Talented kiwi musician Nancy Howie has released her annual "mystery holiday cover" and it's a magnificent cover of The Beatles' Abbey Road Medley. Nancy plays all the instruments, and mixes in multi versions of herself in the video. Check it out, watch and share. www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_GF...

www.teaonews.co.nz/2025/12/19/t... The Waitangi Tribunal has released new volume of its Te Paparahi o Te Raki inquiry finding the Crown systematically denied the tino rangatiratanga guaranteed under Te Tiriti o Waitangi by marginalising Māori authority in favour of Pākehā-led governance structures

Why Our Schools Must Keep Their Commitment to Te Tiriti o Waitangi futuremakers.nz/2025/11/04/w...

e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-... “We developed a child-centred system focused on a broad education. Māori have led the way in kaupapa Māori education... Why now, are we being asked to channel this river, to narrow it in accordance with the values and power systems of other colonial countries?”

NZ Govt plans to radically reduce the climate disclosure requirements on large companies as part of its war on the planet. And here is my timeline of the War on Nature mentioned in the article. www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto... www.thepost.co.nz/business/360...

"Belief that democracy is the form of governance best suited to the modern world is dwindling, especially among younger people. Meanwhile, the public space grows coarser and more violent." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Winston, the man of peace.

Saying your political opponents are secretly in control of violence against you is a crazy thing to say! That is not typical of the level of rhetoric in this country and media outlets treating like that isn't a huge escalation is really worrying, actually!

If your "structured literacy approach" with its "phonics sequencing and decoding suitability" cannot accommodate a handful of commonly-used words of te reo Māori YOUR APPROACH IS NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Chris Bishop is trying to change the regulations to allow cattle to graze in wetlands and allow quarry companies to dig up wetlands. Less than 10% of original wetlands remain in NZ. I think I know what Don McGlashan would say.

Next Expert witness in the WAI3470 Urgent inquiry into the RSB. Chelsea Winstanley!

Laminated sign at this hospital’s ward entrance.

www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360... "...unlike households, countries don’t die, retire, or ever really pay back their debt ... the gvt knows there’s nothing similar between household borrowing and government borrowing. So why use this metaphor if it’s so misleading? Because it’s the language of fear."

I am sick and tired of the Winstonifcation of this country #NZPol

For those confused by the China tariff news: • Trump caved and got zero in return • No manufacturing moved back to the USA • 30% tariff is still a huge tax on Americans • 90 day pause still causes uncertainty • Trump lost all negotiating leverage

Breaking: Man Upset Woman Has Ambition

@mikeelgan.bsky.social this is how AI might destroy society - idiots using LLM to decide how to set global tariffs. Anti science anti expert pro search it up. youtube.com/shorts/yiX4h...

@jeffjarvis.bsky.social As we all knew it was never going to be autonomous AI that threatened global safety, but the fools who rely on it and aren’t smart enough to recognise the dangers.

What a fool

www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic... RNZ does a great job of fact checking Winston

Lunch sorted #marmite

Has #NZ foreign policy really come to this? A foreign minister travelling to Trump Administration in DC to ask “what they want of us”. This is self-abasement at a level not seen since the Muldoon years & deeply injurious to NZ’s independent foreign policy: www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

Come on down to the White House Tesla Auto Mall!

www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3606... “We need to change the national conversation before it is too late and we lose more of the key elements of the independence of advice and thought … that lie at the heart of liberal democracy.”

Ha!

#BHN Tonight at 9pm - Chippy on whether Labour will push a CGT next election - More Māori and Pasifika will die under Simeon's new bowel cancer screening - Sam Seder on Jubilee exposes conservative brain worms - Medhi Hasan on whataboutisms #nzpol @chewienz.bsky.social youtube.com/live/C2atMVX...

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

Anne Salmond: To lecture us on Te Tiriti, you must first be able to read it newsroom.co.nz/2025/03/06/a...

another chunk from today's post — thanks for reading! link to the whole thing is here: bit.ly/3Xu8DXd

Honestly this is so fucking funny "I can no longer be a member of this Tribunal after four months because I suddenly realised what it does"

"This knowledge rich curriculum will link Erica Stanford to Peter Fraser. His commitment in the 1940s to prescribed subject content laid the foundation for the first-rate education system enjoyed by the post-war generation" The future is post war. Jeez. www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/dr-eliz...

This is a beautifully done extended interview that captures the excitement and dignity of a small remote community with a very exciting archaeological find 🧪🇳🇿

Lots of "Very Serious People" don't want to admit what is plain and obvious and in front of our eyes and explains so much: Donald Trump and Elon Musk are two of the most ignorant and uninformed people to ever be allowed near public office anywhere in the western world. It's obvious to all of us.

Guardian: “In this new world where the foreign policy of the most powerful country on Earth has been rapidly reorganised around the fragile ego of a sullen and resentful old man…” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

In entirely unsurprising news, the bunch of weirdos the government appointed to rewrite the curriculum turns out to be hopelessly shit at its job. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Classic!

In today’s NZ Herald #tariffs #luxon

“The Treaty / Te Tiriti being protected in New Zealand's laws and constitution” was supported by 81% of business managers/executives, 88% of teachers, nurses, police… horizonpoll.co.nz/page/711/90-...

He’s 53 years old, people. Sick puppy.

Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism (w/ Yanis Varoufakis) Varoufakis argues we are now in servitude to the fiefdoms of our new global masters - Zuckerberg, Musk, etc - and the world is grappling with an entirely new economic system and therefore political power www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZDh...

I think Americans, blessed with relatively stable government for a long time, assume there is someone, some adult, who will step in and make things right before the President does anything REALLY bad. There’s not.

Imagining how we'd cover overseas what's happening to the U.S. right now. Musk's Junta Establishes Him as Head of Government … www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...

Finished copy of my new book is here and I am very chuffed with the cover. It's out on Feb 27th at A*azon, Waterstones and all the other places or - if you want a signed and personalised copy - contact Barnes Bookshop who will sort it barnesbookshop.com

it's not hyperbolic to say we're witnessing a coup.

“New Zealand’s flirtation with neoliberalism since the 1980s has encouraged high-handed, self-serving behaviour among some politicians, ramming through policies that are not supported by the electorate, and pandering to wealthy elites.” newsroom.co.nz/2025/02/01/h...