If only Nicola Willis was right and Labour has a list of secret taxes!
Nicola Willis thinks Labour has secret taxes. God, if only. NZ doesn’t need tax panic, it needs the rich to finally pay up.
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.

Nicola Willis thinks Labour has secret taxes. God, if only. NZ doesn’t need tax panic, it needs the rich to finally pay up.

Washington clutches its pearls over gunfire at a media gala while the real violence in Gaza, Iran and at the petrol pump keeps escalating.
Heavier trucks. Broken roads. Same lobby winning. If you think this is about efficiency, you’re missing who’s really paying the bill.

He didn’t just flip, he spun. From defending heritage land to mining it. If this doesn’t alarm you, it should.

Trump thought he was breaking Iran. Instead, he handed Tehran the Strait of Hormuz, global oil panic and a propaganda victory.

Calling a floodplain SunField is dark comedy. Fast-tracking it without proper infrastructure is something far uglier.

ACT will scream free speech when it suits them. But when Israel kills journalists exposing its violence, suddenly the silence is deafening.
An American millionaire trophy hunter has died after being crushed by elephants in Gabon, and the internet’s response has been brutally unsympathetic.
New Zealand’s 40-year neoliberal experiment has hollowed out the State, inflated housing bubbles and left us dangerously exposed to climate and economic collapse.

A shock TVNZ poll shows Labour surging, but is the failing economy driving it, or are Kiwis quietly rewatching the COVID years through Netflix?