Kia ora Ōtautahi Christchurch the Christchurch City Council & Trees For Canterbury are giving away free native trees for Matariki! On a cold blustery night the team is here on Worcester Boulevard til 8.30pm tonight and Friday & Saturday night! Mānawatia Matariki. 🌟

Another round of infrastructure-destroying storms. Not even a few months after the last round of destructive storms. These rain events are quarterly now. But no one in politics or media is prepared to say it

RIP Bonne Tyler. Died in hospital at age 75YO following an illness 😢 Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart (Turn Around) 💖 😇 youtu.be/lcOxhH8N3Bo

Waiting for Luxon to claim production credits for the OCR rise, plus the ones to come..

It's BinTime!

Good night

You may have wondered about exactly who was behind this week's spectacular GiveALittle appeal to save Neck of the Woods. This excellent Rolling Stone NZ story has all you need to know. au.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

This is Holly. Every day for the past 5 years, she picks out a stick and brings it to her favorite spot for “zen time.” While her stick may change, her routine never does. 13/10 (IG: hollythebluestaffy)

Is "Jam Tomorrow" solar warrior Simeon Brown just as irksome as ever or maybe gone up a notch or two on the dorky pest scale?

What's a cool poetry magazine/platform to publish in? In New Zealand and elsewhere? Asking for me.

Kamikaze conservatives. A rare sighting.

I was writing "Winston holds the balance of power" stories last century. It seems at times to be an eternal headline.Far from convinced TOP would be a refreshing change of flavour.

If I had control of Labour's ad budget I'd blow half of it on spots featuring Luxon's dumbest hits and asking "Can you take 3 more years of this?"

Unholy water

Solstice blessings to you who feel the season's pulse.

Simeon Brown's at the full on purge stage of political rot now.

🚨BREAKING: DONALD TRUMP HAS FALLEN ASLEEP AT HIS 80TH BIRTHDAY UFC FREEDOM 250 EVENT.

Nobody will be more horrified about Matthew Hooton as new Post editor than Christopher Luxon.

The trouble with having a vacuum where a PM normally fits is that it empowers the ambitious, but unable, like Nicola Willis to try and fill the space.

If Nicola Willis is so desperate for attention she's calling a press conference on a Sunday afternoon and dragging press gallery reporters in on their weekend it better be a fucking emergency! It's not? It's just a whinge session? Call it what it is, NZ media! And call out this bullshit.

I came to political campaign management via journalism and before that advertising.Decider votes come from feelings, and large print.Policy details run a poor third.

Council amalgamations , or not, are far too important to be used as an election distraction by the Coalition Government.

Time to reflag the NZ Coalition Government as The Pillage People.

Saw one of David Hockney's polaroid exhibits here in ChCh years ago and knew then he was a unique talent.88's a good innings, especially for a proudly overt gay man of his generation.

When yet another idiot neighbour decides to get a dog for company for their barking dog.Hard to stay optimistic about humanity sometimes.

Tory pivot day.From "Labour don't offer any policy!" to "Not good policy for the poors!"

Amazed to see top cops, and Minister, trying to take the high moral ground so soon after the lid's been lifted on very immoral behaviour from last crop of top cops.

About 48/72 hours after any surgery I fall off a cliff emotionally.Anyone else?

Trump's White House is a cross between Weekend At Bernie's and the Bates Mote.l

FORTY PERCENT experiencing food insecurity in Waikato, more than two-thirds of whom are working families. Absolutely shameful. #NZpol 'Social supermarket' for Hamilton follows surge in food insecurity. www.rnz.co.nz/news/communi...

Raising a glass of clean water to a historic win for People over Big Agriculture

Bluesky vanished from here for a few days but now appears to be back.Anyone else?

The Budget? About as blamey, banal and mean spirited as expected.A surplus? Will find it many fathoms down after the Trump Slump kicks our already feeble economy in the guts.

Something is rotten in the House of Representatives newsroom.co.nz/2026/05/27/s...

Luxon's media monstering with John Campbell is a sign the Coalition know they are toast.Cooked by Trump which is going to be a hard sell even for their supporters.

The one airline and the one route where demand is rising. From NZers flying away for work. Must be the most expensive commute on the planet.

WINSTON WANTS TO TRANS THE KIDS

#FerryNews: New Zealand’s first hybrid-electric fast ferry designed by Incat Crowther – is scheduled to start work shortly on Auckland Harbour for Fullers360 after sea trials that exceeded expectations. Via Rivera: www.rivieramm.com/news-content...

"Keir Starmer" UK Labour now seems unable to keep power as reliably as power used to evade them.That Starmer's top of their heap is in itself part of their problem.

Trump and his fellow patrons/pirates are in for a rude shock in China when they collide with the reality their toadies keep at bay for them.

I REALLY hope there will one day be picture created that shows the whole Earth like this, where you can zoom in to street level and actually see features upside down in Australia/new Zealand. Just to mess with the flat earthers!

John Curtis corrects BBC narrative. Greens, not Reform taking Labour votes & seats. Reform taking Tory votes. Good people: don’t despair- this isn’t a bad morning; the game is still on. To continue the Green surge support, join, vote @greenparty.org.uk . If you already do, consider monthly donation.

Before you buy into Winston's putting the boot into Luxon's pension pinching plans consider this - the Coalition is the three headed monster they like to warn about.Aside of a few huge egos most of the troops just want the power and preferment of Government. This is scripted performance art.

“Politically expedient" and "democratically indefensible." Scrapping Broadcasting Standards Authority will hit standards, experts say #journalism #democracy www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

The ever great Jane Kelsey's done a great unpicking of the NZ/Iidia FTA in Stuff. I'm cooling on it fast.Training up rivals is always a bad career move.

Axing the BSA is a Magna Carta for the mendacious and vicious.

A month on from dental surgery to defang my lower jaw I can report nobody actually notices no teeth.Maybe we're all much less fascinating than we think?

See the Back on Track gang offering Councils 3 months to sort out their futures.Given the failures on many fronts from this Govt with nearly 3 years it seems beyond hypocritical.

Me and S stopped smoking 25 year's ago today on May 4.

Beltane boogie to all who hear the moon howl on this high holy night.