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  • Police Minister bullies TVNZ to lie about National’s crime stats
    CTF | Deconstructing Headlines | Featured | Martyn Bradbury | Most Recent Blogs

    Police Minister bullies TVNZ to lie about National’s crime stats

    ByThe Daily Blog 5 March 2026

    This is the sort of shit that Trump pulls with his media… TVNZ chair calls Paul Goldsmith after police minister dissatisfied with gang numbers story The media and broadcasting minister Paul Goldsmith has confirmed the board chair of TVNZ contacted him after the police minister expressed dissatisfaction with a 1News story about gang numbers. Goldsmith said the chair of the…

    Read More Police Minister bullies TVNZ to lie about National’s crime statsContinue

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  • Labour do right AND SMART thing on $63m MSD/ACC clawback

    Labour do right AND SMART thing on $63m MSD/ACC clawback

    Labour requests amendments to bill that could leave vulnerable people in debt The Labour Party has requested amendments to the…

    Read More Labour do right AND SMART thing on $63m MSD/ACC clawbackContinue

  • MEDIAWATCH: Aotearoa Podcast Survey February 2026

    MEDIAWATCH: Aotearoa Podcast Survey February 2026

    The Daily Blog has commissioned me to conduct a monthly survey of online content from which to make a definitive…

    Read More MEDIAWATCH: Aotearoa Podcast Survey February 2026Continue

  • GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Class political warfare via employment law

    GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Class political warfare via employment law

    In 1894 the new reforming Liberal government passed the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act. It was recognised as landmark legislation…

    Read More GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Class political warfare via employment lawContinue

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

  • Police Minister bullies TVNZ to lie about National’s crime stats

    Police Minister bullies TVNZ to lie about National’s crime stats

    ByThe Daily Blog 5 March 2026

    This is the sort of shit that Trump pulls with his media… TVNZ chair calls Paul Goldsmith after police minister dissatisfied with gang numbers story The media and broadcasting minister Paul Goldsmith has confirmed the board chair of TVNZ contacted him after the police minister expressed dissatisfaction with a 1News…

    Read More Police Minister bullies TVNZ to lie about National’s crime statsContinue

  • Labour do right AND SMART thing on $63m MSD/ACC clawback

    Labour do right AND SMART thing on $63m MSD/ACC clawback

    ByMartyn Bradbury 5 March 20265 March 2026

    Labour requests amendments to bill that could leave vulnerable people in debt The Labour Party has requested amendments to the Social Security Amendment Bill, a proposed law change that could leave vulnerable people $63 million worse off, while supporting it to the next stage of the law-making process. Stuff first…

    Read More Labour do right AND SMART thing on $63m MSD/ACC clawbackContinue

  • What will happen next in Trump’s illegal Iran war?

    What will happen next in Trump’s illegal Iran war?

    ByMartyn Bradbury 4 March 2026

    You just know that whatever is lurking at the bottom of the Epstein Files must be pretty bad because surprise, surprise, Donald Trump and Israel have launched an illegal war on Iran in an operation that should be called ‘Epic Tantrum’. It’s not clear why America and Israel needed to…

    Read More What will happen next in Trump’s illegal Iran war?Continue

  • Why do so many alt-Right white men hate Tamatha Paul?

    Why do so many alt-Right white men hate Tamatha Paul?

    ByMartyn Bradbury 4 March 2026

    Cough. You’ll remember the pile on last year when Green MP Tamatha Paul had the audacity to suggest that not everyone felt safe with the Police… What a Green MP said about police, and why it’s being called ‘nutty’, ‘stupid’ and ‘la la land stuff’ Stuff …yeah. ’bout that… New…

    Read More Why do so many alt-Right white men hate Tamatha Paul?Continue

  • Eru does another suicide bombing of Te Pati Māori – why the drama-drama doesn’t matter to the wider Left now

    Eru does another suicide bombing of Te Pati Māori – why the drama-drama doesn’t matter to the wider Left now

    ByMartyn Bradbury 4 March 2026

    And the self mutilation of Te Pati Māori continues with Eru’s new suicide bombing of the leadership, this time with…

    Read More Eru does another suicide bombing of Te Pati Māori – why the drama-drama doesn’t matter to the wider Left nowContinue

  • 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…

    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…

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

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Media Watch

  • MEDIAWATCH: Aotearoa Podcast Survey February 2026
    CTF | Featured | Media Watch | Most Recent Blogs | Tim Selwyn

    MEDIAWATCH: Aotearoa Podcast Survey February 2026

    ByTim Selwyn 5 March 20265 March 2026

    The Daily Blog has commissioned me to conduct a monthly survey of online content from which to make a definitive list ranking of Aotearoa political podcasts. The survey and ranking system will follow my previous project on blogs so far…

    Read More MEDIAWATCH: Aotearoa Podcast Survey February 2026Continue

  • The Bradbury Group thumbnail 3 March 2026

    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

TDB Left News
  • Domestic
  • International
  • #regional: Ūawa Community Blesses New Marae Site After Cyclone Gabrielle Devastation
    Waatea Digital Date: 2026-03-05 By Dale Husband
  • #national: Calls for System Overhaul as Report Reveals Ongoing Failures in State Care
    Waatea Digital Date: 2026-03-05 By Dale Husband
  • #hauora: Māori Health Leadership Warns New Bill Deepens Inequity One Year After Te Aka Whai Ora Disestablished
    Waatea Digital Date: 2026-03-05 By Dale Husband
  • NZ spy agency providing Iran war threat intelligence
    RNZ Politics Date: 2026-03-05 By admin
  • Hang On
    Nick’s Kōrero Date: 2026-03-05 By Nick Rockel
  • Treasury figures show $6 billion deficit for seven months ended January
    RNZ Politics Date: 2026-03-05 By admin
  • #hakinakina: Black Caps Smash South Africa to Reach T20 World Cup Final
    Waatea Digital Date: 2026-03-05 By Matthew Tukaki
  • #regional: Ngāti Mutunga Opens Homes in Urenui to Help Whānau Return to Ancestral Lands
    Waatea Digital Date: 2026-03-05 By Matthew Tukaki
  • #national: Government Proposal to Remove Māori Land Court Oversight Sparks Concern
    Waatea Digital Date: 2026-03-05 By Matthew Tukaki
  • #international: Government Activates Consular Support for New Zealanders in the Middle East
    Waatea Digital Date: 2026-03-05 By Matthew Tukaki
  • #hauora: Twelve Whānau-Led Hauora Projects Receive $60,000 Funding Boost
    Waatea Digital Date: 2026-03-05 By Matthew Tukaki
  • Government pushes back deadline for agencies' plans for Budget bids
    RNZ Politics Date: 2026-03-05 By admin
  • Immigration Minister Erica Stanford apologises after inflating overstayer figures
    RNZ Politics Date: 2026-03-05 By admin
  • NZ Defence Force planes on standby for Middle East evacuations
    RNZ Politics Date: 2026-03-05 By admin
  • Government considering scrapping entire clean car standard
    RNZ Politics Date: 2026-03-05 By admin
  • Former Gloriavale member criticises Louise Upston's decision to visit Christian community
    RNZ Politics Date: 2026-03-05 By admin
  • Spike in children under 12 needing mental health support
    RNZ Politics Date: 2026-03-05 By admin
  • Māori granted customary rights under tougher coastline law
    Newsroom Date: 2026-03-05 By Tim Murphy
  • Dawn Chorus: Three weeks of diesel left
    The Kaka with Bernard Hickey Date: 2026-03-05 By Bernard Hickey
  • Allowing Foodstuffs merger would flout Govt drive for competition – ComCom
    Newsroom Date: 2026-03-05 By Tina Morrison
  • Melania Trump’s Hypocrisy at the UN
    Source: Consortium News Date: 2026-03-06 By corinna barnard
  • WATCH: CN Live! — ‘Mideast on Fire’
    Source: Consortium News Date: 2026-03-05 By Consortiumnews.com
  • The US Is Fighting Israel’s War on Iran
    Source: Jacobin Date: 2026-03-05 By Branko Marcetic
  • Other Avenues to Try, to Stop the War on Iran
    Source: Consortium News Date: 2026-03-05 By Elizabeth Vos
  • Democrats Are Facing a Moment of Reckoning
    Source: Jacobin Date: 2026-03-05 By David Sirota
  • Iran Is Morally Superior To The United States
    Source: Caitlin Johnstone Date: 2026-03-05 By Caitlin Johnstone
  • DAY 4 RECAP: ATTACK ON IRAN
    Source: Consortium News Date: 2026-03-05 By Consortiumnews.com
  • Scream 7 Is More Tedious Meta-Horror Fan Service
    Source: Jacobin Date: 2026-03-05 By Eileen Jones
  • Zohran Mamdani Wants to Build Housing. He Should Build Green.
    Source: Jacobin Date: 2026-03-05 By Ruthy Gourevitch
  • Palestine Action Is Putting Britain’s Government to Shame
    Source: Jacobin Date: 2026-03-05 By Lottie Head
  • James Talarico’s Win Shows the Promise of a Class Message
    Source: Jacobin Date: 2026-03-05 By David Griscom
  • US Commanders Invoke Biblical End Times in Iran
    Source: Consortium News Date: 2026-03-05 By corinna barnard
  • We’re publishing the Liberal Party election review in full
    Source: Crikey.com Date: 2026-03-05 By Anton Nilsson
  • No wonder he wants to suppress it: Election review goes to the heart of why Taylor’s all wrong for the Liberals
    Source: Crikey.com Date: 2026-03-05 By Bernard Keane
  • 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 decry ‘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
TDB: Top NZ Political Podcasts
  1. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF with Duncan Garner Audience: 30,667
  2. Q+A with Jack Tame Audience: 40,000
  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

    ByMartyn Bradbury 1 March 20265 March 2026

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

    Read More The Liberal Agenda – The Rocky Horror Picture Show 5 starsContinue

Daily Gallery

  • Political Caption Competition

    Political Caption Competition

    ByThe Daily Blog 5 March 2026

    Read More Political Caption CompetitionContinue

  • In Occupied Palestine – 02 March 2026

    In Occupied Palestine – 02 March 2026

    ByLeslie Bravery 5 March 20265 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, 02 March 2026 until 08:00, 03 March 2026 In Gaza during the past 24 hours…

    Read More In Occupied Palestine – 02 March 2026Continue

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Guest Blogs & Sponsored Posts

  • GUEST BLOG: Talk Liberation – Humans Reject AI, Panquake Goes Viral Again

    GUEST BLOG: Talk Liberation – Humans Reject AI, Panquake Goes Viral Again

    ByThe Daily Blog 5 March 2026

    As AI discontent spreads, people-powered social network Panquake is perfectly positioned to give users what they need – at exactly…

    Read More GUEST BLOG: Talk Liberation – Humans Reject AI, Panquake Goes Viral AgainContinue

  • GUEST BLOG: Mick Hall –  Five Eyes on Iran

    GUEST BLOG: Mick Hall – Five Eyes on Iran

    ByThe Daily Blog 4 March 2026

    Responses to the US-Israeli crime of aggression from member states of the US-led Five Eyes intelligence network place them among…

    Read More GUEST BLOG: Mick Hall – Five Eyes on IranContinue

  • 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

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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

  • Groups Demand Civilian Protection, Respect For Law Amid US–Israeli Attacks On Iran – Amnesty International Aotearoa New Zealand

    Groups Demand Civilian Protection, Respect For Law Amid US–Israeli Attacks On Iran – Amnesty International Aotearoa New Zealand

    ByThe Daily Blog 5 March 2026

    Amid rapid expansion of regional hostilities across the Middle East following the ongoing joint United States-Israel attacks on Iran and the subsequent wave of Iranian retaliatory attacks across the region, Amnesty International is issuing an urgent call on all parties…

    Read More Groups Demand Civilian Protection, Respect For Law Amid US–Israeli Attacks On Iran – Amnesty International Aotearoa New ZealandContinue

  • Alternative Jewish Voices Urges, Stop This Catastrophe! – Alternative Jewish Voices

    Alternative Jewish Voices Urges, Stop This Catastrophe! – Alternative Jewish Voices

    ByThe Daily Blog 5 March 2026

    We, Alternative Jewish Voices, deplore Israel and America’s illegal war of aggression against Iran. We also condemned the repression of Ayatollah Khamenei, but that does not justify this war. International war will only bring – is already bringing – more…

    Read More Alternative Jewish Voices Urges, Stop This Catastrophe! – Alternative Jewish VoicesContinue

  • Iran Crisis: Schoolgirls Killed, Thousands Displaced And Aid Compromised – UN News

    Iran Crisis: Schoolgirls Killed, Thousands Displaced And Aid Compromised – UN News

    ByThe Daily Blog 5 March 2026

    UN human rights office spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani also recalled the horror of a strike on Saturday which reportedly killed and injured dozens of girls in a primary school in Minab in the south of Iran. “Children, little girls…at the beginning…

    Read More Iran Crisis: Schoolgirls Killed, Thousands Displaced And Aid Compromised – UN NewsContinue

  • Children Sleeping In Cars And On The Streets In Lebanon As Families Seek Safety – Save the Children

    Children Sleeping In Cars And On The Streets In Lebanon As Families Seek Safety – Save the Children

    ByThe Daily Blog 5 March 2026

    Families are sleeping in cars, in the street and in damaged schools seeking safety as the number of people displaced in Lebanon rises and with seven children reported killed, Save the Children said. About 58,000 people, including an estimated 16,000…

    Read More Children Sleeping In Cars And On The Streets In Lebanon As Families Seek Safety – Save the ChildrenContinue

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