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Date published: 6:55 am, January 26th, 2026 - 268 comments
How misinformation and lies created the environment for battle in the US and elsewhere
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 26th, 2026 - 3 comments
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Date published: 11:40 am, January 25th, 2026 - 22 comments
Bryce Edwards’ piece and key mainstream media articles on how the Maunganui disaster happened are the start of a long, complex conversation about New Zealand’s precarity and the urgent need to change.
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Date published: 6:05 am, January 25th, 2026 - 46 comments
Ten months to go and there is no political party currently countering the sustained rise of New Zealand First.
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 25th, 2026 - 15 comments
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 24th, 2026 - 25 comments
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Date published: 4:45 pm, January 23rd, 2026 - 59 comments
Carney’s observations of the rupture in the world order and great power rivalry are mirrored in NZ politics.
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 23rd, 2026 - 28 comments
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Date published: 8:25 am, January 22nd, 2026 - 11 comments
Some NZ hospitals are going into critical status at least twice a day, turning away patients who are then as twice likely to die. Plus: National isn’t meeting its targets and election day announced.
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Date published: 6:09 am, January 22nd, 2026 - 44 comments
“The old order is not coming back. We should not mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy.
But from the fracture, we can build something better, stronger, and more just.
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The powerful have their power. But we have something too – the capacity to stop pretending, to name reality, to build our strength at home, and to act together.”
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 22nd, 2026 - 65 comments
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Date published: 3:55 pm, January 21st, 2026 - No comments
When holding out an olive branch to the Left in your Right hand, you should also show the other hand.
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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?
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 21st, 2026 - 17 comments
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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.
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 20th, 2026 - 28 comments
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 19th, 2026 - 27 comments
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Date published: 3:24 pm, January 18th, 2026 - 16 comments
When intensely watching the orange orangutan in the White House we miss the invisible gorilla in the oval room.
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 18th, 2026 - 8 comments
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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.
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 17th, 2026 - 13 comments
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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.
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Date published: 12:18 pm, January 16th, 2026 - 17 comments
The attack on the NZ Reserve Bank is lock step with Trump.
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 16th, 2026 - 7 comments
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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.
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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.
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 15th, 2026 - 15 comments
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 14th, 2026 - 9 comments
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 13th, 2026 - 43 comments
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Date published: 9:36 am, January 12th, 2026 - 6 comments
Mountain Tūī Opinion and Analysis on New Zealand’s “C” word
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 12th, 2026 - 11 comments
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