You have to feel sorry for John Key that he’s been subjected to so many off-stage alarums and excursions during this, the dirtiest election campaign of my lifetime. It started with Hager’s Dirty Tricks book, dropped close to the campaign, leaving insufficient time to check the details. Hager calculated on our media being sufficiently full of gullible journalists who would …

It was the bomb that was supposed to flip the election on its head. The documents set to unveil a vast conspiracy by the Prime Minister against Kim Dotcom. John Key’s Moment of Truth. What a flop. There was no smoking gun. No game-changing piece of information. Instead, politically charged hearsay recounted as claims about New Zealand’s mass surveillance drew …

Pyne Could Corp, the asset management firm controlled by George Kerr, is seeking the removal of two directors of Equity Partners Infrastructure Company No.1, as it looks to boost its stake to almost half. Pyne Gould wants to raise its stake to 49 percent from the 27 percent of the investment company it already holds, the Guernsey-based company said in a statement. At the …