1. Cookers of the world unite

    Ryan Hamilton, National’s Hamilton East candidate, has had social media released suggesting that he is against flouridation of water, opposed covid mandates and thinks that covid death numbers were inflated, is vehemently opposed to cycleways and thinks that poor people only drink Raro.

  2. Iran in the vortex – what’s really going on?

    To understand what’s going on in Iran, abandon what the Persians invented centuries ago: Manichaeism, black-and-white, political framing.

  3. Seymour and the mouldy meal

    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.

  4. “I did my own research”!

    “I did my own research”!
    “I did my own research”? No. You didn’t. You can’t!

  5. The other Jacinda Book

    Shortly after the release of Jacinda Ardern’s autobiography comes news of the release of a new biography for which the funding of and motivation for are not clear.

  6. Latest poll result – National is being cleaned out by NZ First and Act

    The latest Curia poll result suggests that National is tanking and NZ First and Act are eating into its support. And Luxon selling off his rental properties and saying that he does not care suggests he may be planning for an exit.

  7. It’s not a culture war, it’s a class war, and the left should be naming it as such

    The culture wars exist, and they are a tool weaponised in the class war.

  8. Winston Peters? I barely know him

    National has over the past couple of weeks indicated that it will ring Winston if it needs his votes, then saying that if he negotiates too hard it will seek a further election. This is real coalition of chaos stuff.

  9. Even Mike Hosking thinks that a National-Act-NZ First coalition would be an absolute disaster

    As the polls show a further slump in support for the right and as Winston Peters emerges as a kingmaker there is growing concern about the possibility of a real coalition of chaos being elected.

  10. Another Act candidate bites the dust

    Categories: act, election 2023

    At this rate Act may not have enough candidates to fill its list of MPs in Parliament.

  11. Where is NZ First’s list?

    With the nomination period closing within a week or so I wonder why NZ First has not published its list yet?

  12. Be afraid, be very afraid …

    David Seymour is feeling his oats and has claimed that past National Governments never changes anything.  A brief review of history would suggest otherwise.

  13. Sustainability Sunday

    So many good initiatives that demonstrate that sustainability and community resiliency are intertwined. The sheer numbers of people involved now is heartening at a time when we are inundated with what is going wrong.

    We’ve never had so much choice in what we can do to effect good change. We know the problems, now is the time to put our attention to the solutions, what is already working. and then get on with it.

  14. Caption contest

    Keep it seemly.

  15. Local Bodies: Climate Change Just Got Personal

    “At 46 degrees latitude south, New Zealand’s southern most city has regularly been experiencing similar temperatures to cities near the equator. When we were sizzling at 32 degrees, we equaled Cairns, were 2 degrees warmer than Jakarta and Suva and 6 above Nairobi. These cities are used to such temperatures and their ecosystems have adapted to it, it has been a severe shock to ours.”

  16. Phil Twyford: the Housing Crisis

    Phil Twyford argues housing will be the defining challenge for the next Labour-led Government, and sets out Labour’s reform agenda.

  17. Twyford on solutions to the housing crisis in Auckland

    As Nick Smith flounders about uselessly, here are extracts from Phil Twyford’s speech on solutions to the housing crisis in Auckland.

  18. Auckland property buyers

    The big story this morning is Labour’s analysis of Auckland property purchase data.

  19. The little I know about David Shearer

    I ran David Shearer’s campaign headquarters in the 2009 Mt Albert by-election. That gave me unique perspective to get a good hard look […]

  20. Anarchy to the rescue in Chch

    Farrar says it’s ‘ghastly’ to discuss how to pay for rebuilding Christchurch, since the obvious answer is by reversing the tax cuts rich people like him have pocketed. Well, I think how the poor eastern suburbs of Christchurch have been ignored is ghastly. Fortunately, resilient communities are organising themselves, without government.

  21. Sustainable living resources

    I’m trying not to get too depressed about the lack of an outcome at Copenhagen. As one analyst put it – “Leaders came […]