AI Buries Global Change Notions
You listening Chris Luxon? “Politicians welcomed the chance to blame others: if a wildfire or a flood devastates your town, point the finger at the changing climate rather than your own failure to prepare.”
NZ Politics
A Cozy Coffee With Coster
New Zealand’s public service commissioner remains strangely loyal to a disgraced ex-police commissioner.
Sounding the Alarm About the India FTA
Whistleblower warns of ‘uncapped’ immigration and systemic fraud.
The Old National Party Is Gone
This is why the election of 2023 now feels like a broken promise.
This Disaster Could Have Been Avoided
What we have just witnessed is a civil engineering failure thanks to iwi and council incompetence, not climate change, not spirits…
NZ First’s Poll Surge: Winston’s Winning While the Big Boys Flounder
NZ First rejects globalism outright and voters love it. This poll surge proves the public craves parties with spine, not more milquetoast mush from the majors. Watch this space: 2026 could be Winston’s biggest rodeo yet.
Face of the Day
Asked if he would work with Labour, Winston Peters said, “We’re never going back there again”.
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.