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Written By: - Date published: 3:36 pm, February 13th, 2025 - 119 comments
Well it didn’t take that long: from one SecDef to another in a matter of a month. It’s time for a rethink on Ukraine and much else.
Update: Hegseth’s speech video
Written By: - Date published: 9:21 am, February 13th, 2025 - 7 comments
“Why is the Left failing?”
Written By: - Date published: 8:23 am, February 12th, 2025 - 18 comments
Remember National’s promise to get us back on track? Salvation Army’s latest state of the nation report suggests that for ordinary people things are getting much worse.
Written By: - Date published: 8:39 pm, February 11th, 2025 - 15 comments
Two recent polls both predict a one term National Government.
Written By: - Date published: 9:39 am, February 11th, 2025 - 13 comments
Kieran McAnulty’s points are fair and important – so why is media ignoring most of them? Also – Labour delivered 14,000 homes in government – so why is Chris Bishop blowing that trajectory up?
Written By: - Date published: 7:05 am, February 11th, 2025 - 11 comments
National wants more wealthy people to come to New Zealand to increase investment fund levels. But what if we created the situation so that locals could increase investment through Kiwisaver contributions?
Written By: - Date published: 8:41 am, February 10th, 2025 - 31 comments
As we approach the half-time oranges for his government, I thought I’d give Mr Luxon some feedback and a few suggestions on how he might turn things around – if becoming a real leader interests him.
Written By: - Date published: 9:12 am, February 9th, 2025 - 56 comments
You have to hand it to the right. They have succeeded in making ordinary people oppose the most beneficial projects imaginable. Like a group of residents in North Canterbury that is opposing construction of a solar farm.
Written By: - Date published: 5:05 pm, February 4th, 2025 - 5 comments
I had a great week at school!
Written By: - Date published: 11:28 am, February 4th, 2025 - 50 comments
And why isn’t New Zealand backing Canada against Trump’s self declared trade war?
Written By: - Date published: 1:47 pm, February 2nd, 2025 - 16 comments
Can Kerrin Leoni pave the way as Tamaki Makaurau’s first wāhine Māori Mayor? Open to all today from Nick’s Kōrero…
Written By: - Date published: 12:12 pm, February 2nd, 2025 - 16 comments
Ted Cruz has criticised New Zealand for requiring all Israelis to detail their military experience before coming to New Zealand. But there is a problem with this. He is wrong.
Written By: - Date published: 11:51 am, February 2nd, 2025 - 95 comments
The former ACT Party President’s name suppression ceased 2 years after Jago was charged, allowing ACT to bypass critical scrutiny during the 2023 election
Written By: - Date published: 8:00 am, February 2nd, 2025 - 28 comments
The Coalition is fighting a multi-front blitzkrieg to entrench neoliberal hegemony in NZ.
Written By: - Date published: 12:01 pm, February 1st, 2025 - 16 comments
What happened to the Curia Market Research suspension? David Farrar responded after RANZ hired an independent sub-committee to investigate complaints about polling integrity
Written By: - Date published: 10:18 am, February 1st, 2025 - 29 comments
I did not think it possible but it seems that every week Donald Trump does something that makes me think even worse of him.
Written By: - Date published: 6:13 pm, January 31st, 2025 - 10 comments
Davey Seymour’s Disgusting School Dinners, and the faster you go, the bigger the mess, but does Chris Bishop look bothered?
Written By: - Date published: 3:44 pm, January 30th, 2025 - 30 comments
The latest outbursts and brain farts from the great Kumara of the North…
Open to all today in Nick’s Kōrero – Shane Jones calls climate change ‘woke’ and says, ‘Send the Mexicans home’.
Written By: - Date published: 9:19 am, January 30th, 2025 - 9 comments
Recent polling suggests that two thirds of kiwis disagree with Nicola Willis’s decision to cancel the replacement Inter Island ferries contract.
Written By: - Date published: 5:06 pm, January 29th, 2025 - 14 comments
Stuart Nash has suggested that Labour is losing support for not sticking to its values. But his suggested policy solution would have Labour resemble National lite, not deepest red Labour.
Written By: - Date published: 1:05 pm, January 26th, 2025 - 56 comments
It’s time to highlight what a Labour plan for the New Zealand economy under a 2026 government would look like. And ask questions.
Written By: - Date published: 9:31 am, January 24th, 2025 - 22 comments
The PM’s ‘State of the Nation’ speech about the New Zealand economy titled “economic growth the key to better days ahead” was a bag of words with no plan.
Written By: - Date published: 10:00 pm, January 23rd, 2025 - 17 comments
For a year, Luxon and Seymour have been prepping the Overseas Investment Act to sell NZ off to wealthy foreigners. But who is running the show? Libertarian interests of course. And Winston Peters might find the money good enough to fold.
Written By: - Date published: 2:11 pm, January 22nd, 2025 - 39 comments
Golriz Ghahraman didn’t shoplift “again” – but recent media reports made it sound like she did. This article looks back on her history and her treatment by NZ’s political and media class.
Written By: - Date published: 12:15 pm, January 22nd, 2025 - 23 comments
* is not as great as you think.
Written By: - Date published: 9:49 am, January 22nd, 2025 - 42 comments
Why corporate fascism may no longer be a distant dream – and how it’s closer than you might think
Written By: - Date published: 11:28 am, January 21st, 2025 - 55 comments
He’s baack. The man least suited to running the world’s most powerful country is now President again.
Written By: - Date published: 1:12 pm, January 20th, 2025 - 61 comments
Christopher Luxon has conducted a major Cabinet Reshuffle with the stand out feature the demotion of Shane Reti and the transfer of Health from Reti to Simeon Brown.
Written By: - Date published: 3:27 pm, January 19th, 2025 - 14 comments
In his final speech Joe Biden has warned the world about the dangers posed by Oligarchs supporting the right into democratic power. He is right.
Written By: - Date published: 10:07 pm, January 17th, 2025 - 33 comments
The government has replaced half of the Waitangi Tribunal, removing three of NZ’s most highly regarded experts in mātauranga Maori.
Written By: - Date published: 2:21 pm, January 17th, 2025 - 62 comments
That grinding noise you can hear from the Parliamentary precinct is the sound of National backbenchers sharpening their knives getting ready for a change of leadership. Because the latest Curia poll shows National has fallen behind Labour in the preferred party stakes.
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