Written By: - Date published: 5:16 pm, June 6th, 2026 - 3 comments
FiveEyes issues warning re possible Chinese intelligence recruiting methods! Beware! China issues warning re already recruited anti-China MPs. Cue shock horror!
Written By: - Date published: 8:33 am, June 5th, 2026 - 31 comments
On May 21st, 2026 National’s Chris Bishop did his best to lose the 2026 general election and his Hutt South electorate.
Written By: - Date published: 9:37 am, June 1st, 2026 - 30 comments
The timing of the recent suggestion by Chris Penk that New Zealand should review its nuclear free policy makes you wonder if the Trump Administration has applied pressure to do so.
Written By: - Date published: 9:24 am, May 31st, 2026 - 32 comments
Pete Hegseth has claimed that New Zealand is freeloading because it is not spending enough of weapons of war at a time of international chaos created by the United States.
Written By: - Date published: 2:01 pm, May 28th, 2026 - 83 comments
This is simply your space to react to the hyperbole, the outrages, the theatre of this coalition government’s election year budget. Buckle in.
Written By: - Date published: 8:38 pm, May 27th, 2026 - 15 comments
Christopher Luxon has implied that a junior staffer met major polluters and received submissions urging him to sink Mike Smith’s bid to hold them to account which were then hidden. But it was his Chief Policy Advisor.
Written By: - Date published: 9:10 am, May 25th, 2026 - 43 comments
Briefing papers from two of the corporates being sued by Mike Smith for damaging the environment urging the Government to change the law to stop the case were received but allegedly lost by Luxon’s office.
Written By: - Date published: 11:31 am, May 24th, 2026 - 5 comments
Paul Goldsmith’s move on orders bill applies to young people aged 14 even though existing legislation provides police with all the powers they need to deal with homeless young people.
Written By: - Date published: 1:36 pm, May 22nd, 2026 - 6 comments
The coming oil shock is not just about oil. The future is baked in, and its not good. National’s backward-looking budget will make it much worse.
Written By: - Date published: 8:55 am, May 22nd, 2026 - 32 comments
There are still those who pine, from the readership of Jacinda Ardern’s biography, for a state that is perfectly kind, does everything with speed and authority, and brims with patrician wisdom for us all. Her 1.5 terms held many instances in which the state operated on the extremes of control to respond to massive crises.
Written By: - Date published: 8:19 am, May 22nd, 2026 - 32 comments
How cruel do you have to be to raise rents for some of our poorest citizens during a cost of living crisis?
Written By: - Date published: 1:24 pm, May 19th, 2026 - 73 comments
National today intensified efforts to alienate the entire public service by announcing that a further 9,000 public positions will be culled if, god help us, they are returned to power.
Written By: - Date published: 5:36 pm, May 18th, 2026 - 35 comments
Voter beware – some politicians are pathological populists who cannot be trusted.
Written By: - Date published: 9:01 am, May 18th, 2026 - 46 comments
Winston Peters is trying to appeal to the far left by calling for the renationalisation of the Bank of New Zealand.
Written By: - Date published: 6:09 pm, May 15th, 2026 - 14 comments
What you read in the media is not what happened.
Written By: - Date published: 10:20 am, May 14th, 2026 - 33 comments
Why is Chris Bishop wanting to review the cost of the City Rail Link while at the same time is happy to proceed with roads of national signficance that are very expensive but provide limited financial return?
Written By: - Date published: 10:01 am, May 12th, 2026 - 26 comments
The Government’s plans to retrospectively change the law to stop a case seeking damages for climate damage caused by heavy emitters is a constitutional outrage and shows not only contempt for the rule of law but also contempt for any action taken by a citizen against climate change.
Written By: - Date published: 11:41 am, May 11th, 2026 - 76 comments
That’s Starmer’s achievement, as the local elections show. He always was a muppet puppet; his string-pullers are much more sinister.
Written By: - Date published: 9:47 am, May 10th, 2026 - 38 comments
National has engaged in a Dirty Politics style attack on TVNZ reporter Maiki Sherman in an attempt to cower the media in election year.
Written By: - Date published: 1:58 pm, May 1st, 2026 - 6 comments
When Ambassador Chen Mingming sent Zhang Wei in 2005 to ask me whether Winston Peters would follow government policy, I said I didn’t know but would ask. I did, and he did.
Written By: - Date published: 1:15 pm, April 30th, 2026 - 40 comments
Opinion – Jacinda Ardern was a great Prime Minister and her loss was actually ours.
Written By: - Date published: 11:01 am, April 30th, 2026 - 23 comments
Christopher Luxon has responded to Winston Peters releasing emails suggesting Luxon wanted to support the US invasion of Iran by dressing him down publicly. The Government is clearly in crisis.
Written By: - Date published: 10:36 am, April 26th, 2026 - 46 comments
The Peters-Willis-Jones stoush during the past week underlines the importance of Labour indicating that it will not go into coalition with NZ First after the next election.
Written By: - Date published: 1:26 pm, April 21st, 2026 - 36 comments
Any time a political leader has to put their position to a vote, they become a dead pigeon. David Lange knew winning the vote didn’t end the matter.
Written By: - Date published: 10:38 am, April 21st, 2026 - 21 comments
Multiple leadership coups have been attempted on Luxon, but even as the PM flails on 17% approval, he and his loyalist Ministers say unruly MPs will be disciplined. Who are the latest?
Written By: - Date published: 8:33 am, April 21st, 2026 - 19 comments
Christopher Luxon will today face his sternest challenge as leader as repeatedly bad polls are having their effect on National’s caucus’s morale.
Written By: - Date published: 6:10 am, April 21st, 2026 - 28 comments
“The plan would electrify homes, transport and industry, ending New Zealand’s dependence on unpredictable global fossil fuel markets, cutting household power bills, and building real energy security at home.”
Written By: - Date published: 1:24 pm, April 19th, 2026 - 33 comments
National Party Minister Chris Bishop claims that Luxon has the full support of all Caucus members in the latest development of the Luxon coup attempts
Written By: - Date published: 3:17 pm, April 18th, 2026 - 36 comments
My hunch is that Luxon stands down as Prime Minister, to be replaced by Mark Mitchell.
Written By: - Date published: 10:10 am, April 18th, 2026 - 6 comments
Following threats against Canada, Greenland, Denmark and engaging in attacks on Iran, Venezuela, Latin America, Nigeria, Syria and Iraq Donald Trump has now attacked the Pope.
Written By: - Date published: 12:13 pm, April 17th, 2026 - 12 comments
Is this the final straw for Luxon? And what legacy has he left behind?
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