this was yesterday but the great thing about being in New Zealand is that we also get American April Fools today

happy to have established myself as a key source of depressing housing news thespinoff.co.nz/politics/31-...

you can learn a lot in The Spinoff comment section

Thank goodness The Spinoff rescued @haydendonnell.bsky.social from his totally unhelpful role as a media commentator on RNZ and put his skills to use properly!!

once again very proud of my contributions to The Spinoff

This Iran situation isn't looking great. But surely our politicians have been taking steps to reduce our dependence on oil. Would be very concerned if not thespinoff.co.nz/politics/17-...

This actually feels really reassuring I get the appeal

Any time you can crash the global economy to replace a bad guy with a worse guy you gotta do it

Labour had six long years to fix Christopher Luxon's polling

man this is so true

feel I may have undermined today's column by putting in something I actually agree with thespinoff.co.nz/politics/25-...

Me the government 🤝 Addressing issues by refusing to look at them

breaking new frontiers when it comes to headline writing at The Spinoff

did some data journalism thespinoff.co.nz/politics/11-...

Though I try to stay humble, I'd say I'm probably the nation's top journalist when it comes to in-depth reporting on the Waitangi dildo strike. Even so, I hadn't picked up this piece of info until this week thespinoff.co.nz/politics/05-...

Incisive critique from David Seymour: the people trying to remove the single biggest barrier to building housing should focus instead on trying to make it easier to build houses

would honestly prefer it if the anti-upzoning people would just come out and say the sight of a townhouse makes them sick rather than gabbling on nonsensically about the lack of infrastructure in the most infrastructure-dense parts of the city thespinoff.co.nz/politics/19-...

'We’ve been treated to a cacophony of handwringing about infrastructure, but it boils down to ‘not in my backyard’.' @haydendonnell.bsky.social #Auckland

I know this is a shocking thing to say but the Herald's habit of assuming extra housing is inherently negative has me wondering if it might have some kind of editorial slant on urban issues

Rank insubordination from AT, taunting the mayor with their Santa parade float

Auckland’s traffic is bad because we built all our houses in Massey and Papakura to avoid upsetting the inhospitable residents of our inner city suburbs thespinoff.co.nz/society/19-1...

Took a flight to Whakatāne last week. Got to interview the very cool new mayor Nándor Tánczos and most importantly, was finally able to see NZ's most impressive municipal building in person thespinoff.co.nz/politics/05-...

The government’s disdain for unions and love for teachers, doctors and nurses is slightly confusing given unions are made up of teachers, doctors and nurses thespinoff.co.nz/politics/27-...

Some sort of investment fund? This economically illiterate 1970s state capitalism policy pales in comparison to my strategy: spending every last dollar this country has on 10 roads

Vulgar graffiti on the northwestern cycle path, yet more evidence this city has descended into lawlessness

Step one: engineer a recession and cancel infrastructure projects. Step two: get mad at people for not having a job thespinoff.co.nz/politics/10-...

experiencing a swell of patriotism over our officials repeatedly losing secret government documents at second hand stores

I have been back at The Spinoff for a while and once again I am doing very well thank you thespinoff.co.nz/politics/06-...

Was surprised to learn on Waatea News recently that the deputy PM doesn’t think politicians should change election rules without a public vote, and am expecting that Act will withdraw its support for restrictions on voter registration any day now thespinoff.co.nz/politics/01-...

Really big day for our nation's headline writers

A public service announcement about why you shouldn’t defame a lawyer

as reported in webworm today, the nz media council has ruled against RNZ, saying it lacked balance and fairness in its reporting over the death of trans teen alex. hopefully this encourages RNZ to look at all their reporting on trans issues - they need to (www.webworm.co/trainhopping/)

Personally think we should consider making this not just the way it is

“There is a 0% chance that Peters’ admonishment of the vast majority of UN member states, and continued delay in NZ’s own action, will have any impact on how they take their own stands. There is a 100% chance that it will be remembered as the time New Zealand punched above its weight in cowardice.”😔

Always wondered why it was not in supermarkets. @haydendonnell.bsky.social

Feel like our priorities on what's urgent may be a bit skewed

The people who spent years telling us that deplatforming was censorship and they opposed it on principle, not because they agreed with the people being deplatformed, seem to have gone awfully quiet lately

Our strongest anti-cancel culture warriors once again hard at work defending free speech

on the one hand, this sounds like it won't raise enough money for them to fund meaningful tax relief for the people struggling the most with the cost of living, but on the other it will be ruthlessly attacked and exploited by their political opponents

go for my amazing feature image design skills, stay for an in-depth discussion of infrastructure thespinoff.co.nz/politics/12-...

First day back at The Spinoff but the damn mayor is stealing all my story ideas

Final team meeting for Mediawatch. Gonna miss this guy!!

pointing out the housing "wealth effect" our commentators and politicians are pining for comes with a corresponding "I'm on the bones of my arse" effect for everyone who doesn't own housing thespinoff.co.nz/society/26-0...

"These concerns are notable for being what scientists would term 'total bullshit'." Love this from @haydendonnell.bsky.social :)

The lecture I delivered in Ponsonby last night wasn't universally well-received

a response to Christine Fletcher and Troy Churton's thing in the Herald last week. These people always say the Unitary Plan zoned for enough housing without mentioning all that housing is in Te Atatu and Milldale. They can't keep getting away with this! thespinoff.co.nz/politics/04-...

Wow huge news in today's Media Insider, though I have to say it’s a real indictment on RNZ Mediawatch's @haydendonnell.bsky.social that he didn't get this scoop

I have written about what scientists are calling the "fundamental rootedness" at the heart of our society thespinoff.co.nz/society/29-0...

if we're excluding voters for thinking the wrong way about tax or not being engaged enough in politics, why stop with just the ones who enrol on election day thespinoff.co.nz/politics/28-...

Grok has once again gone Woke