> ## 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 - 2026/132 - URL: https://goodoil.news/your-daily-ten-10-2026-132/ - Published: 2026-07-22T22:00:08.000Z - Updated: 2026-07-22T22:00:08.000Z - 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 2026/132 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/ea279064-6a63-4964-9dd9-df67285c7b44_780x652.webp) ## 1\. The Supermarket Break-Up Is Back *Bryce Edwards — The Democracy Project* - 🛒 Nicola Willis is seriously examining structural separation — including forcing Foodstuffs to split Pak’nSave and New World (“banner split”). - 📊 “Clear evidence” groceries are less competitive than peer countries; cost/how/whether lower prices still being worked through — no Cabinet decision yet; results before end of term. - 🎯 Essentially Winston Peters’ April idea; Labour now opposes forced banner sales; National minister taking it seriously for the first time in election year. - 🌍 Red-carpet failure: Aldi/Lidl declined search; Tesco nowhere; zero fast-track applicants; 21 target firms across 10 countries, no entrant confirmed. - 🧱 Willis: entrants see “very powerful duopoly… significant market power” — “big ask… not get squashed”; Chetwin: if invitation were the answer, “it would have worked by now.” - 📐 Crampton maps: 13 areas cap supermarket numbers; floor-area caps; “vitality and viability” tests — planner market segmentation that would be illegal if retailers did it by handshake. - 📈 Quin (Foodstuffs): \~77% combined share, “competition from every direction”; ComCom: 82%, essentially flat five years. (Further sections paywalled.) [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=1885783&post%5Fid=208011420&isFreemail=true&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjA4MDExNDIwLCJpYXQiOjE3ODQ2OTg4MTcsImV4cCI6MTc4NzI5MDgxNywiaXNzIjoicHViLTE4ODU3ODMiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.RNOJnllJs6APty%5Fe95Y6vvL2zsvogeGuDFcmPrlhnr0&ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/07/2a83b2b9-c76f-4108-ad61-90f8acb2d049_3146x1922.webp) ## 2\. Can Labour Fight Off the Populist Challenge? *Grant Duncan — Politics Happens* - 📺 Hipkins on Tova, three ex-Labour figures to NZ First: Winston can rename the party “Labour’s Seconds” — witty dismissal; Nash was sacked in 2023 anyway. - ❓ Real question: does Labour have a substantial answer to NZ First poaching blue-collar Labour voters? - 📢 Peters’ method: attack “globalists/neoliberals,” bold pledges (50% mining royalties home; buy back BNZ) knowing coalition talks can park promises. - ⚖️ Labour/National stuck cautious for “sensible middle” scrutiny; left angry at “the system,” Hipkins only tinkers. - 🔥 Loudest June 26 conference clap: “neo-liberal trickle-down economics is a hoax” / smaller government ≠ more freedom — Duncan asks what Hipkins actually proposes next. (Full answer paywalled.) [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=1343614&post%5Fid=207841325&isFreemail=true&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjA3ODQxMzI1LCJpYXQiOjE3ODQ2NTcyNTgsImV4cCI6MTc4NzI0OTI1OCwiaXNzIjoicHViLTEzNDM2MTQiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.79LBrd32Ph5jhK1EGrlT-dxAb9cLUDQx64hPP42LYoc&ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/07/673b9dca3044aa879622c9224051aaa5.jpg) ## 3\. Canberra’s $80,000 Ardern ‘Girl-Power’ Summit Splurge *Caroline Di Russo — Sky News Australia* - 💸 Australian Public Service >$80k on Women Unlimited Leadership Summit starring Jacinda Ardern — VIP tickets $4,499 (about a month’s average mortgage). - 🏛️ Bill: ATO $10,029; Defence $13,371; IGIS $13,371; DCCEEW $15,385; Australian Signals Directorate top waste at $28,975. - 🎤 Theme: “Courage to Lead Differently” / memoir *A Different Kind of Power* — scrap “thick skin” and iron fist; Di Russo: iron fist with a smile is still an iron fist; “single source of the truth” still Stalinesque. - 🎯 Takeaway: serious agencies learning “different kind of power” from COVID-era speech-control PM while households bleed — culture of entitlement, not value. [Read More](https://www.skynews.com.au/insights-and-analysis/canberras-80000-splurge-on-jacinda-ardern-girlpower-summit-a-sickening-display-of-government-waste-and-self-indulgence/news-story/9c8f697458286a2b9ce21506bf536828?ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/07/23ae2f6e3dc07071a66e95fdcad2669ba26bf5dc-1600x960.jpg) ## 4\. Did Councils Ban New Supermarkets? *Eric Crampton — Point of Order / NZ Initiative* - 🗺️ Five years after urging ComCom to check zoning, Initiative maps (Claude Fable + human/adversarial review) live at supermarketzoning.nzinitiative.org.nz — Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin. - 🚫 \~250 zones / nine plans: downtown “permitted” but land too dear; outer areas thinner; **13 areas cap supermarket numbers**; floor-area caps; prove no harm to incumbents’ “vitality and viability.” - ⚖️ Same geographic segmentation by retailers = court; planners do it with impunity; complexity needs local “fixers” — barrier even for incumbents. - 🎯 Fast-track helps; real fix is planning that treats competition as a benefit. ComCom should check town planning before more “competition” theatre. [Read More](https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/2026/07/22/is-the-reason-we-dont-have-enough-supermarket-competition-because-councils-have-banned-new-ones/?ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/07/mushroom-cloud-wikimedia-1-640x480.jpg) ## 5\. Japan’s Defence Minister: Time to Rethink Nuclear Weapons *Frances Martel — Breitbart* - ☢️ Japanese Defence Minister Koizumi Shinjiro publicly said Japan must debate whether to pursue nuclear weapons — firestorm across the region and at home. - 🏷️ Story framed against China threat and PM Takaichi Sanae’s security era; breaks long taboo of the only A-bombed nation. - 🎯 Takeaway: even Japan’s defence chief is putting nuclear options on the open agenda. (Full Breitbart body paywalled in capture — lede/metadata confirmed.) [Read More](https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2026/07/21/japans-defense-minister-says-its-time-to-rethink-nuclear-weapons/?ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/07/2579a00d-8425-4965-985b-5c028f895606_2100x1182-1.jpg) ## 6\. Is History Dead? *The Editors (responses to Ferguson & Levin) — The Free Press* - 📚 Niall Ferguson + AI researcher John-Clark Levin: AI + social media overwhelm institutions that preserved historical truth; antisemitic rhetoric → genocidal reality lesson failing; Ferguson: “I have failed utterly.” - 🛡️ Victor Davis Hanson: dangers real, history not dead — half-educated pseudo-history supercharged, but silence of academics lets Darryl Cooper-types win; 1619 Project lived too long for same reason; fight online with honest podcasts/courses. - 🕯️ Deborah Lipstadt and others (BHL, Shapiro…) weigh “new age of Holocaust denial” — full symposium largely paywalled after Hanson open. - 🎯 Takeaway: anti-history spreads like cancer unless historians leave the faculty lounge and contest the feed. [Read More](https://www.thefp.com/p/is-history-dead-holocaust-historians?ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/07/7b14b8_270ce62020ea488589aa57f250bd27f2-mv2.jpg) ## 7\. Can Universities Recover Their Mojo in the AI Age? *John Raine — Brash & Mitchell* - 🎓 NZ framed as extreme CSJ/DEI case; objectors silenced, made redundant, or quit; Treaty Principles still mandatory in eng/med/nursing/law/teaching despite coalition free-speech efforts. - 🤖 AI + admin bloat (non-academic:academic \~1.5:1 vs \~0.8 offshore) crunch finances; credentialled AI micro-credentials will steal commodity degrees. - 🧪 Uni edge: face-to-face critical thinking, labs/clinics/studios, rigorous oral/written assessment — Bologna-style master-and-student, not avatar-only delivery. - 📉 Fix path: rebuild MoE culturally neutral; capped enrolments toward excellence + trades; cut non-academic ratio toward 0.9 with AI admin; optional Māori history, no decolonisation activism in science curriculum. - 🎯 Takeaway: move into AI age without abandoning autonomous, politically independent truth-seeking (Bologna 1988). [Read More](https://www.brashandmitchell.com/post/john-raine-can-universities-recover-their-mojo-in-the-ai-age?ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/07/gY1mv2cK2f7O-1024x576.webp) ## 8\. Burnham Scrapped Digital ID. His Internet Plans Say Otherwise *Cam Wakefield — Reclaim The Net* - 🚪 Applause for killing Starmer’s adult digital ID (£1.8bn OBR) — money to cost of living — before anyone checked what survived. - 📜 20-year trail: 2005–06 ID Cards Bill (“major breakthrough”; still “clear case”); 2008 Culture Sec plan (TV-style web decency, age certs, takedown clocks — Ofcom then said unworkable); 2016 Snoopers’ Charter after packaging tweaks. - 🧒 Keeps online age-verification; backs under-16 social media curbs; team: digital ID checks to *post* on social media still on; Lucy Powell purdah-for-platforms; pressure to expand OSA into “legal but harmful.” - 🎭 Pattern: object to packaging, vote the power through; drop BritCard, build the speech gate, sell as retreat. - 🎯 Takeaway: privacy win is tactical; the enforcement machine grows. (Also notes Hope Not Hate strategist orbit — see item 10.) [Read More](https://reclaimthenet.org/andy-burnham-scrapped-digital-id-his-internet-plans-say-otherwise?ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/07/0bc08cd6-b4c5-4b04-865e-d1e9b6aad758_900x506.webp) ## 9\. The Odyssey Movie and How the Culture War Broke Everybody’s Brain *Konstantin Kisin — Substack* - 🎬 Nolan *Odyssey* “debate” is mostly pre-loaded culture-war scripts: Musk “desecrated”; representation side claims triumph (Pride + Greeks meme). - ⚔️ Page as Sinon: looks frail on paper, but minor role, no “trans men are men” lecture, plays a small male part well — suspension of disbelief holds. - 👑 Nyong’o as Helen/Clytemnestra: more clearly diversity-over-immersion; historically educated viewers will notice; still solid acting; Helen/Clytemnestra important but minor — rest of film “looks like ancient Greece.” - 🎬 Side travesty: Clytemnestra as Helen’s twin (Faramir-level rewrite energy). - 🎯 Takeaway: politics of casting says more about us than about Nolan — brains broken enough that art is scored like a team sport. (Rest of essay paywalled.) [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=746128&post%5Fid=207962313&isFreemail=true&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjA3OTYyMzEzLCJpYXQiOjE3ODQ2NjMxNDAsImV4cCI6MTc4NzI1NTE0MCwiaXNzIjoicHViLTc0NjEyOCIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.lcBXpPujq3Am6cyKC9easDpBlMB4-xDQNRlLRXZL9cM&ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/07/CEO.png) ## 10\. Burnham’s Hope Not Hate Premiership Is Destined for Disaster *Hugo Timms — spiked* - 🗑️ New No10 strategy chief Matthew McGregor deleted X days before start — opponents kept receipts: 2016 Farage “racist piece of shit”; Reeves rules “too tight”; Ofcom should muzzle GB News hosts. - 🏴 2018–21 head of campaigns/strategy at Hope Not Hate — “State of Hate” bone-pointing at Rees-Mogg, Duncan Smith, Cates; deleted Widdecombe “dangerous and divisive” piece after her murder. - ⚖️ Reprieve board: strip dual-national citizenship powers (ISIS-bride clients); 38 Degrees CEO: kill Starmer welfare reform, put Gaza first on Trump agenda. - 🎯 Takeaway: brains of the operation from activist blob = less speech, weaker borders, more welfarism, more Israel-obsession — same, only worse (Houellebecq). [Read More](https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/07/20/burnhams-hope-not-hate-premiership-is-destined-for-disaster/?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.