Kamikaze Chris does Labour a favour
On May 21st, 2026 National’s Chris Bishop did his best to lose the 2026 general election and his Hutt South electorate.
Open Mike 05/06/2026
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Daily review 04/06/2026
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When is a Free Speech Union not a Free Speech Union?
When it is a right wing astroturfing front.
Open Mike 04/06/2026
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Daily review 03/06/2026
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Open Mike 03/06/2026
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Daily review 02/06/2026
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Open Mike 02/06/2026
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No nukes
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.
Open Mike 01/06/2026
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Hegseth accuses New Zealand of freeloading because we don’t want to arm for war
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.
Open Mike 31/05/2026
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Open Mike 30/05/2026
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Daily review 29/05/2026
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Open Mike 29/05/2026
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BHN: The Peoples’ Budget Lock-Up 2026
The Peoples’ Budget Lock-Up 2026 brings together unions, iwi, students, community organisations, advocates, and workers to collectively respond to Budget 2026 and help shape a people-centred alternative.
At 9pm BHN will talk first with Chris Hipkins, then later with Ricardo Menendez.
Daily review 28/05/2026
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OMG BUDGET 2026
This is simply your space to react to the hyperbole, the outrages, the theatre of this coalition government’s election year budget. Buckle in.
Open Mike 28/05/2026
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More fishy than a bait shop
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.
Daily review 27/05/2026
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Open Mike 27/05/2026
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Daily review 26/05/2026
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Open Mike 26/05/2026
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Daily review 25/05/2026
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Doing their master’s bidding
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.
Open Mike 25/05/2026
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The absurdity of the Move on Orders law
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.
Open Mike 24/05/2026
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Open Mike 23/05/2026
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Daily review 22/05/2026
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Walking backwards off the cliff
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.
Do We Still Want Socialism?
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.
National wages war on the poor
How cruel do you have to be to raise rents for some of our poorest citizens during a cost of living crisis?
Open Mike 22/05/2026
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