Wednesday morning ritual of throwing things at the radio. The nails down the blackboard tones and condescending lies of Nicola Willis.

On the lowering of the Clean Car Standard, right after COP30. My #cartoon today #NZpol #CleanCarStandard #Emissions #FossilFuels

Some political parties will literally disestablish entire layers of local government rather than go to therapy (for their entrenched racism)

Why do we have Bellamys & Pint of Order but no safety net for people?

This feels incredibly shortsighted and reckless. Has Bishop considered how much it costs to operate fire fighting services at the nation's airports? Planes almost never crash or catch fire here.

I'm old enough to remember when National campaigned HARD against centralism, as it stirred up racist sentiment to kill Labour's Affordable Water Reform initiative #nzpol

RIP JIMMY CLIFF 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

The Cook Islands allowed over a hundred shadow fleet tankers trafficking sanctioned Russian and Iranian oil. A Big Read from me looking at the curious case of Maritime Cook Islands with an investigation employing big data analysis and fieldwork in Raro. www.nzherald.co.nz/business/com...

My dad who had as accurate personal radar as @foxylustygrover.bsky.social 's dad didn't trust Andrew Little from day one. I thought he was being harsh but he wasn't. Little only got one thing right, standing down as leader, as I'm not convinced it was entirely his call.

More critical investigations into this government’s despicable behaviour, from @kirstyjohnston.bsky.social and colleagues: www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

So how's the AI going?

Maybe Mitchell can update his Osmonds catchphrase from One Bad Apple to Crazy Forces. I'll get my coat.

A movie that takes place where you are from Born Live

🎵Oh my father's father's father's father By nature he was bendy We are the chi chine tribe And we are over friendly🎵

Sorry to rain on the outrage parade but seriously, at the core of all of this is a fundamental distrust in MMP Treating electorate MPs as "real MPs" vs list MPs as "not really elected" is a framing that undermines proportional representation Stop bloody buying into it

Interesting to see what washes up on the beach…

A tūturiwhatu (New Zealand dotterel) with breakfast. 🪶🇳🇿

Copenhagen giving a real world example of the failure of aping far-right policies. "After more than a decade taking the wrong lessons from Denmark, it is finally time to learn the right lesson: copying the far right not only fails to turn on far-right voters, it also turns off progressive voters."

Would be no surprise if Toyota had tried the same thing in Aotearoa. Chris Bishop and his reversal of clean car measures would suit them.

A curlew sandpiper at Bald Hill Beach from last year. These migratory birds returned recently from Siberia. Listed as critically endangered, though we seem to have good numbers here in South Australia. There is concern about food supply given the current toxic algal bloom but so far, so good.

These guys are dangerous idiots. It's tiresome enough already having to read, and re-check, the labels on everything that I eat, and now they want to have me scan a QR code to get to that information.

Finally, a politician who's brave enough to say it. America is an ally to no-one but itself anymore. Time to cut ties and forge ahead with your own path I'm just so tired of the fawning to power

It's always the ones you most expect... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Doctors and parents should make decisions about what it best for their kids' health - not politicians.

Caption competition

Wait - so politicos argue it's not okay for Mariameno Kapa-Kingi to employ her son in her office, so is it really okay for Minita Mitchell to employ his sister as a staffer?

Embattled loser giving lame ducks a bad name. "Asked about suggestions Luxon could be replaced as National leader by Leader of the House Chris Bishop before Christmas, Peters said that was a National Party issue. "You’re not going to get me, or any of my colleagues, involved in that.“"

My “my coalition isn’t falling apart” tshirt has a lot of people asking questions already answered by my tshirt

Attn #nzpol new Hamish Price shoes just dropped

Mitchell's pack of lies about the emails is starting to unravel. "He has also maintained that the 36 complaint emails sent to him were diverted by police staff seconded to his ministerial office under a protocol set by Coster, meaning neither he nor his political advisers saw them." (1/3)

In today’s NZ Herald #nzpolitics

Simon Watts says he announced back on Oct 12 that the Govt would reject the Climate Commission's advice to have a carbin negative 2050 target. That surprised many, including, presumably, Simon Watts, who on Oct 14 told me that announcement would come "in due course". newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/21/c...

And the Salesman of the Year is…. My #Stuff Cartoon today #Infrastructure #ferries #NZpol

gf's conservative, catholic father came home from work at the railways joinery workshop, chch, years ago in a happy mood. said he had a visitor, seemed familiar but couldn't place her. then she told him ' I was John, your apprentice'. then he clicked. 'so nice of her to come and see me.'

Yes, yes ... of course we can have complete confidence in the report findings of this inquiry set up for nakedly partisan purposes, given terms of reference designed to avoid criticism of a currently-governing party, and from which multiple professionals have run a mile. Why on earth would you ask?

Exceptionally bad headline. Doubling the number in training doesn’t double the number of clinical psychologists. And getting them into and through the education program does not mean there are enough internship places to qualify more clinical psychologists.

Has Brownlee banned the onsite parliament pub because that can influence decisions and voting. #nzpol

Winston doing a lot of unmasking the bad people.

Everything ok at the Covid Inquiry?

This article is here and has very good analysis.

Jonathan Milne on the ferrys - "It's half-baked, because Peters has commissioned the new ferries, but hasn't yet commissioned the new berths and terminals to accommodate them. And as former minister Grant Robertson and KiwiRail could tell you, that was always the pricy part. " (1/2)

On Morning Report, Costello said "And the evidence that reduced nicotine levels is effective? There is no evidence." www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa... That statement is completely incorrect. There are randomised controlled trials that show the opposite.

The Post is free today! If you’ve ever wanted a look behind the paywall, today is the day. I’ll link some great pieces in this thread:

hoot hoot hooray

"When it came to Covid, we completely blew out what the value of a life was, completely, I've never seen such a high value on life.” - Brooke van Velden

What kind of absolute monster says this to the Pike River families

Interesting poll on Newsroom about asset sales, the voters most against it are NZ First. Even 38% of ACT voters think asset sales went too far, compared to only 27% who disagreed. Going to be a hard sell for the already hated Luxon.