No Right Turn

Another day, another piece about the problems of Labour's "small target" strategy. Today its The Spinoff 's Joel MacManus,...

Ten weeks till the election, and Labour is in full pre-election cringe mode. They're so afraid of being seen to stand for something, let...

Today, the Privileges Committee found that MBIE chief executive Nic Blakeley and former Deputy Secretary of Immigration Alison McDonald del...

Local government in Aotearoa is in a crisis. For decades, Boomers have voted to Keep Rates Low, running the infrastructure paid for by previ...

Yesterday the National Party introduced its bill to ban young people from social media to Parliament. While ostensibly about "protecti...

Eleven weeks till the election, and we're now seeing daily stories about the complete collapse of the health system. Decades of austerit...

Twenty years ago I joined a protest march over the Manawatū River. Fonterra and local farmers were using the river as a sewer , making it o...

Up until the 2023 election Aotearoa had an effective school lunch program. Kids got fed on locally-produced food, improving educational and ...

National's corrupt Muldoonist fast-track legislation has a problem: in addition to being corrupt and Muldoonist, it allows developers to...

Last year, at the behest of its Five Eyes "allies", the regime passed a tyrannical anti-"foreign interference" law , cri...

This morning one of my bleeps took one for the team and asked to be convinced not to vote for Opportunity . Like me, they're a long-time...

The Lebanese parliament has voted to abolish the death penalty : Lebanon's parliament has voted to abolish the death penalty, a move th...

So, after a three hour emergency caucus meeting, Chris Luxon has emerged to claim that he has the National Party's full support and that...

Its 88 days until the election, and I had been planning to post about how the electoral landscape is becoming a little clearer. While the p...

Politicians defend their practice of taking huge bribes from the rich in the form of election "donations" by saying that its all o...

How do you have an emissions trading scheme when there are no permits to emit? That's a question Aotearoa is eventually going to have t...

The National party in Aotearoa has always hated democracy. In the late 70's and early 80's they retained power in the face of majo...

Today is a Member's day, though likely to be a boring one. First up there's the second readings of a couple of private bills: the Ōt...

The June labour market statistics are out, showing unemployment has risen again to 5.6%. There are now 171,000 unemployed, 49,000 more than...

Over the weekend The Post had a piece about Nazis finding a home in NZ First . The initial article exposed two "Remigration NZ" a...