> ## 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 - 2026/148 - URL: https://goodoil.news/your-daily-ten-10-2026-148/ - Published: 2026-08-13T22:00:35.000Z - Updated: 2026-08-13T22:00:34.000Z - 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 2026/148 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/2026/08/d8d3cf9b-2ca5-4042-ae24-80e456c432b0_767x431.webp) ## 1\. Democracy Briefing: Anatomy of a failed coup *Bryce Edwards — The Democracy Project* - 🧭 A day after Christopher Luxon survived another push to remove him, Edwards stitches competing accounts (Hehir, O’Brien, Moir, Coughlan, Harman, Lynch and others) into a basic timeline of National’s three-hour caucus crisis. - 📞 Reporting holds that Chris Penk had been testing support for an **Erica Stanford–Chris Penk** ticket (Stanford leader, Penk deputy), while Chris Bishop’s name was also in the mix — before anyone had locked numbers. - 📰 Someone spoke to the *Herald*; the story went public Monday night, Luxon recalled MPs to Wellington, and a quiet numbers exercise became an emergency confidence fight. - 📉 Numbers reportedly firmed against Luxon Tuesday afternoon, then peeled back by evening as Stanford and Bishop competed rather than combined; Luxon put his own leadership to a confidence vote before any alternative solidified. - 🧱 Free portion ends with the core problem: appetite for change without a majority for any particular replacement — and the paywall cuts mid-analysis. - 🎯 Takeaway: the “coup” failed less because Luxon was loved than because plotters leaked early, couldn’t unite on a candidate, and let the PM force the vote first. [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=1885783&post%5Fid=210973547&isFreemail=false&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjEwOTczNTQ3LCJpYXQiOjE3ODY1Nzg5ODEsImV4cCI6MTc4OTE3MDk4MSwiaXNzIjoicHViLTE4ODU3ODMiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.aYvgkzKJUEBqdeFZNF5Y28IeZVJpU5jlrLYU3ybErdo&ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/08/4JQT4W0_260402_Cabinet_Reshuffle_6_jpg.webp) ## 2\. National's Bad (Really Bad) Day *Peter Allan Williams — Peter’s Substack* - 💥 Williams calls 12 August 2026 one of National’s darkest days: a poorly performing PM, bungled leadership move, and senior egos put ahead of the country. - 🎤 He revisits Luxon’s long communications failures — from a flustered Wanaka 100-days answer in 2023 to later brain fades on small business, MMP, TOP, and dismissing the Treaty Principles Bill. - 🧮 Penk’s numbers exercise either couldn’t count or was leaked after calls; Stanford and Bishop couldn’t yield so one clear alternative never emerged. - 🚪 Losing Penk from portfolios *and* as a candidate means another Kaipara ki Mahurangi selection distraction; National’s poll position (1News \~29%) already implies list MPs under threat. - ⚠️ He frets Opportunity polling \~8% twice in two weeks while Act rises and NZ First slips on bank/rugby stunts and insults. - 🎯 Takeaway: Luxon stared the caucus down again — but the damage deepens the path to relying on coalition partners, not National strength. [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=1788933&post%5Fid=210880308&isFreemail=true&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjEwODgwMzA4LCJpYXQiOjE3ODY1MzA4MTEsImV4cCI6MTc4OTEyMjgxMSwiaXNzIjoicHViLTE3ODg5MzMiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.qlDqB2C-UtMOAS%5F0EAZSg8138Kh%5FtaLjn-dtVe1MD0o&ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/08/8cf6489e-fc0f-4f31-a6ac-0f635e8efd7c_1394x1642.webp) ## 3\. Chris Penk took the fall, but here’s what I know. *Ani O’Brien — Thought Crimes* - ⏱️ In one day Penk went from Cabinet (Defence, Building, Veterans, Space, GCSB/NZSIS and more), list rank 14, to stripped of every portfolio after Luxon’s confidence win — then announced he won’t contest November. - 🧩 O’Brien says the “Penk for PM” story never stacked up; her sourcing is that he was canvassing a **Stanford leader / Penk deputy** ticket, still at early soundings. - 🗣️ “Then somebody talked” — a leak to media forced declarations before numbers were locked; Luxon forced confidence first so no vacancy and no alternative ballot followed. - 🏛️ PMO line to media: Penk challenged for himself; neither Stanford nor Bishop “officially” challenged — while O’Brien’s sources say Penk was stalking-horse, not the caucus challenger, and someone else did challenge (still being corroborated). - 💔 She accepts Luxon had to make an example, but mourns losing a clever, good-faith conservative workhorse over a leaked, half-formed move. - 🎯 Takeaway: the public “Penk vanity tilt” narrative is the tidy story; the messier one is a deputy ticket aborted by leak, ego, and PM’s speed. [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=3921014&post%5Fid=210874687&utm%5Fsource=post-email-title&utm%5Fcampaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjEwODc0Njg3LCJpYXQiOjE3ODY1MzA4MjIsImV4cCI6MTc4OTEyMjgyMiwiaXNzIjoicHViLTM5MjEwMTQiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.Z5DZv6zLBA1VKjcLfWQLKz85PgwK-5lcggGeIrnabVc) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/08/photo-1587283159200-753a6bb337dd.jpeg) ## 4\. Hang in there, Chris Penk! *Liam Hehir — The Blue Review* - 🐐 Hehir had said there would have to be bloodletting after the ructions; he now regrets the framing because the scapegoat is personal friend Chris Penk. - 🩸 Portfolio strip (Defence, spies, Building & Construction etc.) he treats as fair politics — head above the parapet, head gets shot at — but not as grounds to quit public life. - 🐴 Whether or not Penk was meant as stalking horse for “real” contenders, that is how it played: designated patsy drawing fire while bigger names stayed careful. - 🛡️ Hehir praises Penk as a principled conservative who isn’t awkward or abrasive, a diligent Building minister, and a rare Defence minister with military experience. - 🗳️ National heads to 7 November with a leader who’s won two confidence votes he shouldn’t have needed, a cautious front bench, and one fewer conservative of conviction in Cabinet. - 🎯 Takeaway: take the licks for the contest — but don’t write Penk out of politics over a half-cocked crisis he didn’t solely own. [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=478996&post%5Fid=210855847&isFreemail=false&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjEwODU1ODQ3LCJpYXQiOjE3ODY1MTI5NDEsImV4cCI6MTc4OTEwNDk0MSwiaXNzIjoicHViLTQ3ODk5NiIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.Q873KYSFgsYDqwMvff4zZFRtrehTUEkcXEQNYEJZMPg&ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/08/8785efb4-582c-4583-8568-ee0185b72010_865x727.webp) ## 5\. CYCLIST COMMANDEERS THE COURT *John McLean — John’s Substack* - 🚴 McLean savages a *Post* feature lauding Cycle Wellington’s Patrick Morgan for dragging Better Wellington president Paul Heffernan through court under the Harmful Digital Communications Act. - 💬 The offending anonymous X post on Better Wellington’s page: Morgan’s cycle lobby “would have to be the first against the wall when a decent council” got in — deleted when the account was deactivated in Nov 2025. - 🧠 He argues Morgan’s “credible death threat” framing is absurd hyperbole for political rhetoric about ditching cycle-lane capture, and that Netsafe process / proof looked shambolic (Heffernan says he never heard from Netsafe). - ⚖️ Judge didn’t order an apology (to avoid re-amplifying the comment); Heffernan apologised anyway and Morgan rejected it — McLean’s rule: never apologise to bad-faith wokesters. - 📜 Broader charge: HDC Act, meant for real bullying harms, is being weaponised against robust debate (Portia Mao, MFAT/Israel Institute rows, Rex Landy, etc.) and should be scrapped. - 🎯 Takeaway: hurty words about cycle lobbies are not a national-security event — they’re free speech being lawyered into silence. [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=1709690&post%5Fid=210932227&isFreemail=true&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjEwOTMyMjI3LCJpYXQiOjE3ODY1NTgyODksImV4cCI6MTc4OTE1MDI4OSwiaXNzIjoicHViLTE3MDk2OTAiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.1vchoMzY9XYa%5FXnzBkSRjOW6jF99ylO4mNOFQAzonSw&ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/08/emPicture-from-YouTube.em_-1536x864.png) ## 6\. No, the far right is not a deadlier threat than Islamism *Charlotte Littlewood — spiked* - 📊 New UK Prevent figures again show extreme-right referrals outnumbering Islamist ones (\~8% Islamist) — and Littlewood, a former Prevent practitioner, says that maps the *referral machine*, not the real threat. - 🏫 Schools drove 34% of referrals; ages 11–15 were 36% of referrals and 37% of Channel cases. Holiday dips track kids leaving school, not summer peace. - 🛡️ MI5 still puts \~¾ of CT caseload on Islamist terror; Contest attributes \~67% of attacks since 2018 to Islamism vs \~22% extreme right. - 👀 Islamist cases peak older (31–40); schools are worse at spotting politicised religion, face intimidation/white-guilt chill, and miss antisemitism as its own cross-cutting hatred. - 📈 Record 10,293 referrals (+39%) partly reflect post-Southport awareness; “fascination with extreme violence” finally getting attention after Rudakubana’s triple closed referrals. - 🎯 Takeaway: Prevent stats are a vulnerability map of schools and forms — not proof the far right outranks Islamism as Britain’s deadlier terror threat. [Read More](https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/08/12/no-the-far-right-is-not-a-deadlier-threat-than-islamism/?ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/08/liacono_15_aug_post.webp) ## 7\. The Greta Thunberg of Cambridge *Rocco Loiacono — The Spectator Australia* - 🎓 Loiacono pairs Claudine Gay’s Harvard plagiarism fall with Cambridge’s Jason Arday scandal as DEI ends-justify-means disasters. - 🏅 Arday was hired (May 2023) as a sociology/education professor and hyped as overcoming autism, late literacy, and adversity — boss Hilary Cremin called his research “the best in the world.” - 📄 UK *Telegraph* analysis found \~188 thesis passages identical/very similar to another student’s 2009 thesis; Arday blamed autism/mimicry and cited a pre-viva brain tumour — claims that drew sharp pushback. - 📚 Other disputed boasts (marathons, *Seven Up* appearance before he was born, huge charity sums, an unfindable book) met racism/ableism shields; a *Times* journalist even drew Met interest for probing him. - 🧯 Arday resigned; Loiacono (with Dominic Green) puts heavier blame on supervisors, referees, and hire committees who skipped due diligence for the DEI narrative — “Greta”-style instrumentalisation. - 🎯 Takeaway: when identity storyline outruns verification, elite universities don’t just hire a fraud risk — they torch their own standards. [Read More](https://www.spectator.com.au/2026/08/the-greta-thunberg-of-cambridge/?ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/08/GettyImages-2288868428.webp) ## 8\. The curious case of the wrong feelings *Damien Costas — The Spectator Australia* - 😤 Costas on One Nation’s rise: elites spent years saying lived experience and feelings matter — until voters feel angry about housing, immigration, cohesion, and cost of living. - 🔁 Hanson voters get coded as fearful/prejudiced/irrational; the same empathy framework used for favoured groups flips to “correction” mode for them. - 🧠 Feelings aren’t the opposite of thought — they’re often where thought starts when promises diverge from daily reality. - 🌍 He links the pattern to Brexit, Trump, Reform UK and other Western revolts: decisions without consent, concerns dismissed, frustration explained away rather than heard. - 🎤 Establishment keeps asking what One Nation voters are “really” saying; Hanson keeps asking why they’re angry — and politics rewards people who ask the forbidden questions. - 🎯 Takeaway: One Nation is what happens when millions hold the feelings-industrial complex to its own standard. [Read More](https://www.spectator.com.au/2026/08/the-curious-case-of-the-wrong-feelings/?ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/08/b6978b63-a9c8-49cd-8ee2-2685ae2deb53_2100x1182.webp) ## 9\. How My Generation Became Antisemitic *Leo Lewis — The Free Press* - 🎒 High-schooler Leo Lewis warns adults: antisemitism among Gen Z peers is worse than they think — Free Press adapts/expands his Substack essay after covering school failures elsewhere. - ➡️ He flags a newer, mainly **right-wing** youth strand less understood than left campus hatred, calcifying via memes into an insurgent vibe among young men. - 🔤 Central vector: reclaiming/weaponising “goy” — from Hebrew for non-Jew into slang implying Jews treat outsiders as cattle; “goy slave,” “goyslop,” viral TikToks about kosher vs deliberately unhealthy food for control. - 📱 The slang migrates into everyday teen talk (even homework/teachers) among kids who often don’t know the word’s origin — normalisation by meme, not seminar. - 🧱 Free Press paywall cuts the full “why it flourished / what to do” sections after the lede diagnosis. - 🎯 Takeaway: if you only watch progressive campus antisemitism, you’re missing a parallel right-meme pipeline recruiting boys in plain sight. [Read More](https://www.thefp.com/p/gen-z-rising-antisemitism?ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/08/2395edbf-450a-4b6d-86b1-a789600853c0_1353x761.webp) ## 10\. I Went No Contact with My Parents. I Regret It. *Christina Buttons — The Free Press* - 💔 Buttons recounts cutting off her parents at 19 (2008) for five years after a therapist branded them “toxic”/“coercive” while she was suicidal — a simple root-cause story she now deeply regrets. - 📬 As editor sorting *Tough Love with Abigail Shrier* letters, she sees flood of parents devastated by adult kids who went “no contact,” often after therapeutic framing of normal conflict as abuse. - 📈 \~10% of the US population estranged from a parent or child; WSJ-noted trend of therapists encouraging cut-offs as “self-care.” - 🗣️ Therapeutic language now scripts family life: trauma, boundaries, toxicity — sometimes fitting real danger, often over-applied to imperfect but loving parents. - 🧱 Full personal reckoning sits behind Free Press paywall after the setup and thesis. - 🎯 Takeaway: before you let a therapist help you amputate family, remember some of us already did — and spent years wishing we hadn’t. [Read More](https://substack.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.DZ8PPHj3ZyTxc6GOytS%5F5xF0Ei12b3QnvoRamRWyZjU?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\. 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