The Irish Independent’s View: Revelation of emergency housing costs delivers another crushing blow to Government’s credibility

The Irish Independent’s View: Revelation of emergency housing costs delivers another crushing blow to Government’s credibility

It was the French liberal economist Frederic Bastiat who said: “The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.”

Echo Chamber: Emergency housing, climate targets and the art of not saying sorry

‘I was wrong’ isn’t always as easy as saying ‘what I would just say to you …’ Echo Chamber is The Spinoff’s dispatch from the press gallery, recapping sessions in the House. Columns are written by politics reporter Lyric Waiwiri-Smith and Wellington editor Joel MacManus. Question time in the House on Wednesday was another bog-standard affair. Straight into it, probing from Labour leader Chris Hipkins to prime minister Christopher Luxon over emer…