> ## 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 - 2026/196 - URL: https://goodoil.news/your-daily-ten-10-2026-196/ - Published: 2026-10-21T21:00:00.000Z - Updated: 2026-10-21T20:59:59.000Z - Description: 10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You - Author: Cam Slater - Tags: Ten@10, NZ Politics, Free Speech, Media, Culture, Economy **This is edition 2026/196 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/2026/10/01-ten196.png) ## 1\. Democracy Briefing: Te Pāti Māori’s dysfunction is a gift to the right *Bryce Edwards - The Democracy Project* - 🗳️ Edwards says Te Pāti Māori’s chaotic campaign keeps handing National free ammunition against a Labour-led government. - 📊 National is up four to 32 in the 1News-Verian poll. Te Pāti Māori is under 1% there. - 🐕 It started with Oriini Kaipara’s line: “you see Mongrel Mob, I see whānau.” Luxon has made the most of it. - 😂 Kiri Tamihere-Waititi mocked Hipkins: “It puts old Chippy under pressure and he’s fallen for it”. Hipkins then had to rule the Greens and Te Pāti Māori out of police and corrections. - 📜 Their Tiriti Commission bottom line would let it stop Cabinet decisions. Audrey Young: “That’s not only a coalition killer, it will make it less likely the parties of the left are elected.” - 🌿 A Whakaata Māori-Curia poll has the Greens’ Hūhana Lyndon leading in Te Tai Tokerau. The candidate-vote-only plan may be backfiring. - 💸 Māori voters rank cost of living way ahead of Te Tiriti. The party is campaigning on the wrong thing. - 🔚 Edwards: “Te Pāti Māori’s problems become problems for the whole left.” If the right scrapes back on 7 November, this will be part of why. [Read More](https://www.democracyproject.org.nz/p/democracy-briefing-te-pati-maoris?ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/10/02-ten196.jpg) ## 2\. Chippy Don’t Lose That Number. *Chris Trotter - Bowalley Road* - 🧩 Trotter asks why nobody can call this election. His answer: National and Labour are both defending a status quo that doesn’t work for most people. - 🙄 “Better starts now.” is Labour’s slogan. Trotter says it would have been a good one fifty years ago. - 🍯 He says Labour’s habit of lowering expectations is “Jam yesterday and jam tomorrow, but never jam today”. - 🧮 The left’s maths: “17% + 28% = 45% which is not enough to claim victory.” - 🟢 So the left needs Opportunity, on 8% in the latest 1News-Verian poll. Trotter says that’s no natural fit. - 🔧 His read on Qiulae Wong’s lot: “Opportunity does not want to demolish the status quo, Opportunity wants to renovate it.” - 📋 And Wong wasn’t elected by members. “She answered an ad and sailed through the job interview.” - 📞 Trotter reckons Hipkins has her number and Bishop probably gave her his. Luxon hasn’t rung. That may cost him. [Read More](https://goodoil.news/chippy-dont-lose-that-number/) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/10/03-ten196.png) ## 3\. RODNEY HIDE: Two votes, one brain *Rodney Hide - Brash and Mitchell* - 🗳️ Hide’s pitch is simple: “You have two votes. Make them count.” - 🏆 He knows. In 2005 Epsom voters gave him the seat and kept Richard Worth on National’s list. ACT survived. - 📉 On his own poll average, National wins about 35 electorates but earns only 34 seats. No list MPs at all. - 🙈 Roughly 800,000 National party votes would add not one National MP. - 🤝 So he wants ACT to tell Epsom to back Paul Goldsmith and Tamaki to back Mahesh Muralidhar. ACT loses nothing. National gains two. - ➕ He says if two voters in every hundred shift their party vote from National to ACT and NZ First, the centre right gets 64 seats in a Parliament of 127. - 🧠 His line: “That is strategic voting. It is not a trick. It is reading the rules.” - 🎯 The bottom line: “Electorate vote National. In every electorate. And Party Vote ACT or New Zealand First depending on your preference.” [Read More](https://www.brashandmitchell.com/post/rodney-hide-two-votes-one-brain?ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/10/04-ten196.jpg) ## 4\. RICHARD PREBBLE: What can we read into the TVNZ poll? *Richard Prebble - Brash and Mitchell* - 📊 Prebble says the TVNZ-Verian poll has a good record, with one catch. It keeps misjudging the minor parties. - 🎲 His pick to miss the 5% line is TOP. Its base is young men, “notoriously unreliable voters.” - 💀 On Labour: “Labour’s 27% is disastrous.” Hipkins’ own numbers are no better. - 🔗 He thinks Labour is collateral damage from the Greens’ association with gangs. - 🔄 National up four to 32 matters. Voters switching from Labour to National matters more. - 🤯 ACT on 11 and NZ First on 8 are both above their 2023 results. For junior coalition partners under MMP, he calls that “extraordinary.” - 📈 In April, 52% expected the economy to worsen. Now 43% expect it to improve. - ⏱️ He finishes: “Has National timed its run just right?” [Read More](https://www.brashandmitchell.com/post/richard-prebble-what-can-we-read-into-the-tvnz-poll?ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/10/05-ten196.png) ## 5\. Labour’s Online Policy *David Harvey - A Halfling’s View* - 📢 Retired judge David Harvey predicted Labour would come up with an interventionist online policy. Now it has. - 🐴 Media spokesman Reuben Davidson’s plan wraps it all in child safety. Harvey calls it a Trojan Horse. - 👮 Labour would set up an independent digital regulator with powers to enforce safety standards and act against platforms that break the rules. - ⚖️ Harvey points out the Harmful Digital Communications Act already deals with harm, after it happens. - 🚫 Labour’s own words: “The aim is to prevent harm in the first place, rather than leaving people to deal with the consequences.” Harvey says that’s prior restraint. - 📺 Labour would keep the Broadcasting Standards Authority and possibly stretch it over online content. That puts The Platform and Reality Check Radio in the gun. - 💰 It would also revive the Fair Digital News Bargaining Bill. Harvey bets Stuff bends the knee first. - 🏰 He says control of the internet is the Holy Grail for governments. Labour is knocking at the castle gate. [Read More](https://djhdcj.substack.com/p/labours-online-policy) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/10/06-ten196.jpg) ## 6\. Voter suppression? Give me a break. *Liam Hehir - The Blue Review* - 🇺🇸 Hehir says our media love importing American rows, whether they fit here or not. - 🗓️ The latest is calling the 13-day enrolment deadline, 25 October this election, “voter suppression”. - 🧾 Election-day enrolment only arrived in 2020, on a 63 to 57 party-line vote. - 🐢 In 2023 the Auditor-General found 454,000 people enrolled in the final fortnight, and the count nearly buckled. - ⏳ The review said “A final quality assurance check that would usually be completed over two days had to be completed within hours.” - 🇬🇧 The UK closes registration twelve working days out. Nobody calls that a rigged election. - 🎯 Hehir: “If an enrolment deadline applying uniformly across the whole country is voter suppression, then there are very few free elections going on in the world.” - 🔥 He calls the label “irresponsible and corrosive”. Fair call. [Read More](https://thebluereview.substack.com/p/voter-suppression-give-me-a-break) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/10/07-ten196.png) ## 7\. RODNEY HIDE: I asked AI to find Rawiri Waititi's worldview *Rodney Hide - Brash and Mitchell* - 🤖 Hide set his AI research assistant on Rawiri Waititi’s speeches, bills and votes, with every quote sourced. - 🪢 The maiden speech set the frame. He pulled off his tie to “remove the colonial noose around my neck so that I may sing my song.” - 🏛️ The report finds colonisation is his answer to almost everything. Even Māori who disagree: “colonisation has done its job on our people, a bloody damn good job.” - 👢 Thrown out for no tie, for hakas, suspended for 21 days in June 2025\. He called the Privileges Committee a “kangaroo court”. - 🍒 At a party conference he joked about slipping karaka berries into Seymour’s water: “re-indigenise yourself with some native seeds.” - 💰 On money he’s a redistributor. His bill to take GST off food got only his own party’s votes. - ⛪ He is a Ringatū minister. That faith was founded by Te Kooti, whose men killed dozens of civilians, Māori and Pākehā, at Matawhero in 1868. - 😳 Hide used to see Waititi as performative theatre. “That is no longer the case for me.” [Read More](https://www.brashandmitchell.com/post/rodney-hide-i-asked-ai-to-find-rawiri-waititi-s-worldview?ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/10/08-ten196.png) ## 8\. Innovators and Fakers *Jeffrey A. Tucker - The Epoch Times* - 🚀 Tucker watched Tesla’s new Roadster lift off and land at its Waco launch. He calls it “utterly astounding”. - 🎬 The next day he saw “You Can See Everything,” the new documentary on Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes. - 🩸 Holmes promised hundreds of tests from one drop of blood. There was no peer review behind any of it. - 💵 Theranos hit a $9 billion valuation on vibes and PR. Tucker says “It all happened based on vibes, public relations, and nothing more.” - 🤷 He has little sympathy for the investors: “Their losses are their losses.” - 💉 Then the knife. He argues the drug giants behind the mRNA shots face no consequences while Holmes sits in prison. - ⚖️ His line: “The wrong people are going to prison for medical fraud.” [Read More](https://lists.theepochtimes.com/archive/3Y3Cu0eXTq/5kdG8QBtO/0L9T5fG50Ho?ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/10/09-ten196.jpg) ## 9\. You can now be treated as a terrorist just for visiting Israel *Jake Wallis Simons - spiked* - 🚪 Holly Passmore, a County Durham mum of two, opened the door to two plain-clothes police. - ✈️ They wanted to know why she had been to Israel. She’d been referred to Prevent, Britain’s counter-extremism scheme. - 📝 The anonymous referral said she was “supportive of Israel to the point that she has travelled to Israel”. - 🕍 Police asked whether she’d ever been to Auschwitz. She’s not Jewish. She’s studying the Holocaust. - 🏥 Her NHS records quietly tagged her a “vulnerable adult” for almost a year. She cares alone for her severely autistic son. - 🔪 Same Prevent that closed Axel Rudakubana’s case three times before he murdered three little girls in Southport. - 🎯 Passmore: “Nobody would describe me as vulnerable”. Wallis Simons says the people to worry about are the ones who knocked on her door. [Read More](https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/10/19/you-can-now-be-treated-as-a-terrorist-just-for-visiting-israel/?ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/10/10-ten196.jpg) ## 10\. No wonder JK Rowling wants nothing to do with the BBC *Malcolm Clark - spiked* - 📺 The BBC is making a two-part documentary on JK Rowling. Trans activists lost their minds anyway. - 🏷️ The press release calls her “one of Britain’s most polarising public figures”. - 📚 She’s sold more than 600 million Harry Potter books. Polarising, apparently. - 🙅 Missing from the release: any sign Rowling is taking part. - 🌟 Clark says celebrity access is everything now. Netflix’s Beckham, made with Posh and Becks, was its biggest UK show in 2023. - 🎙️ Rowling did talk to the Free Press for The Witch Trials of JK Rowling. A start-up got her. The BBC couldn’t. - 🪦 Clark’s verdict: the day the BBC lost Britain’s most successful living writer should loom large in the story of its “long, slow death”. [Read More](https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/10/20/no-wonder-jk-rowling-wants-nothing-to-do-with-the-bbc/?ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/10/goai-ad.png) ### **11\. Your election desk is already paid for.** Your VIP membership includes Good Oil AI: the poll of polls with seat ranges, a dossier on every MP, and Ask, which answers questions from Hansard, the votes, the donations and the registers with sources. Sign in with this email address: [app.goodoil.ai/login](https://app.goodoil.ai/login?utm%5Fsource=tenat10&utm%5Fcampaign=blitz26). Got a mate who should see it? 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