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Many are feeling the sooner the election is over, the better. The polite and courteous reaction from voters on the doorstop parallels what happened in the 1990 election with Labour's record landslide loss to National – voters had long since made up their minds to change the government, argues Peter Dunne

If you're disinterested, despondent or deflated by the election campaign and its daily parade of pointless behaviour, here's why you shouldn't miss your opportunity to exercise a little strategy in order to try and engineer a result.

Severe cuts could accelerate department's decline, writes David Williams.

The 'tough on crime’ narrative, driven by opportunistic politicians, dominating the election campaign contradicts the evidence that prisons are a training ground for harder criminals, writes Bex Silver