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Open Mike 31/01/2026
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Green Shoots, Anyone?
There is no evidence of immediate improvement in our economy, or of this government improving it. At the height of the COVID pandemic and our most acute economic crisis in two decades, company liquidations+receiverships+voluntary administrations were 1379+78+18: 1,475. The 2025 total of business failures was…
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Mr 8%
Repost from Mountain Tui Substack A new school year has started for some, and tamiriki who can do with a love filled, nourishing meal are met with the food standards that David Seymour told us reflects ‘free market success’ and ‘private-public partnership effectiveness’. Seymour’s incompetence…
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Open Mike 30/01/2026
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Who would have thunk that slashing Health IT budgets would result in IT outages
The economic geniuses in charge think that they can run budgets better. They criticised the last Government for spending too much and thought that they could achieve superior results on smaller budgets. Like in Health. Last year they slashed a third of roles in Health…
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Open Mike 29/01/2026
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How the Atlas Network is shaping your life, even if you’ve never heard of it
Morena, Regular readers of Mountain Tūī will know of Atlas Network - a pro fossil fuel, pro tobacco, anti indigenous group operating around the world. Since 2023, well before it was featured on MATA, I’ve written extensively about its tentacles into NZ based politicians, policies,…
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Open Mike 28/01/2026
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Open Mike 27/01/2026
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Civil war wasn’t inevitable – but it may be
American civil war feels increasingly likely. A “kind hearted, caring” ICU nurse for American Veterans was executed by American ICE and Border Patrol officials for the crime of being a decent human being. His name was Alex Pretti. Alex Jeffrey Pretti. White male born in…
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Open Mike 26/01/2026
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The Mount Maunganui disaster and climate responsibility
People have died, and some of the bodies are still to be recovered. More houses are being evacuated in parts of the country due to slips. Many roads and bridges are still closed or at risk. A lot of people are in an emergency. Can…
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The rise of Winston follows the rise of Pauline Hansen and Nigel Farage
Ten months to go and there is no political party currently countering the sustained rise of New Zealand First. For the first time in Australia's history, a minor party has polled higher than one of the other major parties. The combined intended vote for the…
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Open Mike 25/01/2026
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Open Mike 24/01/2026
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Mapping Carney’s speech to our MMP Politics
Would it be fun or folly trying to map the lessons of Carney’s speech onto our MMP environment? Firstly, to use Carney’s lens to attempt an analysis of how things are at present (state of the nation), i.e., let’s see if there are parallels in…
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Open Mike 23/01/2026
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What price is a “Kiwi” worth?
New data shows that Wellington Hospital's emergency department went into its most critical code red status on average nearly twice a day between January and October 2025. About 10 patients a day left the ED untreated during that period - 3200 in total. Death rates…
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The Carney speech
The remarkable, standing ovation speech to the World Economic Forum in Davos from Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. Full transcript here. https://youtu.be/dE981Z_TaVo?t=101
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Open Mike 22/01/2026
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Atlas NZ Inc: we are (the) good guys
A prominent supporter of the Atlas Agenda in NZ has penned a passive-aggressive defence of his ideology masquerading as book review about populism. The book, apparently, paints populism as a grave danger. To what exactly, you might ask, and this is where the book review(ed)…
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Should Luxon join Trump’s Board of Peace?
US President Donald Trump who recently oversaw the invasion of Venezuela and is threatening to invade Greenland, which is part of Denmark, is proposing a Board of Peace to oversee the rebuild of Gaza. Aotearoa's own Christopher Luxon has received an invite to be part…
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Open Mike 21/01/2026
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Management speech mumbo jumbo
Christopher Luxon gave his state of the nation speech yesterday. Without exaggeration I can truly say it was the worst state of the nation speech I have ever heard. It was even worse than his 2025 or his 2024 speeches. There was no passion. No…
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Open Mike 20/01/2026
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Open Mike 19/01/2026
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Flooding the zone with Trump trumps Godwin’s law
The Romans developed an early algorithm to keep the plebs under control through offering bread and circuses. These tactics aimed to distract the people from burning socio-economic and therefore thorny political issues and occupy their minds with the thrills and frills of spectacles. The emperor…
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Open Mike 18/01/2026
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Luxon’s utu
The Herald may have to reconsider the awarding of Chris Bishop of the mantle of being the politician of the year. Because he has just had his arse handed to him by Christopher Luxon who has reversed Bishop's proposed Plan Change 120 allowing for significant…
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Open Mike 17/01/2026
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