according to a Human Rights Review Tribunal decision.

An application by the former Conservative Party leader to have Vodafone release correspondence between former Party board members has been rejected.

The former Conservative Party leader is being sued by one of the men he has claimed is behind a "campaign of defamatory lies".

They say hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, but in the case of Colin Craig it's the men who want his entrails for garters, writes Barry Soper.

Colin Craig says new allegations that he broke electoral laws are just an extension of a "dirty politics" campaign against him.

The former Conservative Party leader has called a press conference in Auckland, and is promising two "significant announcements".

Colin Craig's Conservative Party has slumped to its lowest rating since it was founded, polling at 0.7 per cent.

Colin Craig has sent a personal letter to Conservative Party members to apologise about his behaviour.

Last week's battles in the Conservative Party are over as the board resigned one by one.

Colin Craig last night said the new board - and therefore his suspension - was invalid because neither natural justice nor the party's constitution had been followed at yesterday's meeting.

Colin Craig has made a nonsense of his enemies' pigeonholing of him as a political neophyte, writes John Armstrong.

Recreational fisherman Steve Braunias feels his line twitch... Is it a snapper? A kahawai? A trevally? No, no, and no - it's Colin Craig's secret diary.

Colin Craig was, or is, one of those lone wealthy figures found in many democracies who aspire to public office on their own terms but with no particular mission to accomplish.

The Conservative Party's disintegration continued today as two more board members resigned, leaving only one member left.

Largely flying under the radar of mainstream public debate, the Government has launched a major Defence Review and initial public consultations finished this week.

Poets, wrote Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1821, "are the unacknowledged legislators of the world". "You would say that, you're a bloody poet," legislators have harrumphed ever since.

Colin Craig seems to be in the long tradition of public figures who wrap themselves in a cloak of virtue but fail to live up to standards, writes Paul Thomas.

His former press secretary could be concerned she would face legal action if she disclosed any damaging details.

Redemption is a powerful biblical and electoral concept. So can Colin Craig and his Conservative Party be welcomed back into the fold?

To liken the mass resignations from Conservative Party boards to rats jumping from a sinking ship would be unfair - to rats, that is, writes John Armstrong.