Five Prayers a Day and Nobody Asked Your Permission
When cultural activity becomes religious imposition, it’s time for New Zealanders to start asking hard questions.
NZ Politics
Coalition on Track for Second Term as Poll of Polls Gives Luxon 88 Per Cent Chance
A lot can change in politics but right now the trend favours the coalition returning with a stronger NZ First presence and some big adjustments in the seat counts.
Quick Hit – Luxon and Peters Wedge Labour: No Grand Coalition as TPM Implodes
🔴 VIP EARLY ACCESS Rapid Intelligence Briefing | 12 May 2026 | Stuff.co.nz + open source | High Confidence | Medium-High Urgency EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has categorically ruled out any grand coalition with Labour, calling the notion “insanity” while he cleans up the previous government’s mess. Winston Peters has
One Last Question, Prime Minister
Barry Soper’s honest reflections from the halls of power.
This Is Building for the 19th Century
The City Rail Link is a $5.5 billion monument to backward thinking.
The Climate Mythology and Bias
This is a figure so small it’s effectively imperceptible and far below margins of error in any temperature that instruments measure. Less even than the effect that opening your fridge door for a few seconds has on the temperature in your whole house!
Media Luvvies Lose It as Ani O’Brien Holds One of Their Own to Account
The mainstream seem determined to die on this hill, defending their outdated methods while attacking anyone who steps outside the club. Meanwhile the new media age has arrived.
Hot Food and Clean Clothes Are So Last Century
Swarbrick’s ‘electrify everything’ zealotry meets reality yet again.
Grand Coalition Talk Reveals Elite Panic as Minor Parties Rise
People want options beyond the tired old red and blue. They want parties that will actually challenge the status quo rather than protect it. Hooton can push his grand coalition fantasy all he likes.
Stanford Admits Kiwis Don’t Want To Work
Decade after decade governments have failed to successfully tackle the problem. They tinker at best. The issue is poor policy.
Blind Spots in the Battle Against Extremism
How did individuals whose own public statements minimised, reframed, or in some cases celebrated acts of mass violence against civilians come to hold influential roles in a government-funded initiative specifically established to prevent such acts?
‘Family Feud’ Will Be a Good Watch.
There is no doubt that what Winston is saying will resonate with the public. Nicola has the unenviable task of convincing the voters to think otherwise.