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Hooton calls Luxon a ‘national security threat’ who will lose National the next election How can we criticise Putin and not Trump? BREAKING – NEW ROY MORGAN POLL: The Right drop hard – TOP on verge… War on Iran is an illegal and murderous adventure that must be stopped GUEST BLOG: Mick Hall – Five Eyes on Iran Welfare sanctions don’t work – all they do is increase child poverty The Bradbury Group with Barbara Edmonds + Matthew Hooton, Simon Wilson and Matthew Tukaki… Luxon’s trainwreck interview defending invasion of Iran Why are we privatising ECE when we should be nationalising it? WAATEA NEWS COLUMN: As Trump bombs Iran, why would we hand over our biometrics?
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  • Hooton calls Luxon a ‘national security threat’ who will lose National the next election
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    Hooton calls Luxon a ‘national security threat’ who will lose National the next election

    ByMartyn Bradbury 4 March 2026

    On last nights ‘The Bradbury Group’, political commentator Matthew Hooton said that Prime Minister Chris Luxon was going to lose National the 2026 election and that after his disastrous interviews on New Zealand’s position over Iran that he actually poses a ‘national security threat’. Hooton made the comparison based on something he had read from Midnight-Oil-front-man-turned-politician, Peter Garret, who wrote…

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  • How can we criticise Putin and not Trump?

    How can we criticise Putin and not Trump?

    Fresh from military action in Gaza (where their war crimes were so extreme they technically breached Genocide thresholds), America and…

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  • BREAKING – NEW ROY MORGAN POLL: The Right drop hard – TOP on verge of threshold break through!

    BREAKING – NEW ROY MORGAN POLL: The Right drop hard – TOP on verge of threshold break through!

    National tumble 3.5% in the latest Roy Morgan Poll while the Greens bounce 4% up! National – 31 Labour –…

    Read More BREAKING – NEW ROY MORGAN POLL: The Right drop hard – TOP on verge of threshold break through!Continue

  • War on Iran is an illegal and murderous adventure that must be stopped

    War on Iran is an illegal and murderous adventure that must be stopped

    The attack on Iran by the US Trump regime and the Israeli apartheid regime are war crimes that threaten another economic…

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Setting the Agenda

  • War on Iran is an illegal and murderous adventure that must be stopped
    CTF | Featured | Mike Treen | Most Recent Blogs | Setting The Agenda

    War on Iran is an illegal and murderous adventure that must be stopped

    ByMike Treen 4 March 20264 March 2026

    The attack on Iran by the US Trump regime and the Israeli apartheid regime are war crimes that threaten another economic and humanitarian crisis. The only beneficiaries will be the oligarchy that rules the United States empire for their own domination…

    Read More War on Iran is an illegal and murderous adventure that must be stoppedContinue

  • Ben Morgan’s Pacific Brief: The evolution of land forces in the Pacific: Part Three – Exercise Hedgehog 2025 – Why it matters for land warfare in the Pacific?

    Ben Morgan’s Pacific Brief: The evolution of land forces in the Pacific: Part Three – Exercise Hedgehog 2025 – Why it matters for land warfare in the Pacific?

    ByBen Morgan 3 March 20263 March 2026

    New technology is changing land combat and last year several NATO armies got an important ‘wake up’ call during Estonia’s…

    Read More Ben Morgan’s Pacific Brief: The evolution of land forces in the Pacific: Part Three – Exercise Hedgehog 2025 – Why it matters for land warfare in the Pacific?Continue

  • The Need For Schools to Develop Creativity

    The Need For Schools to Develop Creativity

    ByAllan Alach 28 February 20262 March 2026

    Are New Zealand schools narrowing education to basics? Why creativity, arts education, and imagination are essential for children’s future success.

    Read More The Need For Schools to Develop CreativityContinue

  • Epstein files flooding the zone and rewriting history

    Epstein files flooding the zone and rewriting history

    ByTim Selwyn 24 February 20262 March 2026

    As Epstein disclosures resurface in 2026, the real story may be institutional trust, media fragmentation and the battle over elite accountability.

    Read More Epstein files flooding the zone and rewriting historyContinue

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TDB Poll of Polls

Based on 4 polls, latest: 2 March 2026

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Deconstructing the Headlines

  • Hooton calls Luxon a ‘national security threat’ who will lose National the next election

    Hooton calls Luxon a ‘national security threat’ who will lose National the next election

    ByMartyn Bradbury 4 March 2026

    On last nights ‘The Bradbury Group’, political commentator Matthew Hooton said that Prime Minister Chris Luxon was going to lose National the 2026 election and that after his disastrous interviews on New Zealand’s position over Iran that he actually poses a ‘national security threat’. Hooton made the comparison based on…

    Read More Hooton calls Luxon a ‘national security threat’ who will lose National the next electionContinue

  • How can we criticise Putin and not Trump?

    How can we criticise Putin and not Trump?

    ByMartyn Bradbury 4 March 2026

    Fresh from military action in Gaza (where their war crimes were so extreme they technically breached Genocide thresholds), America and Israel have just assassinated the group picking the next Ayatollah after murdering the Ayatollah… Israel Attacks Clerical Body Meant to Choose Iran’s Next Leader The Israeli military appeared to attack…

    Read More How can we criticise Putin and not Trump?Continue

  • BREAKING – NEW ROY MORGAN POLL: The Right drop hard – TOP on verge of threshold break through!

    BREAKING – NEW ROY MORGAN POLL: The Right drop hard – TOP on verge of threshold break through!

    ByMartyn Bradbury 4 March 20264 March 2026

    National tumble 3.5% in the latest Roy Morgan Poll while the Greens bounce 4% up! National – 31 Labour – 30 Greens – 14.5 NZF – 9 ACT – 8 MP – 2.5 BUT LOOK AT THIS! TOP – 4% That is game changer territory. As I have argued, TOP…

    Read More BREAKING – NEW ROY MORGAN POLL: The Right drop hard – TOP on verge of threshold break through!Continue

  • Welfare sanctions don’t work – all they do is increase child poverty

    Welfare sanctions don’t work – all they do is increase child poverty

    ByMartyn Bradbury 4 March 2026

    Have benefit sanctions actually worked? Benefit sanctions have not worked – probably largely because there are not enough jobs for beneficiaries to move into, one economist says. Rob Heyes, principal consultant at Infometrics, has looked at the experience of benefit sanctions introduced in 2024. RNZ   Welfare sanctions don’t work…

    Read More Welfare sanctions don’t work – all they do is increase child povertyContinue

  • Luxon’s trainwreck interview defending invasion of Iran

    Luxon’s trainwreck interview defending invasion of Iran

    ByMartyn Bradbury 3 March 20263 March 2026

    As Middle East erupts into conflict, Christopher Luxon struggles to articulate where New Zealand stands In his response to the…

    Read More Luxon’s trainwreck interview defending invasion of IranContinue

  • Why are we privatising ECE when we should be nationalising it?

    Why are we privatising ECE when we should be nationalising it?

    ByMartyn Bradbury 3 March 20263 March 2026

    Right now any Left wing Government needs to be focused on how too use the power of the State to…

    Read More Why are we privatising ECE when we should be nationalising it?Continue

  • The reality of why Jacinda is in Australia

    The reality of why Jacinda is in Australia

    ByMartyn Bradbury 2 March 2026

    Former Prime Minister Dame Jacinda Ardern moving to Australia Dame Jacinda Ardern is moving to Australia. The news comes after…

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Media Watch

  • The Bradbury Group thumbnail 3 March 2026
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    The Bradbury Group with Barbara Edmonds + Matthew Hooton, Simon Wilson and Matthew Tukaki political panel

    ByThe Daily Blog 3 March 20264 March 2026

    A NZ Herald columnist, a Listener Columnist, a Marxist, a Māori raconteur and the Finance Spokesperson for the Labour Party  all walk into a bar. The barman looks up and says, ‘What do you think this is? The Bradbury Group?”…

    Read More The Bradbury Group with Barbara Edmonds + Matthew Hooton, Simon Wilson and Matthew Tukaki political panelContinue

  • WAATEA NEWS COLUMN: As Trump bombs Iran, why would we hand over our biometrics?

    WAATEA NEWS COLUMN: As Trump bombs Iran, why would we hand over our biometrics?

    ByMartyn Bradbury 3 March 20263 March 2026

    The timing is bad. Just as President Trump launches an illegal attack on Iran, (following his illegal kidnapping of Venezuelan President Maduro), America has threatened the 42 countries in its Visa Waiver Program to either agree with their new Enhanced Border Security…

    Read More WAATEA NEWS COLUMN: As Trump bombs Iran, why would we hand over our biometrics?Continue

  • Te Kaupapa Election ’26 – Waatea’s Weekend Political Podcast with Dale Husband, Teanau Tuiono, Georgie Dansey and Bomber Bradbury

    Te Kaupapa Election ’26 – Waatea’s Weekend Political Podcast with Dale Husband, Teanau Tuiono, Georgie Dansey and Bomber Bradbury

    ByThe Daily Blog 28 February 20262 March 2026

    Joining us this week for Te Kaupapa Election ’26 – Waatea’s Weekend Political Podcast is host Dale Husband, Green MP Teanau Teanau Tuiono, Labour MP Georgie Dansey  and Political Commentator Martyn Bradbury Move on powers Citizen arrests The report into…

    Read More Te Kaupapa Election ’26 – Waatea’s Weekend Political Podcast with Dale Husband, Teanau Tuiono, Georgie Dansey and Bomber BradburyContinue

  • MEDIAWATCH: The NZ Free Speech Union is the sound of one hand clapping

    MEDIAWATCH: The NZ Free Speech Union is the sound of one hand clapping

    ByMartyn Bradbury 27 February 202627 February 2026

    The NZ Free Speech Union is nothing but a Zionist Apologist Front that weaponises Free Speech for the right! They are part of the Taxpayers’ Union Stable of clients and are Atlas Network connected. They are bad faith actors who…

    Read More MEDIAWATCH: The NZ Free Speech Union is the sound of one hand clappingContinue

  • WAATEA NEWS COLUMN: Why Winston’s Māori Electorate Referendum is so dangerous

    WAATEA NEWS COLUMN: Why Winston’s Māori Electorate Referendum is so dangerous

    ByMartyn Bradbury 26 February 2026

    Matua Winston Peters has done a Seymour and called for a highly controversial and divisive race referendum, this time on the Māori Electorates. Matua Winston, who has run in Māori Electorates and has clean swept them for NZ First in…

    Read More WAATEA NEWS COLUMN: Why Winston’s Māori Electorate Referendum is so dangerousContinue

TDB Left News
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  • Dozens of Auckland homes compulsorily bought by council for flood relief plan
    RNZ Politics Date: 2026-03-05 By admin
  • Christopher Luxon forced into another correction over Iran war visas
    RNZ Politics Date: 2026-03-05 By admin
  • The House: What’s happening at Parliament this week
    RNZ Politics Date: 2026-03-04 By admin
  • #national: Te Ahurei Toi o Tāmaki Returns with Bold Celebration of Te Ao Māori
    Waatea Digital Date: 2026-03-04 By Dale Husband
  • #hakinakina: NZ Softball Hall of Fame: Honouring a Code Woven Deep in Māori Communities
    Waatea Digital Date: 2026-03-04 By Dale Husband
  • #national: Call for Reset in Tone as Concerns Raised Over Ministerial Rhetoric Toward Councils
    Waatea Digital Date: 2026-03-04 By Dale Husband
  • #national: Middle East Conflict Raises Questions for NZ Tourism and Travel
    Waatea Digital Date: 2026-03-04 By Dale Husband
  • #national: ACC Clawback Law Criticised as Risk to Women, Māori and Abuse Survivors
    Waatea Digital Date: 2026-03-04 By Dale Husband
  • #regional: Ūawa Community Blesses Site of New Marae After Cyclone Devastation
    Waatea Digital Date: 2026-03-04 By Dale Husband
  • #election2026: Willie Jackson Signals Fight Ahead for Māori Seats and Speaks on Global Conflict
    Waatea Digital Date: 2026-03-04 By Dale Husband
  • New Zealand not in place to make call on US strikes in Iran, Willis says
    RNZ Politics Date: 2026-03-04 By admin
  • Calamity Christopher
    Nick’s Kōrero Date: 2026-03-04 By Nick Rockel
  • Government pushes back deadline for agencies' project funding bids
    RNZ Politics Date: 2026-03-04 By admin
  • Auckland mayor objects to 'expensive' housing plan request
    RNZ Politics Date: 2026-03-04 By admin
  • #iran: Kiwis Caught in Middle East Crisis: Whānau Stranded, Workers Reconsider Overseas Futures
    Waatea Digital Date: 2026-03-04 By Matthew Tukaki
  • Government 'talking to everybody' over Kiwis caught up in Middle East war - Peters
    RNZ Politics Date: 2026-03-04 By admin
  • Global oil & gas prices surge, hammering stocks
    The Kaka with Bernard Hickey Date: 2026-03-04 By Bernard Hickey
  • Govt gets its wish from 1News – a headline on fewer crime victims
    Newsroom Date: 2026-03-04 By Tim Murphy
  • Dawn Chorus Live with Bernard Hickey
    The Kaka with Bernard Hickey Date: 2026-03-04 By Bernard Hickey
  • Ministry underestimated scale of secondary teacher shortage
    RNZ Politics Date: 2026-03-04 By admin
  • Why good people leave politics — and what it costs us
    Source: Crikey.com Date: 2026-03-05 By Jo Tarnawsky
  • New Zealand coalition votes to make English an official language as critics slam ‘cynical’ bill
    Source: The Guardian Date: 2026-03-04 By Eva Corlett in Wellington
  • Craig Murray: The War for Greater Israel
    Source: Consortium News Date: 2026-03-04 By corinna barnard
  • Chris Hedges: Going to War, Again, for Israel
    Source: Consortium News Date: 2026-03-04 By corinna barnard
  • Pro-War Pundits Are Putting Words in Iranians’ Mouths
    Source: Jacobin Date: 2026-03-04 By Ben Burgis
  • Jeffrey Sachs: Attack on Iran Also an Assault on UN
    Source: Consortium News Date: 2026-03-04 By Elizabeth Vos
  • Cut Out the Wall Street Middlemen From Our Pension Funds
    Source: Jacobin Date: 2026-03-04 By Drew Warshaw
  • Trump Is in Way Over His Head in Iran
    Source: Jacobin Date: 2026-03-04 By Branko Marcetic
  • Total lunar eclipse March 2026: what time, where and when to see the full ‘blood moon’ tonight over North America, Australia and New Zealand
    Source: The Guardian Date: 2026-03-04 By Ima Caldwell
  • AIPAC Is Influencing Trump’s War in Iran
    Source: Jacobin Date: 2026-03-04 By Katya Schwenk
  • A High School Socialist Is Taking on the Bosses in Texas
    Source: Jacobin Date: 2026-03-04 By Reese Armstrong
  • Cut the Military Budget in Half
    Source: Jacobin Date: 2026-03-04 By Eric Blanc
  • Iran, Epstein & Human Sacrifice
    Source: Consortium News Date: 2026-03-04 By corinna barnard
  • If Westerners Could Wrap Their Minds Around What War Really Is
    Source: Caitlin Johnstone Date: 2026-03-04 By Caitlin Johnstone
  • Albanese can run but not hide from Carney’s message about the threat from the US
    Source: Crikey.com Date: 2026-03-04 By Bernard Keane
  • Pauline Hanson’s fire sale, News Corp’s ‘mean girls’ redux, and Canada’s PM brings a friend Down Under
    Source: Crikey.com Date: 2026-03-04 By Cochon Truffier
  • How deep does Australia’s loyalty to the US run, and is it rational?
    Source: Crikey.com Date: 2026-03-04 By Charlie Lewis
  • Starmer is a dead man walking. Albanese had better take note
    Source: Crikey.com Date: 2026-03-03 By Benjamin Clark
  • Who’s afraid of changes to the Capital Gains Tax discount?
    Source: Crikey.com Date: 2026-03-03 By Rachel Withers
  • America’s Inevitable Conflict
    Source: Consortium News Date: 2026-03-03 By corinna barnard
TDB: Top NZ Political Podcasts
  1. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF with Duncan Garner Audience: 30,667
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  3. Ryan Bridge Today Audience: xx,xxx
  4. MATA with Mihi Forbes Audience: 36,333
  5. LOCKED OUT with Craig Renney Audience: 4,400
  6. The Vinny Eastwood Show Audience: xx,xxx
  7. BHN – BIG HAIRY NEWS with Pat and Chewie Audience: 3,533
  8. THE BRADBURY GROUP with Martyn Bradbury Audience: 2,500
  9. PENNY MARIE NZ Audience: 4,000
  10. Cross Party Lines with Phil Goff & Christopher Finlayson Audience: 4,000
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Liberal Agenda

  • The Liberal Agenda – The Rocky Horror Picture Show 5 stars

    The Liberal Agenda – The Rocky Horror Picture Show 5 stars

    ByThe Daily Blog 1 March 20262 March 2026

    Fifty years after it first strutted onto stage, The Rocky Horror Show remains the ultimate cult musical — part theatre,…

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Daily Gallery

  • Political Caption Competition

    Political Caption Competition

    ByThe Daily Blog 4 March 2026

    The bias towards supporting Israel and America inside the BBC is remarkable

    Read More Political Caption CompetitionContinue

  • In Occupied Palestine – 01 March 2026

    In Occupied Palestine – 01 March 2026

    ByLeslie Bravery 4 March 20264 March 2026

    In Occupied Palestine Zionism in practice Israel’s Daily Toll on Palestinian Life, Limb, Liberty and Land Sanction Israel Gaza‘s growing death, injury and sickness 08:00, 01 March 2026 until 08:00, 02 March 2026 In Gaza during the past 24 hours…

    Read More In Occupied Palestine – 01 March 2026Continue

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Guest Blogs & Sponsored Posts

  • GUEST BLOG: Pat O’Dea – Class War: Leadership Counts

    GUEST BLOG: Pat O’Dea – Class War: Leadership Counts

    ByThe Daily Blog 28 February 202628 February 2026

     Class War: Leadership Counts There are tens of thousands of people in New Zealand without secure housing. Over 150,000…

    Read More GUEST BLOG: Pat O’Dea – Class War: Leadership CountsContinue

  • GUEST BLOG – Seeby Woodhouse – The Discombobulator

    GUEST BLOG – Seeby Woodhouse – The Discombobulator

    BySeeby Woodhouse 28 February 202628 February 2026

    When Maduro was captured 6 weeks ago, I didn’t write an article, because frankly it was a fairly depressing prospect…

    Read More GUEST BLOG – Seeby Woodhouse – The DiscombobulatorContinue

  • Guest Blog: Ian Powell – What do they know of balance sheets who only balance sheets know?

    Guest Blog: Ian Powell – What do they know of balance sheets who only balance sheets know?

    ByIan Powell 26 February 202626 February 2026

    I’m a self-confessed ‘cricket nut’ or, as former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern once said of her finance minister Grant Robertson,…

    Read More Guest Blog: Ian Powell – What do they know of balance sheets who only balance sheets know?Continue

  • GUEST BLOG: Tadhg Stopford – RBNZ confessions

    GUEST BLOG: Tadhg Stopford – RBNZ confessions

    ByTadhg Stopford 23 February 202623 February 2026

    The Reserve Bank of NZ doesn’t decide what Money builds New Zealand doesn’t have a monetary policy problem. It has…

    Read More GUEST BLOG: Tadhg Stopford – RBNZ confessionsContinue

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The Bradbury Group

War Abroad. Poll Shock at Home. Crime Spin Tested.

The Bradbury Group goes LIVE with Barbara Edmonds, Matthew Hooton, Simon Wilson and Matthew Tukaki. Trump’s escalating war with Iran and NZ’s confused response. A new IPSOS poll showing Labour ahead on almost every major issue. And National’s claims of falling crime — reality or spin? Sharp debate. No safe spaces.

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Raw News

  • Opportunity is calling on the Government to reverse its plans to build an LNG terminal in Taranaki.

    Opportunity is calling on the Government to reverse its plans to build an LNG terminal in Taranaki.

    ByThe Daily Blog 4 March 20264 March 2026

    “The evidence could not be clearer that tethering New Zealand’s future energy grid to a volatile global commodity like Liquid Natural Gas will not serve the interest of Kiwi communities and businesses” says party leader Qiulae Wong. “European gas futures…

    Read More Opportunity is calling on the Government to reverse its plans to build an LNG terminal in Taranaki.Continue

  • Welcome To Climate School For Ministers Toy Assembly –  Parents for Climate Aotearoa

    Welcome To Climate School For Ministers Toy Assembly – Parents for Climate Aotearoa

    ByThe Daily Blog 4 March 2026

    What: Toy Assembly to introduce the Term One Energy curriculum to Ministers who are failing the basics, let alone doing them brilliantly. When: Wednesday 4 March 11am – 2pm – Delivery of curriculum to MPs likely to be after 1pm…

    Read More Welcome To Climate School For Ministers Toy Assembly – Parents for Climate AotearoaContinue

  • Unite Union Condemns Deadly Attacks On Iran — Calls Out Government Silence

    Unite Union Condemns Deadly Attacks On Iran — Calls Out Government Silence

    ByThe Daily Blog 3 March 2026

    Unite Union has strongly condemned the deadly attacks on Iran by the United States and Israel, calling them a reckless escalation that is costing civilian lives and threatening wider war. “The US and Israel’s shameful attacks have meant hundreds dead…

    Read More Unite Union Condemns Deadly Attacks On Iran — Calls Out Government SilenceContinue

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    Statement By ICONZ On The NZ Govt’s Response To The Escalation Of Violence And Alleged Violations Of International Law

    ByThe Daily Blog 3 March 20263 March 2026

    The ongoing escalation of violence and the serious allegations of breaches of international humanitarian law in the current conflict involving the United States and Israel against Iran have caused deep distress among many communities in Aotearoa. These events have led…

    Read More Statement By ICONZ On The NZ Govt’s Response To The Escalation Of Violence And Alleged Violations Of International LawContinue

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