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# Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/203
- URL: https://goodoil.news/your-daily-ten-10-2026-203/
- Published: 2026-11-02T21:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-02T20:59:59.000Z
- 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 2026/203 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\. "Doing the Math" - Against Democracy.

*Chris Trotter - Chris Trotter (Substack)*

- 🗳️ Trotter asks whether the left will wake up on Sunday 8 November and decide to fight the result in the streets, the way the French do.
- 📉 He points to the 1News-Verian and RNZ-Reid Research polls. National is falling and its coalition partners are rising.
- 🧮 RNZ-Reid Research has National on 24.8 percent of the party vote. In a normal MMP election that's about 30 seats.
- 🏠 But he says there's "Not. A. Chance." Labour takes 18 electorates off National. So National could pick up an overhang of 10 to 15 seats.
- 📐 With Parliament ballooning to 130 to 135 seats, the left needs at least 66\. In his scenario it wins 64 and loses, even with more than half the party vote.
- 🤝 He doesn't call vote splitting illegal. His beef is that it's organised, quoting union veteran Pat Kelly: "This vote wasn't stitched-up, comrade, it was organised."
- 🎯 He says the strategy is about saving the right, not National, even if Nicola Willis and Gerry Brownlee lose their seats in Parliament.
- 🔥 His warning: shut the left out of power and the radicals may go looking for it "by other means", several notches up from the Treaty Principles Bill protests.
- 🔪 My take? Every rule Trotter describes was there when the left was using it. Now that the right has done the maths, it's suddenly a threat to democracy.

[Read More](https://christrotter418256.substack.com/p/doing-the-math-against-democracy)

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## 2\. Strategic Voting is Right and Fair

*Flag n Fix (Substack)*

- 🗳️ Flag n Fix says splitting your vote is nothing new. It's part of MMP, and 35% of voters split their vote at the last election.
- 🙏 The writer reckons the country owes Reality Check Radio "a great deal of gratitude" for explaining how the two votes work.
- ❓ National's two-tick line gets short shrift. Luxon warned the split vote could confuse voters and risk a Labour-led government.
- 🚗 The reply: if people can drive cars and use computers, they can handle two ticks.
- 💬 Don Brash told RCR: "It is a great sadness to me that the party I once led is now putting party over country and denigrating the intelligence of right-side voters."
- 📺 The post leans on David Farrar's count of state broadcaster coverage. Opportunity and the Greens got five to seven times more favourable coverage than ACT and NZ First.
- 🏛️ It quotes Winston Peters at Whanganui, saying a packed meeting in Palmerston North got "not a word, not a syllable" from the mainstream media.
- 🧾 It also flags Troy Bowker's warning that Opportunity's land value tax would hit homeowners and farmers every year, whatever their income.
- 🔪 My take? The two ticks are yours. National can ask for both, but it can't stop you doing the maths.

[Read More](https://flagnfix.substack.com/p/strategic-voting-is-right-and-fair)

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## 3\. To change, or not to change, a government.

*Grant Duncan - Politics Happens*

- 🗓️ Election night is 7 November, final results land on 27 November, and Duncan says coalition talks could take weeks.
- 💸 Polls put the cost of living as the top issue. He blames poor productivity growth and unfair ways of sharing out income and wealth.
- 🤖 He says AI is already picking and rejecting job applicants, yet it has hardly featured in the campaign.
- 🙈 "Political heads are buried deep in the sand on this."
- 📺 He's scathing about the two Chrises, calling them "unimpressive and mendacious" and the same pair who debated three years ago.
- 📊 Hooton reckoned Hipkins won the Stuff debate by asking if you're better off. Duncan notes unemployment hit 5.6% and inflation went over 4%, though September's figure was 3.7%.
- 🔙 Luxon's reply is that inflation topped 7% under Labour in 2022\. Duncan says that line gets weaker as time passes.
- 🔮 His real question: will you be better off in three years, and under whose leadership?
- 🔪 My take? Fair point on AI. But a man who calls both leaders liars still has to pick one of them on Saturday.

[Read More](https://grantduncanphd.substack.com/p/to-change-or-not-to-change-a-government)

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## 4\. Remoras, wasps and coalition government

*Liam Hehir - The Blue Review w/ Liam Hehir*

- 🦈 Hehir starts with the remora and the shark. Natural rivals, but both do better working together. That's how a coalition is meant to work.
- 🐝 Then there's the tropical wasp that lays its egg inside a host, which gets eaten from the inside out.
- ⚖️ He says this coalition was never one of equals. ACT and NZ First can claim the popular wins and distance themselves from the rest. National can't.
- 📉 That's one reason he gives for National missing the usual first-term bounce.
- 🔁 A vote moved from National to ACT or NZ First isn't lost to the right, he says. But it isn't a vote gained either.
- 🧮 On the overhang strategy, he says both smaller parties seem to have given their blessing to split-vote ads, with ACT's consent tied to a message backing its own electorate seats.
- 🏛️ National has resisted. Hehir says the minute it starts "licensing defection" it stops being the natural home of centre-right voters.
- ⏳ His warning is a long stretch out of power, like the right's fourteen years from 1935 to 1949.
- 🔪 My take? A tidy case for National's two ticks. The catch is that voters, not parties, decide where their votes go.

[Read More](https://thebluereview.substack.com/p/remoras-wasps-and-coalition-government)

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## 5\. From Portland To Paris To Pretoria, The Left Creates The Problems It Blames On Civilization

*Michael Shellenberger - Public*

- 🏨 A downtown Portland hotel sold for $101 million less than it was bought for in 2016\. The media blamed the pandemic and slow tourism.
- 🏙️ Shellenberger blames soft-on-crime policy. Portland's commercial vacancy rate is 24%, against Nashville's 16%.
- 🇫🇷 French students protesting teacher shortages? He says spending per pupil is up 1.6% a year in constant euros since 1980.
- 🇿🇦 South Africa's water and sewage systems are collapsing. He notes apartheid ended in 1994 and the left has run the place ever since.
- 🗳️ Nearly 80% of Portland voters backed Kamala Harris, and Oregon hasn't had a Republican governor since the early 1980s.
- 📰 A 2022 survey of 1,600 journalists found just 3% identified as Republicans. In 1971 it was over 25%.
- 🎓 Universities went the same way, he says, and the media stopped filtering and just repeated the left's framings.
- 🔄 His argument: the left causes the mess, then blames "the system", meaning civilisation itself.
- 📚 It's a taster for The Left's War on Reality, his book with Alex Gutentag, out from HarperCollins in January.
- 🔪 My take? Swap Portland for Wellington's CBD and see if it sounds familiar.

[Read More](https://www.public.news/p/from-portland-to-paris-to-pretoria?ref=goodoil.news)

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## 6\. Anthropic asks investors to trust it won't do evil

*Paul McBeth - Jenny Ruth's Just the Business*

- 📈 Anthropic's S-1 shows revenue of US$16.29 billion in the six months to 30 June, up from US$1.16 billion a year earlier.
- 📉 Its operating loss narrowed to US$693 million from US$2.14 billion, and it had US$131.7 billion in cash and short-term investments.
- 💰 Talk is of a raise of up to US$100 billion at a valuation of US$1.5 trillion to US$2 trillion.
- 🛡️ The pitch is safety. A Long-Term Benefit Trust with no financial interest can appoint most of the board.
- 🙏 McBeth says there's an element of "trust us, we know what we're doing", like Google's "Don't be evil" in 2004.
- 🎁 Anthropic is putting 5% of its equity into a public good fund, and the co-founders have pledged 80% of their equity to charity.
- 🖥️ The catch is compute. Anthropic is on the hook for almost US$660 billion in leases over the next decade, whether it uses the capacity or not.
- 🇳🇿 He says New Zealand could shine here, with new generation coming and the renewable power and water data centres need.
- ⚡ Done right, we could export our electrons through AI infrastructure the way we do with aluminium from Tiwai Point.
- 🔪 My take? Never mind the halo. If they want cheap clean power, we've got it. Get the consents moving.

[Read More](https://justthebusinessjennyruth.substack.com/p/anthropic-asks-investors-to-trust)

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## 7\. Douglas Murray: Bibi Derangement Syndrome Is Spreading

*Douglas Murray - The Free Press*

- 🧠 Murray says Bibi Derangement Syndrome was around long before Trump Derangement Syndrome, and was even more virulent.
- 🗳️ He says Tuesday's election in Israel shows it's "a vision-impairing condition".
- 🍷 Spend time in Tel Aviv and you'll wonder how Netanyahu ever got elected. Nobody you meet admits to voting for him.
- 📊 He says the polls consistently, almost systematically, underestimate Netanyahu, and he surprises every time.
- ⏳ Netanyahu has been prime minister for 19 of the last 30 years, the longest-serving in Israel's history.
- 🌍 When he first took office, Clinton was president, John Major was prime minister and Hafez al-Assad ruled Syria.
- 🎯 Murray's point: however the next government shapes up, anti-Zionists, antisemites and peaceniks around the world "will feel no less hostile".
- 🔪 My take? Murray's right about the polls. They've written Bibi off before and he keeps turning up.

[Read More](https://www.thefp.com/p/douglas-murray-benjamin-netanyahu-israel-elections-gadi-eisenkot?ref=goodoil.news)

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## 8\. How to vote New Zealand election 2026: Electorate guide

*Liberty Scott - Liberty Scott*

- 🗺️ Liberty Scott has gone through every electorate and picked who he'd back for more freedom, smaller government and less tax.
- 🚫 He says it isn't strategic or about creating an overhang. He does urge votes against the Greens and Te Pati Maori.
- 📶 Each pick is rated high, medium or low priority, so you can tell where your electorate vote actually counts.
- 🏙️ Auckland Central: Candace Kinser, National, high priority, to beat Chloe Swarbrick.
- 🥊 Botany: Ali Dahche of ACT, high priority, if you want to give Luxon "a bloody nose".
- 🚇 Hutt South: he backs Chris Bishop as one of the few National ministers with some passion for reform, citing congestion pricing and road user charges.
- 🪙 Epsom: Seymour or Goldsmith. Goldsmith has been good on hate speech and the BSA, so he says flip a coin.
- 🗳️ In the Maori seats he often backs Labour to knock out TPM, like Toni Boynton against Rawiri Waititi in Waiariki.
- 🔪 My take? A cracking read for anyone still undecided on the electorate vote. Find your seat before Saturday.

[Read More](https://libertyscott.blogspot.com/2026/11/how-to-vote-new-zealand-election-2026.html?ref=goodoil.news)

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## 9\. Is it 'Islamophobic' to mention Islam's history of conquest?

*Steven Greer - spiked*

- ⚖️ Collin May was sacked as head of the Alberta Human Rights Commission in September 2022 after an "Islamophobia" accusation.
- 📖 The trigger was a 2009 review he wrote of Islamic Imperialism: A History by Efraim Karsh, published by Yale University Press.
- 🎓 May has degrees in law, political philosophy and Islamic studies, and has worked for the International Committee of the Red Cross.
- ✂️ An NDP-affiliated blogger attributed Karsh's view to May, ignoring his next sentence: "But we need to be careful here…"
- 📢 The National Council of Canadian Muslims demanded he go. He refused to apologise.
- 🏛️ He's now suing the Alberta government for unfair dismissal, and the NCCM and the blogger for defamation.
- 🔒 May's new book argues cancel culture is morphing into a state strategy he calls "incarceration culture".
- 🤔 Greer, himself research director at a progressive Muslim think-tank, says May's book makes "a splendid contribution".
- 🔪 My take? Reviewing a Yale history book cost a man his job. That's where hate speech rules lead.

[Read More](https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/11/01/is-it-islamophobic-to-mention-islams-history-of-conquest/?ref=goodoil.news)

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## 10\. Lewis Hamilton's Grand Prix of hypocrisy

*James Price - spiked*

- 🏎️ After years of lobbying for an African race, Hamilton got his wish. Rwanda will host a Grand Prix from the early 2030s.
- 🚨 The US sanctioned Rwanda's army in March for backing the M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
- ⚖️ Amnesty International says M23's abuses may amount to war crimes. The DRC's foreign minister called the race "morally indefensible".
- 🤐 Hamilton's response: "I don't get to choose where we go", plus a call for "humility" when judging African countries.
- 🌍 He blamed Rwanda's problems on "colonialism and the West intervening".
- 🌈 Price contrasts that with the rainbow helmet in Qatar and Saudi Arabia, and calling Saudi anti-gay laws "pretty terrifying".
- 🤔 He suggests the silence may be because an African Grand Prix was Hamilton's own idea.
- 🏛️ Price, a former chief of staff to the UK chancellor, wants someone on the podium whispering "Free Congo", like the slave in a Roman Triumph.
- 🔪 My take? Activism is easy when it's someone else's race. Not so much when it's your own.

[Read More](https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/11/01/lewis-hamiltons-grand-prix-of-hypocrisy/?ref=goodoil.news)

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