Reviewing Picks for 2025, Predictions for 2026
For 2025, buoyed by confidence in my abilities as a prognosticator, I decided to go for 15 predictions for the year which should probably result in a metaphorical faceplant. Let’s see how I went.
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What Is It With the Left?
The moral is to never let the left near the levers of power, or disaster will surely follow.
Where Is the Consistency?
When the architect of the Christchurch Call appears to abandon those principles when applied to a different community, it raises fundamental questions about whether those principles were ever truly universal, or merely convenient.
Roy Morgan Poll Shows Election Year Knife-Edge, With Luxon Holding National Back
National has a glaring problem here, and I have said it time and time again: they need real strategies to turn this around. At least the problem has a name, and that name is Christopher Luxon.
Good Oil General Debate
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The Good Oil Word of the Day
The word for today is… pious (adjective) - 1 a: marked by or showing reverence for deity and devotion to divine worship b: marked by conspicuous religiosity 2: sacred or devotional as distinct from the profane or secular : religious 3: showing loyal reverence for a person or thing : dutiful 4
The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse
And they came and besought them, and brought them out, and desired them to depart out of the city.
Tiny Home Thursday
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IRAN IN FLAMES: U.S. Ready To Strike
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Ending Red Tape: How Fast Track Helps New Zealand Grow
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Fast Track Explained: National vs Labour In Plain English
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The Good Oil Daily Roundup
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The Politics of Not Wanting To Know
Jihadist attacks are followed not by sober engagement but by a sequence of shock, condemnation and symbolic reassurance. Leaders urge unity, we’re prompted not to ‘look back in anger’, candles are lit, teddy bears are hugged and attention is steered firmly away from questions of causation.