Good Grief Golly G!
It sounds very much like Golriz Ghahraman has been getting a five-finger discount from Pak’nSave.
Politics
Everything about politics
NZ Politics Daily: 16 January 2025
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards PARLIAMENT, GOVERNMENT, PUBLIC SEVICE Audrey Young (Herald): Sir Brian Roche spells out what’s wrong with the public service (paywalled) Derek Cheng (Herald): Swell the pot, then raid it: Inside the ministerial wrangling over using the tourist tax to improve the Government’s books
It’s Ok When Brown People Do It?
It seems it is OK to be racist, when you are targeting white people.
This Was Never Mainstream
Lockdowns were a security state-driven pandemic response rooted in fear, panic, and authoritarianism. They were never mainstream.
How ‘Liberal’ First Became a Political Adjective
To abandon the word liberal would be to abandon our history. It was and is a fitting moniker for the philosophy of freedom.
2025: A Year of Unprecedented Change
Hold on – the ride has only just begun. Get your affairs in order.
NZ Politics Daily: 15 January 2025
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards PARLIAMENT, GOVERNMENT Derek Cheng (Herald): Revealed: The 10 emails to Minister Nicole McKee that helped toughen Three Strikes (paywalled) Kathy Spencer (Post): How the red-tape crusader is failing in his own mission (paywalled) Lillian Hanly (RNZ): The Regulatory Standards Bill: What you need
NZ Politics Daily: 14 January 2025
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards PARLIAMENT, GOVT LEGISLATION Anna Whyte (Post): Jam-packed political start lies ahead (paywalled) Spinoff: NZ politics in 2025: The big issues on which the year will hinge Dave Armstrong (Post): The country has bigger fish to fry (paywalled) Herald: David Seymour’s Treaty bill
Have the Woke Only Just Realised They Are the Baddies?
The woke left are sitting watching their heroes being torn down and wondering why.
NZ Politics Daily: 13 December 2025
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards PARLIAMENT, PUBLIC SECTOR Vernon Small (Sunday Star Times): Time for Labour to shrug off the shackles of election defeat Max Rashbrooke (Post): The honeymoon’s over, but a hangover’s just kicking in (paywalled) Marc Daalder (Newsroom): Labour’s message for 2026: Are you
Amazing What a Change of Government Does
NZ’s worst landlord has issued 553 ‘Section 55A notices’ since July 2024, up from 41 issued during the same period the previous year.