“this order is perhaps the clearest signal yet of how the US government and Silicon Valley are one and the same and European liberal democracies are now the enemy”

Straight up, this is good - makes me thing about going back to Auckland to live www.1of200.nz/articles/wha...

This is what inadequate health funding does. Not viable for the commercial sector so Oto locals now have to go to Te Kuiti or Te Awamutu - if they can get an appointment - for X-rays... Klown govt making it harder and harder for small towns and rural areas...

How did a far-right politician who admires the Pinochet dictatorship get elected president of Chile? It was partly because the country's center-left "turned its back on the troubles of the people," says Chilean American author Ariel Dorfman.

It seems incomprehensible that anyone would want to destroy our health system, but these people don’t consider it to be their health system. It’s a health system for poor people.

Wellington Phoenix claim biggest win with rout of Sydney FC

Jeremy Coney with a classic yarn from a classic test #cricket www.facebook.com/reel/2076070...

Court orders Corrections boss to stop breaking the law newsroom.co.nz/2025/12/18/h...

Canadian billionaire, and would-be media mogul, unmasked as driving force behind evangelist's legal bid to take down TVNZ. The news comes days after homegrown billionaires, behind the Talleys empire, failed in their defamation case against the national broadcaster thespinoff.co.nz/media/16-12-...

Predictably uninspiring #nzpol

Govt to rush climate target change through Parliament under urgency newsroom.co.nz/2025/12/10/g...

Apparently, they consider 32 years long enough to wipe the public memory. This is the same Ruth Richardson who entrenched child poverty and homelessness in a previously egalitarian country

Why doesn't TVNZ's business reporter just go on the National Party payroll and be done with it? Last night's puff piece on the far-reaching RMA rewrite was a disgrace #nzpol Also, where is Chris Hipkins?

"Executive overreach for which no case has been made" newsroom.co.nz/2025/12/05/e...

Jared Kushner getting fat off his billion dollar pork pie popular.info/p/kushners-m...

#FMD newsroom.co.nz/2025/12/04/g...

Head Scratching - why mine when you could slash power bills? newsroom.co.nz/2025/12/03/w...

Analysis: Meeting the Paris target without offshore purchasing would require the emissions equivalent of five GFCs – something the Government will not undertake.

Government failure - by the numbers #nzpol thespinoff.co.nz/society/03-1...

The Hesketh Murders popular.info/p/department...

Specifically, he claims to be "restoring accountability", while actually removing independent oversight in favour of a powerless committee he appoints himself.

@nznationalparty.bsky.social @actpartynz.bsky.social @nzfirst.bsky.social NO to asset sales NO to privatisation NO to PPPs NO to road tolls NO to RSA NO to Fast Track NO to Charter Schools & new curriculum NO to AUKUS YES to Te Tiriti, pay equity, full funding of public health education & services

Just like the ferries. We have to invest in water management because it’s suffered from decades of underinvestment and neglect, but now that National sank Three Waters, it’s going to cost us a lot more.

“We do not buy bananas, toilet paper, nappies – we buy asphalt, steel and concrete … those inflationary increases and those specific projects don’t always, don’t always align with what we see with normal household CPI.” - Rehette Stoltz, Gisborne Mayor and LGNZ vice-president.

Christopher Luxon confirms "we will be getting rid of regional councillors" only weeks after New Zealanders voted those councillors in. Another example of his govt forcing territorial authorities to spend large sums of money & then scapegoating them for spending money #nzpol

Trump interferes in Honduran election www.dw.com/en/honduras-...

Very worrying. Hopefully, won't end up chanting the Australian Labor slogan - we are all Tories now! #nzpol newsroom.co.nz/2025/12/01/w...

Definitely not a place you want to move to.

Interesting introduction to important issue but, fact is, New Zealand cannot just repurpose Australian Super and, with benefit of hindsight, would not want to, for reasons of equity #nzpol newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/25/m...

Minister for Lowering Standards. #NzPol

This article misses the point - the formal Coalition Agreement sets out to subvert MMP. It also sidelines Parliament, reducing it to a rubber stamp for the executive. It is fundamentally anti-democratic, a point the Regulatory Standards vote illustrates #nzpol thespinoff.co.nz/politics/28-...

"In July, Attorney-General Judith Collins found the bill to be inconsistent with the Bill of Rights Act, and indicated 100,000 or more people could be directly or indirectly disenfranchised by the rules banning enrolment in the final 13 days before an election."

Man who died after being pepper sprayed 'deserved humanity and protection'

Radical suggestion - what about a train people can afford? www.odt.co.nz/star-news/st...

What disguise? This is a backflip on their commitment to regionalism, and opens the potential for this Coalition to drive more of its agenda over the top of local communities #nzpol Also, as a matter of interest, where is the Labour bloke? thespinoff.co.nz/the-bulletin...

"Disturbing snapshot" of how Wellingtonians are being screwed by a government determined to privatise healthcare #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Here we go again ... IRD steps up for another meaningless dance with Destiny newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/25/i...

#nzpol The minimum wage increased by 1.5% this year. Data today from Stats NZ shows annual increases of: - Food prices up 4.7% - Fruit up 11% - Beef up 17.4%, Lamb up 32.2% - Bread up 11.4% - Cheese up 14.8% - Eggs up 16.2% - Electricity up 11.8% Laser-focused on the cost of living

I wonder if Geoffrey could walk slowly, and quietly, into the night? thespinoff.co.nz/politics/18-...

A cow of a joint thespinoff.co.nz/society/18-1...

Moreover, these hideous monstrosities do not meet passenger car safety standards.

True to form, Saudis chop the heads off any meaningful climate change agreements www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

The cult of the CEO #TheBludgingClasses

Actually: "There's a lot of concern among our members that we're heading towards a duopoly like the supermarkets in primary healthcare, and we want to see the settings changed to prevent that because it's not good for consumers." Not breakaway, just not Tend or Green Cross. #NZhealth

Trump quietly raises White Flag after it become obvious his policies were screwing ordinary Americans where it hurts - at the grocery shop #LiberationDay www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...

Here is the theory behind the Regulatory Standards Act (the primacy of private property) explained in real-world practise #nzpol doctorow.medium.com/for-profit-h...

ANZ Antonia goes the pork #nzpol newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/12/a...

Meta trousers billions of dollars a year from scammers, and knows it. Stunning revelations from Reuters that should curl the toes of Facebook, WhatsApp or Instagram users www.reuters.com/investigatio...

I went through life and mainly a LW govt not complaining where my tax was spent as long as EVERYONE in NZ benefits from it But now paying tax to a donor corrupt, climate denial govt has really pissed me off. Squandering billions on subcontracting services and support that were already set up #nzpol

The Old Masters - Luxon, Seymour and Peters - and the art of pissing away money while pretending you don't have any #nzpol thespinoff.co.nz/kai/07-11-20...