Written By: - Date published: 10:56 am, August 13th, 2026 - 48 comments
Christopher Luxon may have kept the National Party leadership yesterday but National’s chances in this year’s election just became much worse.
Written By: - Date published: 7:44 am, August 12th, 2026 - 77 comments
Christopher Luxon’s decision to call a National Caucus meeting this morning to vote on his leadership may result in him being forced to walk the plank.
Written By: - Date published: 2:19 pm, August 7th, 2026 - 3 comments
Christopher Luxon completed a week from Hell by calling his coleaders Yahoo and Numpty and obliterating Media coverage of the announcement of the opening of Auckland’s City Rail Tunnel and of new industry designed school subjects.
Written By: - Date published: 10:28 am, August 6th, 2026 - 26 comments
It has been disclosed that Christopher Luxon used an Air Force plane to fly him from a National Party fundraiser in Whanganui to his home in Auckland.
Written By: - Date published: 10:40 am, August 4th, 2026 - 25 comments
As we enter the home strait for the 2026 election National strategists must be thinking “what the f*(k do we do from here”? Because Christopher Luxon’s complete indifference to the difficulties businesses are facing and his inability to control Winston Peters are harming National’s reelection prospects big time.
Written By: - Date published: 6:21 pm, August 1st, 2026 - 139 comments
The Opportunity Party has a hidden objective. They want to make huge cuts to the Public Service that even Act would look at and think “that is brave”. And they have been less than open about the cuts.
Written By: - Date published: 1:11 pm, July 31st, 2026 - 37 comments
New Zealand First is peddling nonsense law changes straight out of the Donald Trump playbook. And engaging in obnoxious racist behaviour. And Christopher Luxon does not have the ability to stop them or control them.
Written By: - Date published: 10:34 am, July 31st, 2026 - 46 comments
After the 2005 election, the Chinese Embassy sent Zhang Wei to ask me if Winston Peters would follow Labour government policy. I said I didn’t know, but would ask.
Written By: - Date published: 9:33 am, July 23rd, 2026 - 29 comments
With the demise of Stuart Nash’s planned resumption of his political career the question has to be asked, did Stuart Nash leave NZ First or did NZ First leave Stuart Nash?
Written By: - Date published: 11:13 am, July 21st, 2026 - 8 comments
Shane Jones underscored Christopher Luxon’s weakness by telling him publicly that he needed to “take off your kneepads” when receiving a visit from foreign leaders without repercussion.
Written By: - Date published: 9:41 am, July 14th, 2026 - 64 comments
The latest RNZ Reid Research Poll suggests that the chances of Christopher Luxon needing a new job after the next election are increasing.
Written By: - Date published: 12:06 pm, June 18th, 2026 - 21 comments
New Zealand pushes ahead to privatise conservation land, opening up almost 5 million hectares for sale and/or exchange
Written By: - Date published: 12:04 pm, June 17th, 2026 - 10 comments
In the United States and in New Zealand the current administrations wish to speed up the finalisation of election results by supressing the right to vote.
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 12:13 pm, April 17th, 2026 - 12 comments
Is this the final straw for Luxon? And what legacy has he left behind?
Written By: - Date published: 9:42 am, April 17th, 2026 - 34 comments
National is leaking like a sieve. Either a coup is under way or a group of disgruntled MPs are busily attempting to destabilise Luxon’s leadership. Either way this is not good for National.
Written By: - Date published: 9:07 am, April 8th, 2026 - 16 comments
Vanushi Walters has outlined a stark contrast between the Government’s appeasement of Donald Trump and Labour’s desire to have an independent principle based foreign policy.
Written By: - Date published: 10:15 am, April 6th, 2026 - 48 comments
As this Government’s inaction over the oil crisis becomes more pronounced more and more people are noticing that Christopher Luxon is missing in action.
Written By: - Date published: 5:38 pm, April 5th, 2026 - 19 comments
Christopher Luxon this week showed strong leadership by demoting Chris Bishop for a coup against Luxon that was staged six months ago.
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