No Right Turn

How bad are things under the Luxon regime? We already knew that we had the worst wage growth in the world , with wages 6.4% below 2021 leve...

Aotearoa has a problem: the rich don't pay their fair share . They benefit from our society: the state protects their wealth and provide...

Last year, the regime rammed through the Equal Pay Amendment Act under urgency, gutting pay equity laws, dumping all claims, and stealing $1...

There's been some stuff over the last few weeks about how MP's high salaries and extensive perks put them out of touch with normal p...

Since time immemorial - or at least the 1990's - the National party's Big Economic Idea was cuts. Slash the state! Sack people! Give...

Albert Einstein reportedly said that insanity was doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. And that's basica...

RNZ has polling today on taxing billionaires , and its not good for the plutocrats: The second poll commissioned in February 2026 revealed...

National's core promise as a government is to be "better economic managers" (meaning: bald men in blue suits). And they made s...

Aotearoa is broken. The economy is fucked. The dogshit vandal regime is smashing our democracy, our public services, and our society, while ...

Remember when Bill English called prisons "a moral and fiscal failure" ? It was an example of his cautious conservativism, a recog...

Yesterday, when talking about his proposed capital gains tax, Labour leader Chris Hipkins pointed out an unpleasant truth about the Prime Mi...

So, Labour has finally, shambolically, released its capital gains tax policy , and as signalled it is a weak extension of the bright-line te...

That is the only way to describe the regime's sudden policy to apply a parental income test to 18 and 19 year old jobseekers . Legally t...

When the regime was elected, they claimed to have a laser focus on bringing down the cost of living . So how's that working out for them...

On Saturday, the Herald 's Thomas Coughlan reported that Labour was inching its way to a capital gains tax. But in typical Labour fashio...

The regime's austerity has resulted in a perfect storm of industrial action: primary teachers , secondary teachers , and nurses have al...

National came to power in part because it promised to reduce the cost of living of ordinary New Zealadners. But two years in, the reality is...

The central refrain of this regime has been "we can't afford it". They're constantly pleading poverty over public services...

Butter has become a flashpoint in the cost-of-living crisis, with the price of the baking staple doubling in the last 14 months , and people...

The health insurance industry is parasitic on our public health system, taking people's money, providing them with th easy, cheap stuff,...