> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://goodoil.news/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/131 - URL: https://goodoil.news/your-daily-ten-10-2026-131/ - Published: 2026-07-21T22:00:50.000Z - Updated: 2026-07-21T22:00:49.000Z - 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 2026/131 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! --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/07/b666935a-cabf-471c-8313-927921345566_2854x2092.webp) ## 1\. Who Would the Opportunity Party Put in Power? *Bryce Edwards — The Democracy Project* - ⚖️ TOP could decide who governs after November — yet Qiulae Wong still will not say Luxon or Hipkins; uncertainty is “leverage” to “work with both sides.” - 📊 Not a 2% curiosity: RNZ-Reid 4.7%, June Verian 4.6% — threshold-close enough that post-election power is no longer hypothetical. - 🎭 Pitch: replace NZ First as pivot without Peters theatre — socially liberal, environment-focused, land tax + Citizen’s Income; method still Peters-like (private talks after votes). - 📞 Wong process: exclusive talks first with largest party, then other side if stalled; leadership group + board decide — procedure without predicted outcome. - 🗳️ Among TOP voters, 41.1% prefer Labour-led vs 21.3% National-led; Wong: “That doesn’t drive our decision making.” - 🎯 Takeaway: centrism as secrecy — progressive and centre-right environmental voters both asked to bank a blank cheque on who becomes PM. (Further sections paywalled.) [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=1885783&post%5Fid=207862566&isFreemail=true&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjA3ODYyNTY2LCJpYXQiOjE3ODQ2MDE4MTMsImV4cCI6MTc4NzE5MzgxMywiaXNzIjoicHViLTE4ODU3ODMiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.hO427hZuavOZkJKTVTntXjJ9sUHz%5F9RtX4iwwv94ZKY&ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/07/9fb280b1-f62c-42f0-81ae-0382072f676a_572x380.webp) ## 2\. Untouchable Domains *Chris Trotter — Substack* - ❓ Right activists echo left’s old line: “If you win and nothing changes – what’s the point?” Target: National as “the enemy within” (Pee Kay / Brash & Mitchell). - 🏦 Trotter’s history: post-Rogernomics National built a Treaty-centred Māori corporate domain — settlements, iwi/hapū structures, neo-tribal capitalism (Elizabeth Rata) to demobilise urban Māori workers. - 🪓 Plus ECA + welfare cuts: break unionised Māori solidarity; then speak of “renaissance” while feeding bludger/gang narratives — friendly Māori vs savage rebels updated. - 📜 Luxon never backed Seymour’s equal-citizenship Treaty Principles Bill as viable; Peters prefers quiet rewrite of Treaty-legislation over frontal Act-style assault (state lacks repressive depth for the revolt). - 🛠️ Three classic ways to kill rogue state projects: insert loyalists on boards; starve funding; legislate the domain away — soft hands still dominate National ranks. - 🎯 Takeaway: NZF/Act expected National to dismantle the bi-cultural elite bargain; three years on, the domain still looks largely untouchable. [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=4057098&post%5Fid=207850366&isFreemail=false&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjA3ODUwMzY2LCJpYXQiOjE3ODQ1OTE0MzEsImV4cCI6MTc4NzE4MzQzMSwiaXNzIjoicHViLTQwNTcwOTgiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.sGplLl9E7DgE72vj98LZYVJ944Tr5DWDWhQyq5EWB3I&ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/07/bf688e9f-ddfe-483c-b22e-3eb6fc098c12_1672x941.webp) ## 3\. Narrative Control: The Collapsing Authority of the State *Jacob Reynolds — Academy of Ideas* - 🧠 Elite job is no longer reform that wins votes — it is *narrative hegemony*: manage information because shaping the real world has been abandoned. - 🇬🇧 Examples: Whitehall’s RICU “don’t look back in anger” unit scripting victims/media after racially charged crimes; DCMS “prominence regime” for “trustworthy” news on social platforms in crises; US media framing Iryna Zarutska’s murder as a “right-wing firestorm.” - 🇫🇷 Parallel: French student Quentin Deranque murdered by Antifa — mainstream line often “far-right activist died after inciting confrontation.” - 📉 Error theory of the rulers: masses aren’t wrong, they’re misled (Musk, Russians, algorithms) — so speech control becomes “democracy’s better self.” - 🎯 Takeaway: Hollow Leviathan — failing state + existential dread of populism = ever more authoritarian narrative management; watchful optimism that revolt has already broken the spell. [Read More](https://www.academyofideas.uk/p/narrative-control-the-collapsing?ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/07/MV5BYmYyMDZhMDMtNTIxMy00NjkxLWEyYmQtYWRiNmNjOGVmMmVhXkEyXkFqcGdeQWFybm8@._V1_-1536x864.jpg) ## 4\. The Odyssey Has Transcended the Culture War *Maren Thom — spiked* - 🎬 Nolan’s *The Odyssey*: critical acclaim + \~$264m opening weekend — Hollywood still capable of epic ambition. - ⚔️ Left claims victory because black Helen / contested casting “didn’t sink” the film; right keeps complaining (modern dialogue, “too progressive”) after pre-judging it. - 🎭 Thom: quality is Nolan’s casting-for-type, not census politics — Damon as eternal-identity-lost hero; Nyong’o’s difference makes Helen-as-property instant on screen opposite bruiser Bernthal; Page as Sinon is meant to look wrong among warriors. - 📜 Neither “illustrate real Homer” traditionalism nor progressive correction — interpretation; diverse cast ≠ woke quota when faces serve meaning. - 🎯 Takeaway: culture-war arguments look small against IMAX epic sincerity — trust the finished film, not the casting spreadsheet. [Read More](https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/07/20/the-odyssey-has-transcended-the-culture-war/?ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/07/GettyImages-1143182497.webp) ## 5\. The Twilight of the Radical Net Zero Agenda *Alan Moran — The Spectator Australia* - 📘 Paul Kelly’s imminent *Twilight of Exceptionalism* frames Trump’s “climate con” as dominant in Australian politics since Morrison’s pre-Glasgow fold. - 💰 Barnaby Joyce/Canavan backed Net Zero after rural pork (Joyce claims $32bn) — Walpole’s “all these men have their price.” - 🏦 Investment-strike/diplomatic-ostracism scare sold the deal; Moran: profit still rules 649 coal plants planned globally; business peak bodies captured by subsidy-takers. - 🏛️ Treasury since Stone: 8 of 10 secretaries ALP/green-tainted; models “prove” fossil exit costs little — politicised advice, no alternative brief. - 📜 Constitution: energy is largely state territory; Commonwealth could have played delay-diplomacy and contingency on real cost breakthroughs. - 🎯 Takeaway: elites still double down (CEFC dairy-to-plantation example) while US/Argentina show exit ramps — will Australia get politicians free of wokery counsel? [Read More](https://www.spectator.com.au/2026/07/the-twilight-of-the-radical-net-zero-agenda/?ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/07/GettyImages-2286287019-1536x864.jpg) ## 6\. Andy Burnham’s Cringe Britannia *Tom Slater — spiked* - 🇬🇧 “Most boring coup”: Burnham in as PM, Starmer’s van north — summer makeover, not a defining crisis ouster. - 👔 Vibes reset (smart-casual vs donor suits; Radio 6 dad vs supply teacher) — politics still technocracy, multiculturalism, Net Zero piety over growth. - 🗣️ Downing St clichés: “circuit breaker… biggest changes in 40 years” without policies; end rough sleeping (failed as Manchester mayor); scrap digital ID but mind VPN ban; won’t lift oil/gas ban, just speed existing ones. - 🗳️ Zero personal mandate: Makerfield by-election only; unopposed Labour leadership; Parliament in recess till September. - 🎯 Takeaway: Cringe Britannia — more Smiths soundtrack than substance; ask soon what difference the coup made. [Read More](https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/07/20/andy-burnhams-cringe-britannia/?ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/07/GettyImages_558222601.webp) ## 7\. The Surprising Truth About Men and Multitasking *Patrick West — The Spectator Australia* - 🧪 Brunel / City St George’s study (Szameitat couple): women not better multitaskers — they just look less rude while doing it. - 📊 41 men / 37 women: similar performance on recipe, phone lists, matching, slideshow tasks; men failed to answer 28% of interrupt questions vs women’s 12%. - 👁️ Video judges rated men as making less effort (reverse halo) because they looked less alert — performance ≠ appearance of engagement. - 🗣️ West: confirms male taciturnity isn’t incompetence; pathologising stoicism as “toxic masculinity” misreads neutral/advantageous male norms (Paglia, Peterson). - 🎯 Takeaway: different and equal — one chatty, one silent, both get the jobs done; drop the lazy gender boast and the lazy household excuse. [Read More](https://www.spectator.com.au/2026/07/the-surprising-truth-about-men-and-multitasking/?ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/07/moorre4.jpg) ## 8\. CNN Analyst: Left-Wing Anarchists Behind Rising Political Violence *Pam Key — Breitbart (CNN clip)* - 📺 CNN LE contributor Steve Moore on *News Central*: more political violence than he’s seen in decades — not since the 1980s white-supremacist/Posse Comitatus wave. - ⬅️ Now the driver is “the left-wing, the anarchists, and the anti-government people” — “highest I’ve ever seen,” linked to lost civility over differences. - 🎆 Same segment: DHS notes \~8:20 a.m. anti-ICE rioter fireworks outside 26 Federal Plaza, bystander grazed, alleged gasoline on entrance stairs set alight. - 🎯 Takeaway: even network LE talent now names left anarchist energy as the live trend line — watch the streets and the spin. [Read More](https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2026/07/20/cnn-law-enforcement-analyst-left-wing-anarchists-behind-increasing-political-violence/?ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/07/4d61a349-825b-47d0-addf-4ae8c7832150_1024x683.webp) ## 9\. Iran’s Killing Machine Is Operating in Plain Sight *Masih Alinejad — The Free Press* - 🕊️ 18-year-old Erfan Esfandiari hanged — parents’ only child; crime reported as opening his door to protesters fleeing security in the January 2026 uprising. - 🚪 Same Sunday: 23-year-old Afghan refugee Gol-Mohammad Mohammadi hanged for the same compassion; show trials \~1 hour × 3, no independent lawyer. - 📋 Alikhani Square case: 59 arrested; 12 death sentences; both hanged after quarantine transfer — 10 more likely imminent. - ♟️ Kasparov: tragic that executions became “norm… accepted… by the Free World”; Trump urged stop during war — regime bought time for mass arrests → mass hangings. - 🎯 Takeaway: while diplomats chase ceasefires, Tehran’s quiet youth-execution campaign runs on distraction. (Full essay paywalled after lede.) [Read More](https://www.thefp.com/p/irans-killing-machine-is-operating?ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/07/hq720.jpg) ## 10\. The Charlie Kirk Killing and America’s Forgotten History of Left-Wing Terror *Coleman Hughes interviews Noah Rothman — The Free Press / Conversations with Coleman* - 📚 Rothman’s new book *Blood & Progress*: left-wing political violence in America is long, patterned, and largely memory-holed. - 🔫 Framing via Charlie Kirk’s killing: the conventional “violence is mostly right-wing” story is inaccurate and un-reckoned-with. - 🎙️ Hughes/Rothman hour: not random lone wolves only — a tradition that needs honest inventory, not selective amnesia. - 🎯 Takeaway: if you only police one direction of terror, you misread the present. (Podcast/article largely paywalled — free lede sets the thesis.) [Read More](https://www.thefp.com/p/the-charlie-kirk-killing-and-americas?ref=goodoil.news) --- ## What our members are saying about Ten@10 **Elizabeth** These articles are compulsory reading for me and the perfect addition to the usual list of Goodoil items! **Lynne** Absolutely brilliant to receive these current and thought provoking articles. **Jonathan** Just wanted to let you know that I’m loving this new 10@10\. Much appreciated from someone who chooses to read/watch almost NO mainstream media. **Murray** Cam, relish your output as the newspaper in Christchurch is so intent on non news. Thankyou **Fred** Thanks for Ten @ Ten, really enjoy reading it.Keep it up. All the best, keep healthy. **Jocko** Wonderful info not otherwise available in NZ. More power to your elbow! Thanks.