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Take it as a testament to how Hager can set the city and the political rumour mill alight: some poor junior producer has just spent their night photocopying every page so Heather du Plessis-Allan can talk about it on her radio show in Auckland today. …

Nicky Hager’s Dirty Work is not a ‘shock’ book, nor is it a celebrity memoir, it’s a truth book. Sales and readership don’t equate to a change in opinion. I seriously doubt you’ll read Dirty Work and argue blue in the face that it didn’t change your …

I [Nicky Hager] independently verified this allegation [of sexual harassment against TU chief executive Jordan Williams] from multiple sources with direct knowledge of it. The complaints included allegations about repeated uses of sexualised language in a …

Steve Braunias was at the launch of Nicky Hager’s new book Dirty Work: Taxpayers Union and New Zealand’s hard right [by dirty people]. https://newsroom.co.nz/2026/09/22/live-updates-the-nicky-hager-bombshell-if-it-is-a-bombshell/

TOP’s UBI policy is academic. It’ll keep much of the existing NZ welfare system intact or will have to reproduce it. It’ll do little for the poorest New Zealanders and could even make them worse off under certain circumstances that are quite normal. The …

So how many times does Simeon Brown miss his health targets? The answer is to be found withing the spectrum between lots of times to all the time. https://otaihangasecondopinion.wpcomstaging.com/2026/09/20/health-minister-misses-health-targets-yet-again/ …

I reckon it should be entitled Equinox with its launch on Tuesday in Wellington.

That was before publication on Friday of a Freshwater-The Post poll result which found Swarbrick is more trusted to run the economy than the incumbent Nicola Willis. Just. She edged Willis 24 percent to 23, with Labour’s Barbara Edmonds back on 9. https …

Luxon’s response to the cost-of-living crisis: Cry me a river. https://www.facebook.com/NZLabourParty/videos/you-need-to-see-this/2586998348414623/ Luxon is not merely out of touch, he’s an arrogant leader of the Coalition of Conceited.

Nicky-no-Boats was all talk. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/501345/supie-failure-nicola-willis-says-third-entrant-needed-to-break-up-supermarket-duopoly “I worry about rash interventions that are well-intentioned but end up costing New Zealand …

The fact there aren’t any other major competitors is evidence in itself. That’s a major logical fail! You’ve failed to answer the question.

Nurse Nicky is preparing the sedative for the lethargic NZ electorate. https://www.nzno.org.nz/about_us/nzno_in_the_news/artmid/8374/articleid/7238/2300-more-hospital-nurses-yeah-nah-nicola-willis [HT to Scoop https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE2609/S00051/ …

The world is small but the stinking incestuous pool of nepotism, cronyism, and other forms of favouritism in the National Party shows the gaping ethical hole that breeds greed & conflict of interest. Never mind, it’ll be managed as well as they manage all …

National is at pains to deny the accusation of planning to sell assets. Instead, they’ll sell assets in all but name, i.e., leasing it aka ‘asset recycling’. https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361033747/luxon-cracked-door-asset-sales-willis-slams-it-shut …

Yup https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/health/1406832/wellington-hospital-closes-off-part-of-corridor-for-extra-beds