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# Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/125
- URL: https://goodoil.news/your-daily-ten-10-2026-125/
- Published: 2026-07-13T22:00:01.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-13T22:00:01.000Z
- Description: 10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You
- Author: Cam Slater
- Tags: Ten@10, NZ Politics, World Politics, Media Bias

**This is edition 2026/125 of the *Ten@10* newsletter.**

Hi all,

This is the Ten@10, where I collate and summarise ten news items you generally won't see in the mainstream media.

Enjoy!

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## 1\. “Which Is to Be Master – That’s All.”

*Chris Trotter — Writing from Left Field*

- ⚖️ Trotter says a boil-over between the Judiciary and the Legislature is simmering after former Solicitor-General Una Jagose KC’s Law Association breakfast address urging politicians to “straighten-up and fly right.”
- 🗣️ Jagose: “I think we are in trouble as a society and a democracy… We lawyers need to speak up more about the constitutional settings.”
- 🏃 She urged lawyers to proselytise in “running clubs” and “book clubs” — examples Trotter reads as pure middle-class self-improvement.
- 📜 He traces the “rights that lie so deep” claim to Lord Cooke’s *Taylor v New Zealand Poultry Board* dicta, calling it a slippery slope from torture hypothetics to judicial overreach.
- 🔥 The real flashpoints: legislative efforts to reverse decolonisation/indigenisation in the courts, and Jenny Marcroft’s Legislation (Definitions of Woman and Man) Amendment Bill on transgender issues.
- 🗣️ Jagose, quoting Sir Michael Cullen: “Can Parliament conclusively define, without Māori, the meaning of that Treaty… Do you see limits to constitutional legitimacy there? Because I do.”
- 🎯 Takeaway: in any struggle between Parliament and the Courts, only one side has democratic legitimacy — and Trotter says it is not the Courts.

[Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=4057098&post%5Fid=206765259&isFreemail=false&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjA2NzY1MjU5LCJpYXQiOjE3ODM4OTg2NDUsImV4cCI6MTc4NjQ5MDY0NSwiaXNzIjoicHViLTQwNTcwOTgiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.vVbcJ5To9KPkyMfT%5FakhbFCLtp4ZALDwgES5cdrIQ-g&ref=goodoil.news)

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## 2\. Modern Politics Has Become a Parallel Universe

*Rodney Hide — Brash & Mitchell*

- 🧠 Hide argues progressive politics operates as a “secularised salvation story”: original sin becomes systemic oppression; awakening is “getting woke”; salvation is endless activism for equity.
- ⚧️ Gender theory reframes biological sex as part of the fallen order; dissent over sports, prisons and medicalisation of children is cast as heresy.
- 📜 Treaty politics is cast as original sin (colonisation as theft), collective guilt and perpetual redemption through “partnership” and resource transfer.
- 🗣️ “To have a penis and wear a skirt, or to have a Māori ancestor, is both an occupation and a claim to serious political power.”
- ⚡ The heat of modern debate comes from two sides inhabiting different stories — one sees policy trade-offs; the other sees cosmic struggle against evil structures.
- 🎯 Takeaway: free speech and debating as equals against results — not purity tests — is how Kiwis reclaim a shared public square before the parallel universe wins.

[Read More](https://www.brashandmitchell.com/post/rodney-hide-modern-politics-has-become-a-parallel-universe?utm%5Fcampaign=bae52d35-0dbd-4511-a0b6-6265e3cad6fa&utm%5Fsource=so&utm%5Fmedium=mail&utm%5Fcontent=a50b90f4-1e68-47ed-850d-5ad2c645fae3&configurationId=1e868109-7e9f-4852-82bf-5cd5dcb47468&actionId=923601ea-11e6-975b-c01e-42db2a0af372&cid=39daa79b-294e-4bc5-9457-02b1d5857d3c)

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## 3\. The Dynamite Fishermen of Democracy

*Zoran Rakovic — Brash & Mitchell*

- 💥 Selwyn independent candidate Rakovic compares party politics to dynamite fishing: stun the lake, count the floating fish, cry “Mandate!” amid civic debris.
- 📚 Drawing on Simone Weil, he says parties manufacture collective passion and teach members to experience obedience as conviction.
- 🎭 Negative partisanship “works” like rats work as urban waste disposal — the method produces results while poisoning the water all future politics must live in.
- 🤝 Doorstep politics is “philosophically subversive” because voters become persons rather than demographic targets for consultants to message at.
- 🗣️ “The quiet scandal of democracy… is that party politics is often too stupid for ordinary people.”
- 🎯 Takeaway: the real ballot question is whether we reward those who blast the lake or those who learn the river and cultivate trust.

[Read More](https://www.brashandmitchell.com/post/zoran-rakovic-the-dynamite-fishermen-of-democracy?utm%5Fcampaign=bae52d35-0dbd-4511-a0b6-6265e3cad6fa&utm%5Fsource=so&utm%5Fmedium=mail&utm%5Fcontent=b7e98884-b5a4-48c6-93b3-6165c8578cd5&configurationId=1e868109-7e9f-4852-82bf-5cd5dcb47468&actionId=923601ea-11e6-975b-c01e-42db2a0af372&cid=39daa79b-294e-4bc5-9457-02b1d5857d3c)

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## 4\. The Flying Golf Ball Conundrum

*Peter Allan Williams — Peter’s Substack*

- ⛳ Golf NZ: paid club members rose from 105,967 (2019) to 153,665 (2025) — a 45% jump; \~350,000 casual players and half a million play at least once a year.
- 🏠 More traffic means more balls over fences — dramatised in a TVNZ *Sunday* piece on Avondale Golf Club (est. 1919) and young families in surrounding social housing.
- ⚖️ Brookfields Park near Palmerston North was ordered closed as an “actionable nuisance” after \~20,000 balls hit a neighbouring organic farm; the farm then bought the course.
- 📜 Being there first does not win: under the tort of nuisance, neighbours have a right to quiet enjoyment; judges tend to favour home occupiers.
- 🛠️ Clubs (Akarana, Cromwell, Avondale) respond by moving out-of-bounds lines, paying for broken windows, or redesigning holes — or face “Catch-22” when closing a course for housing angers neighbours who like the amenity.
- 🎯 Takeaway: “In the end there’s only one guaranteed solution. Golfers must learn to hit the ball straight. Yeah right.”

[Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=1788933&post%5Fid=206652086&isFreemail=true&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjA2NjUyMDg2LCJpYXQiOjE3ODM4MjU1NjMsImV4cCI6MTc4NjQxNzU2MywiaXNzIjoicHViLTE3ODg5MzMiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.R0GfcmuDWiCpNOb5iBGEKfAbFXDqWzJm8JH0fkAbU34&ref=goodoil.news)

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## 5\. Socialism as Royal Road to Fraud

*Roger Simon — American Refugees*

- 📰 Axios claims both left and right have rejected free markets — Trump taking government stakes in private firms, socialist Democrats winning primaries — one of the biggest US policy shifts since Reagan.
- 🕵️ Citizen journalist Nick Shirley confronts an adult-care centre in Flushing, Queens claiming 7,899 members while staff admit they do not have 7,000 — overbilling at $1,600 per patient for $12.9 million in 2024.
- 💰 Shirley links \~$44 million siphoned by Korean-mafia networks; Minnesota programme fraud estimates exceed $9 billion; California estimates \~$24 billion.
- 🗣️ Simon’s diagnosis: “No one is watching the store” — officials are held accountable mainly at elections and often placate the very communities where fraud thrives.
- 📉 He extends Thatcher’s line: socialism does not only run out of other people’s money; it creates fertile ground for stratospheric fraud.
- 🎯 Takeaway: fraud is the contemporary, personal argument against the socialist siren of “equal outcomes” — and Shirley deserves better than a scrubbed Pulitzer.

[Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=2747685&post%5Fid=206587941&isFreemail=true&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjA2NTg3OTQxLCJpYXQiOjE3ODM4NDg2NTQsImV4cCI6MTc4NjQ0MDY1NCwiaXNzIjoicHViLTI3NDc2ODUiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.6-jxwM0qyq%5FYJ3M-LAfgeF9BTzJw3qLhtRRk-SkyNsQ&ref=goodoil.news)

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## 6\. Anthropic’s Dystopian Plan

*Michael Shellenberger — Public*

- 🤖 Anthropic staffer Chloe Lubinski compared AI “character” and self-stories to human moral conversion — a metaphor Shellenberger says misrepresents the research and humanises machines.
- 🗣️ CEO Dario Amodei: if the exponential continues, AI will soon be “better than humans at essentially everything.”
- 🧹 Anthropic’s residual job vision: grounds maintenance, food service, personal care — spun as “relational” work of “loving one another.”
- 💰 Shellenberger: a near-trillion-dollar valuation depends on eliminating high-paying jobs so customers save billions; service work is treated as “essentially nothing.”
- 🌍 He links Anthropic’s rhetoric to Malthusian “Great Turning”/Great Reset ideology and anti-nuclear deep ecology (Joanna Macy).
- 🗣️ Free Press’s Spencer Klavan: “Treat things like people, and you run the risk of treating people like things.”
- 🎯 Takeaway: humanising AI and dehumanising people is both a sales pitch and a civilisational error.

[Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=279400&post%5Fid=206713454&isFreemail=false&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjA2NzEzNDU0LCJpYXQiOjE3ODM4NzYwNzQsImV4cCI6MTc4NjQ2ODA3NCwiaXNzIjoicHViLTI3OTQwMCIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.PpZdoZKbZOP2QAKZxPbPvr6Gwzm49sk790tfb7jeSkE&ref=goodoil.news)

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## 7\. The Modi Lovefest

*Peter Allan Williams — Peter’s Substack*

- 🤝 Williams finds a NZ Prime Minister holding hands with a visiting 75-year-old PM in public “just weird” — something never seen with Chinese, Australian or US leaders.
- 🏟️ Modi filled Spark Arena with \~10,000 of the Indian diaspora in a rally of “adulation” that Williams compares to cults of personality.
- 🗣️ Modi spoke in Hindi with no translation for non-Hindi speakers; Luxon called Indians in NZ “younger, wealthier and better educated.”
- 🌉 Both leaders cast the diaspora as a “living bridge” — Modi: “your body may be here, but your heart remains connected there.”
- 🗣️ Luxon: “We should reject outright the voices and the politicians that are wanting to whip up anti-immigrant sentiment,” and thanked Chris Hipkins for supporting the India FTA.
- ✈️ Winston Peters was “coincidentally on purpose” out of the country; a promised US$20 billion NZ investment in India over 15 years is framed as commitment by India and aspiration by NZ.
- 🎯 Takeaway: trade is fine; all-in lovefest diplomacy and dual loyalty messaging deserve a cooler head.

[Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=1788933&post%5Fid=206763581&isFreemail=true&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjA2NzYzNTgxLCJpYXQiOjE3ODM4OTgzOTQsImV4cCI6MTc4NjQ5MDM5NCwiaXNzIjoicHViLTE3ODg5MzMiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.U8KsxbvcoOqyyvU-T5Ctk4MYRZbvd9R7q0U2MTP4tu8&ref=goodoil.news)

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## 8\. RIP Ann Widdecombe — and Shame on Her Haters

*Tom Slater — spiked*

- 🕯️ Former Tory MP and Reform UK spokeswoman Ann Widdecombe, 78, was found covered in blood in her Dartmoor home; a murder investigation was launched; a man arrested and later released without charge.
- 📺 Even before murder was suspected, the left’s response mixed glee and derision: a since-deleted *Socialist Worker* piece titled “Hurrah! Ann Widdecombe is strictly dead”; Peter Tatchell signed off “BIGOT!”
- 🎙️ Sky’s Adam Boulton called her a “spinster” and “old maid” and re-aired virginity gossip while her body was barely cold.
- 🗳️ Slater places her with Benn, Tebbit and Skinner — bombastic, sincere politicians motored by duty rather than phone scripts.
- 🇬🇧 She backed Brexit, rejected positive discrimination, and said of private adult life: “I do not care tuppence what consenting adults do.”
- 🎯 Takeaway: basic decency is suspended for dead conservatives — and the public’s horror shows that sulphurous fringe is not the nation.

[Read More](https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/07/11/rip-ann-widdecombe-and-shame-on-her-haters/?ref=goodoil.news)

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## 9\. AI and the Elephant in the Data Room

*John Mikkelsen — The Spectator Australia*

- 🤖 Mikkelsen asks whether AI can be trusted as a reliable information source: “no… Maybe… Or to quote Split Enz, *sometimes*.”
- 🎬 Google AI wrongly identified the killer in an SBS murder mystery until he corrected it and received an apology.
- ☢️ Asked twice about the Coalition’s energy policy, AI insisted on “seven government-owned nuclear power stations” at named coal sites — conflating Peter Dutton’s old election blueprint with the formal plan to lift the ban and crowd in private capital.
- 🔗 The bot even linked the official Liberal “Plan for Affordable Energy” it had not read — then apologised for “conflating two different stages.”
- 🏭 On AI data-centre demand, retiring coal and China’s/India’s coal build-out, the bot agreed Australia faces a “global paradox” of exporting coal while enforcing a capital-intensive domestic transition.
- 🎯 Takeaway: double-check AI “facts” — especially on politics — before letting them shape the public debate.

[Read More](https://www.spectator.com.au/2026/07/artificial-intelligence-and-the-elephant-in-the-data-room/?ref=goodoil.news)

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## 10\. Starmer’s Britain Is Ineffectual and Sinister

*Max Jeffery — The Spectator Australia*

- 🇬🇧 “Starmer’s Britain” entered the lexicon in May 2021 after Hartlepool: at once gormless and ominous.
- 📜 Canon of the genre: the Chagos deal, early prison releases with bottle-popping, Rachel Reeves crying, Manchester Airport police beatings, the Assisted Dying Bill’s senescence.
- 🧳 Great Man of the Starmerverse: Hadush Kebatu — sex offender who sparked the Epping riots, was accidentally released, tried to turn himself in, then deported with a £500 “resettlement grant.”
- 🏛️ David Lammy and Richard Hermer went to Chatham House to rebrand Starmer as a foreign-affairs strongman restoring Britain’s international reputation.
- 💸 Hermer blamed energy bills on “Putin’s aggression” and blocked shipping lanes — using Harold Wilson’s “pound in their pocket” line.
- 🎯 Takeaway: “He has done nothing with power, but also everything” — the festering bin bag of British absurdities feels made for his rule.

[Read More](https://www.spectator.com.au/2026/07/starmers-britain-is-ineffectual-and-sinister/?ref=goodoil.news)

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