Written By: - Date published: 6:05 am, January 25th, 2026 - 24 comments
Ten months to go and there is no political party currently countering the sustained rise of New Zealand First.
Written By: - Date published: 9:27 am, January 21st, 2026 - 16 comments
Donald Trump invited Christopher Luxon to join a new organisation to oversee the redevelopment of Gaza and eventually the replacement of the United Nations. How should Luxon respond?
Written By: - Date published: 11:16 am, January 20th, 2026 - 17 comments
Christopher Luxon’s latest State of the Nation speech suggests that over summer he has been spending more on his Spotify summer list than he should have.
Written By: - Date published: 11:11 am, January 17th, 2026 - 10 comments
Christopher Luxon is extracting utu on Chris Bishop for his pre Christmas attempted coup by making Bishop eat humble pie on his plans to allow intensification in Auckland’s inner suburbs.
Written By: - Date published: 9:27 pm, January 16th, 2026 - 26 comments
To understand what’s going on in Iran, abandon what the Persians invented centuries ago: Manichaeism, black-and-white, political framing.
Written By: - Date published: 12:18 pm, January 16th, 2026 - 17 comments
The attack on the NZ Reserve Bank is lock step with Trump.
Written By: - Date published: 3:01 pm, January 15th, 2026 - 4 comments
The merger of many functions of the central public sector concerned with cities, the environment, housing and urban development, and transport, was announced in the week before Christmas and is now underway. There’s plenty of good on the face of it.
Written By: - Date published: 10:49 am, January 15th, 2026 - 27 comments
Winston Peters has attacked the REserve Bank Governor Anna Bremen for publicly expressing concern about politically inspired Department of Justice attacks on US Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell.
Written By: - Date published: 9:36 am, January 12th, 2026 - 6 comments
Mountain Tūī Opinion and Analysis on New Zealand’s “C” word
Written By: - Date published: 12:43 pm, January 10th, 2026 - 17 comments
Brooke Van Velden, responsible for refusing a firefighters’ levy increase in 2024, piled on to firefighters who have been struggling for over a year to be heard – leading to catastrophic losses & risk
Written By: - Date published: 11:32 am, January 10th, 2026 - 100 comments
The competing social media takes based on video that clearly shows that the shooting of Minnesota woman Renee Good was totally unjustified shows how dominant social discord is now considered to be more important than truth.
Written By: - Date published: 10:57 am, January 7th, 2026 - 25 comments
Among a significant number of leaders claiming they are actively monitoring the situation in Venezuela after the US invasion and the kidnapping of President Maduro are some pointed and very relevant comments from some unusual sources.
Written By: - Date published: 9:39 am, January 6th, 2026 - 12 comments
The company has been accused of using outdated encryption protocols, and has been slow to respond to community concerns. And importantly, has National put our other public health data at risk too?
Written By: - Date published: 10:05 am, January 3rd, 2026 - 5 comments
David Seymour has spent some of his holidays meeting Argentine leader Javier Milei and praising Milei’s far right inspired destruction of local Government institutions.
Written By: - Date published: 10:22 am, January 2nd, 2026 - 8 comments
What will election year 2026 bring to Aotearoa?
Written By: - Date published: 11:44 am, January 1st, 2026 - 67 comments
Israel bans 37 NGOs from Gaza including the world renowned medical charity Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontière)
Written By: - Date published: 9:39 am, December 31st, 2025 - 3 comments
Chris Bishop is thought by some to be the politician of the year, mainly for drafting a couple of bills plaigarised from the work of David Parker and untested promises to build hugely expensive roads of National significance. But they are ignoring the most extraordinary performance by an opposition leader in recent decades.
Written By: - Date published: 12:03 pm, December 23rd, 2025 - 11 comments
Advantage gets out the crystal ball and postilated what may happen next year.
Written By: - Date published: 11:36 am, December 21st, 2025 - 9 comments
National’s Ministerial Retail Advisory Group leader Sunny Kaushall has hit the headlines for huge catering costs inluding paying $9 for bottles of coke worth $5.50. But the deeper story should be why his activity, which is clearly political in nature, being funded by a fund set aside for victims.
Written By: - Date published: 2:06 pm, December 19th, 2025 - 18 comments
the US administration stresses that countries like Australia, New Zealand, South Korea and Japan will need to militarise as never before in peacetime to keep China in its place.
Written By: - Date published: 11:55 am, December 19th, 2025 - 6 comments
The Taxpayer’s Union campaign against Nicola Willis’s Socialist handling of the economy, complete with novelty fudge has crashed unceremoniously. The sponsors have clearly spoken.
Written By: - Date published: 7:31 am, December 19th, 2025 - 3 comments
Masterton hospital has been deemed structurally unsafe with money awarded for its remediation after a long court case.
Written By: - Date published: 12:29 pm, December 16th, 2025 - 17 comments
PLUS: Brooke Van Velden overturns historic Supreme Court Uber ruling, after Uber lost their appeal unanimously last month
Written By: - Date published: 10:23 am, December 14th, 2025 - 13 comments
If Labour wins government in 2026, many things won’t be recoverable.
Written By: - Date published: 3:36 pm, December 13th, 2025 - 5 comments
NZ previously secured next-gen, hybrid ferries for 40% less than market price during Covid. The cancellation of these partially built 2026 ferries resulted in a loss of $700m to more than $1bn
Written By: - Date published: 9:48 am, December 13th, 2025 - 5 comments
Under a series of science driven policy options, National / ACT and NZ First unanimously choose “catastrophic peril”. Anything for the fossil fuel and farmer industry, but at what cost, NZ?
Written By: - Date published: 8:27 pm, December 12th, 2025 - 25 comments
“The days of the United States propping up the entire world order like Atlas are over.” White House National Security Strategy, 2025
Written By: - Date published: 12:12 pm, December 7th, 2025 - 27 comments
This may be a one term National Government. But electoral law reform, the state of Labour’s coalition partners, a possible economic upturn and a change in National’s leader threaten this.
Written By: - Date published: 5:46 pm, December 5th, 2025 - 6 comments
Many unaware as what we hold dear and for granted slips.
Written By: - Date published: 11:50 am, December 4th, 2025 - 12 comments
It appears to be more and more inevitable that National will welch on the country’s Paris Accord obligations.
Written By: - Date published: 11:29 am, December 2nd, 2025 - 22 comments
David Seymour’s campaign to reduce the so called excessive spend on Labour’s school lunches have struck a rather awkward problem. At least for one school recently provided lunches were inedible which basically destroys the whole reason for having them.
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