Shane Jones called a trade deal with India a "butter chicken tsunami" this week. So here's Taika Waititi from 2017, still relevant, still necessary. Give nothing to racism. 🎬 youtu.be/g9n_UPyVR5s

Luxon cancelled Breakfast over TVNZ staff conduct. Hosking named 5 National MPs as disloyal leakers on air. All of them say it's rubbish and fake news. One of those MPs has a formal Media Council complaint pending. Will Luxon cancel his appearance on Hosking's show?

Luxon cancelled Breakfast after 3 cheeky interviews with Tova O'Brien. Ardern cancelled Newstalk ZB after ~49 hostile interviews with Hosking — four years of being called dangerous, narcissistic, and a control freak. These two things are not the same. open.substack.com/pub/wonderou...

The problem is about distance, not competence. substack.com/@wonderoutlo...

Why is Jacinda Ardern such a threat to so many right wing men? open.substack.com/pub/wonderou...

Heading into 2026, I’m wishing for politics with less performative certainty, and more authentic care - from politicians, journalists, and all of us.🐎 2026, let’s get the horse back in the stable. Happy 2026. wonderoutloud.substack.com/p/getting-th...

Polls bounce. Trust sticks. Who's got it in 2025. Who lost it? And where is it wobbly? wonderoutloud.substack.com/p/a-trust-sn...

Love this. This is normal America.

@clrenney.bsky.social how are under-employed hours counted? I am only employed for 15 hours a week - would like to work full-time, but I don't think I am showing in any data because I do not qualify for government support. I imagine there are many like me in a similar boat?

How to Cook Hot Potato Surprise. My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol #CappedRates #Rates

Let's roll up our sleeves and get involved - whether Labour or the Greens (or TPM or TOP). If you want better messaging or more visibility on social media or whatever, then join your local branch, offer your skills, volunteer, donate etc. Send your local lefty MPs positive & encouraging messages.

Changing this govt will require all of us ordinary ppl to find a way to work together and build each other up and encourage each other and promote a narrative of hope and change and that another way is possible. While also disagreeing with each other 🤣 Harder, but feasible I think?

It's easy to point at each other and criticise each other for not being left enough or purist enough or good enough etc etc. Especially when we are scared and worried and desperately afraid of what another 3 years of NACT will mean for us all.

Top tip for National for 2026: You got elected on promising to fix the economy and the cost of living crisis. Stop blaming Labour, and just get on with it. Less moaning, and more doing.

When one MP using ChatGPT it is “cheating”… but a whole room of staff drafting, editing, and pressure-testing questions is “just politics”. Amazing what counts as scandal when you don’t understand the tool.

David Seymour's view on democracy: Where 300 000 submissions can be ignored, while one email can spark legislative change. wonderoutloud.substack.com/p/selective-...

The government gives up the ghost on our youth and calls it policy.

Poor people just need better accountants. It works for farmers.

Gaslighting the public can only work for so long. It's time to take responsibility for the state of the economy. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

Opinion: New Zealand is punching above its weight in cowardice thespinoff.co.nz/politics/27-...

Vanessa Weenink reckons it doesn't matter if the leader of the party is not the strongest player? In theory perhaps, but in reality this is how resentment builds. www.facebook.com/share/v/1A4H...

There really isn’t any moral test that Luxon can’t fail. #nzpol

Loved this Jon Stewart and Jacinda Ardern conversation. Too many leaders weaponise fear. True leadership treats power as responsibility—to act with empathy, optimism & courage, and to improve lives. A good reminder right now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJg1...

Hey intimidating priests look at moi, look at moi...........look at moi. #nzpol

Chris Hipkins need to say yes to every interview. The more people hear him talk, the more they will like him. Kind of the opposite of the other Chris.

We are told that we should celebrate farmer success and pay extortionate prices for butter? Is it fair?

GDP growth doesn’t guarantee affordability, fairness, or shared wellbeing. The story of rising butter prices in a nutshell. www.canva.com/design/DAGq7...

Anne Salmond: Hayek's bastards newsroom.co.nz/2025/01/21/a...

Am I reading this wrong or are they sending a Blackwater mercenary to 'take care of' the ethnic communities, like should we be scared/arming ourselves

So I assume the new Minister of Health will be lobbying the new Minister of Transport to undo the speed limit shenanigans of the previous Minister of Transport, right?

A government that is more focused on to locking people up in prison for longer, than helping them to live productive lives, have their priorities wrong. Cutting funding to community services is expensive.

Wondering why Liberterians are always trying to call themselves anything but a Libertarian? Are they ashamed of their ideology? I have never come across progressive who do not proudly own their progressive views and work.

"A picture is worth a thousand words" #nzpol

National:2026 - Pro Bum Cancer newsroom.co.nz/2024/06/04/c... Also, nitrates increase the risk of bowel cancer newsroom.co.nz/2024/09/30/c... #NZPol #FuckWits

Deborah Hart called the situation in Gaza 'perceived wrongdoings.' Let's be clear: killing 44,835 people, including 17,492 children, isn't perceived—it's wrong. Full stop. And yes, antisemitic behavior in NZ is wrong too. Surely we can hold both truths at once? www.aljazeera.com/news/longfor...

On the Bridge of the Ferry Simulator. (When we finally get some new ferries, maybe they shouldn’t have an Autopilot, because we really can’t be trusted with an Autopilot setting) My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol #Ferries

ON QUIETLY UPPING THE I-REX FERRIES NUMBER FROM $3b to $4b: Yesterday this govt found a few words for them to use as an excuse to say i-Rex cost $4b Up until yesterday - and for a year - everyone, including this Coalition right wing, agreed on the $3b figure. Don't let it go unnoticed. #nzpol

I'm thinking about the Marsden project I'm part of, only just 8 months into our 3 years, & the data we already have on the truly f*'ing awful experiences of women leaders of online abuse & the work still to be done to help remedy that & IN WHAT GODFORSAKEN WORLD IS THAT WORK NOT OF VALUE?? #nzpol

I think New Zealand has a religious disagreement with Christopher Luxon. He thinks he's God, and we disagree.😕

Government waste #cartoon #nzpol #repost

Researchers pen scathing open letter to Minister over Marsden Fund changes "I find it immensely ironic that the Minister is basing this decision on its benefit to the economy, when the study of the economy is itself classed as a social science."

Did I hear the Mainfreight managing director say "Everything seems to take longer with this government."? I thought business confidence is up? #NZPol

Thanks to the team who put this important piece together so Rutherford Discovery Fellows could unite in their opposition to the Marsden Fund changes.

What an appalling minister he is. It's a very bad sign that coalition members are tossing around 'woke' as a pejorative. It's up there with snowflake and virtue signalling as a marker of sneering right wing rejection of basic decency. #nzpol

So Te Whatu Ora is canned after a year for so-called failing to deliver but this ferry announcement after a year is professed to be a success. Yeah, right. #nzpol

I really don't know why people keep voting for Winston Peters. He clearly hates his job. Put him out of his misery.

Winston Peters is just exhausting to listen to. Argh!