National spectacularly jump the shark over ‘Sroubrek 2.0’ and highlight their ultimate weakness
National made a lot of hay out of the Sroubrek story. Despite Immigration not including the information National had dug…
Martyn Bradbury
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Winston vs the CTU – what’s really going to happen next year?
Winston and Jacinda appearing at the CTU conference this week was a carefully stage managed affair to send very clear messaging to the CTU to not push their luck
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Surprise, surprise – the Police want harsh new powers against da gangs
You can either read it here first or read it in the mainstream media months later.
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Waatea News Column: The Maori Party could spoil Jacinda’s dreams for a second term
The Māori Party have selected the exceptionally talented Debbie Ngarewa-Packer as their candidate in the very vulnerable seat of Te Tai Hauāuru and it represents the biggest threat to Jacinda’s dreams for a second term than any other political challenge.
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Just consider the ludicrous things we are being asked to believe in the NZDF war crime white wash
John Key personally signed off on this fiasco, he must be held accountable for it!
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Online voting won’t lift participation but a midweek public holiday might
We need an out of the box idea, not more tinkering at the edges.
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Has the woke Wellington Twitteratti lynch mob called for the cancellation of Professor James Flynn yet? At the least an Action Station petition?
The manner in which middle class identity politics has eclipsed the class based left as the movements dominant ideology has created all sorts of intellectual paradoxes.
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Dear Auckland, after disastrous election turn out – isn’t it time to re-examine the far right experiment that is the SuperCity?
Aucklanders weaponised their apathy because the Supercity democracy is a farce, a grotesque masquerade of democratic representation to trick people into participating so that it has the pretence of legitimacy, and Aucklanders, stuck in their gridlock see how hollow the promises of infrastructure investment really are.
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TVNZ POLL: National 47%, Labour 40%, Green 7%, NZ First 4%
It’s a harsh lesson for Labour that allegations in the age of social media trump actual guilt or innocence but as insane as that is, that’s where we are now.
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TV3 Poll: National 43.9%, Labour 41.6%, Green 6.3%, NZ First 4%, ACT 1.4%
Even at the height of accusing Jacinda of covering up a sexual assault, only 2.5% more liked Simon Bridges. When you can’t win any more favour off the person being accused of covering up a sex crime, you really do need to ask some serious questions.