Face of the Day
Asked if he would work with Labour, Winston Peters said, “We’re never going back there again”.
NZ Politics
From Reality TV to Real Politics: High-Outrage Disruptors Are Upending the Establishment
As media fragments further, high-outrage will dominate – pulling politics toward extremes. Low-outrage parties might claw back with ‘comfort’ appeals during backlashes, but the disruptors are here to stay, shaking the normal order.
Maybe We Should All Identify as Māori?
If equality is the goal, then policies must be universal, needs-based, and blind to race. Because, when identity becomes currency, people will inevitably try to spend it.
Hipkins Launches Labour’s Gaslighting Election Campaign
An election-year address that only works if New Zealanders have collective amnesia.
Will a New RNZ Board Stop the Rot?
Companies such as Stuff and NZME (publisher of the Herald) can make their own rules, as long as they’re willing to risk consequences such as loss of trust and declining readership. RNZ (and TVNZ, but let’s not go there) has no such latitude.
2026 Through a Political Lens
Right now the political waters might look more like the Cook Strait on a bad day, but I think by election day the sun will be shining on the coalition.
Latest Taxpayers’ Union Poll: A Wake-Up Call for the Centre-Right
The centre-right needs to capitalise on the discontent, sharpen its message and remind Kiwis what is at stake. Otherwise, prepare for higher taxes, more division and a government that prioritises ideology over commonsense.
They Are Busy at Work
Gain of function research ramps up with the support of the US military.
Luxon’s State of the Nation
Dull or disciplined? The PM’s State of the Nation laid out an election strategy built on continuity and trust.
A Failed Trip to Auckland CBD
The lasting, departing impression of our day trip to Auckland CBD is of a third-world city dressed up and marketed as first world – an un-developing city living of borrowed prestige.
Luxon Drops the Election Date and Hipkins Fumbles Again
Kiwi voters must vote for either National, ACT or NZ First to continue forward, otherwise we will be dragged backward by the race baiters and the retards. This isn’t hyperbole: it’s the stark choice ahead.
A Check on Our School Attendance Issue
Education in NZ in 2026 needs a great deal of work – from attendance to achievement.
