Christopher Luxon in Botany – Winners & Losers
So the worst kept secret in right wing politics has finally announced he’s running for Botany.
What does it mean?
Deconstructing Headlines
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
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Is National to blame for our road deaths?
National love to deregulate and underfund everything, it’s what they do, but the admission by NZTA that they completely dropped the ball on road safety under National deserves some more focus, especially as Simon Bridges was in charge at the time and is now leader…
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I would never vote in a NZ online election. Ever.
…because of the ease of hacking online voting machines, any NZ election that adopts online voting would mean I would never vote again.
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Actually Jacinda, foreign ownership of our Forests IS a big deal
Seeing as the PM likes to DJ, maybe she needs this on loop…
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A Labour Government with billion dollar surpluses is like a billionaire socialist – not to be respected or trusted
Strip out the one off re-valuation of Kiwirail and the change in how IRD books tax, and you have $4billion in real surplus.
That’s a problem.
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China vs Free Speech fight highlights the pettiness of NZ free speech debate
It really says something about us when bloody South Park are greater champions for free speech than the NZ Identity Politics Left.
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What is actually happening inside NZ First’s implosion?
The tensions inside NZ First between the angry rednecks who want angry redneck policy and Winston’s more rational stance combined with the retail politics need for vested interests to fund you will run riot because NZ First doesn’t have any real ideological values.
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What Trump has just done to the Kurds could be one of the greatest betrayals of the 21st century
Trump is either remarkably ignorant of the geopolitics here or he is nakedly corrupt and is getting some type of unseen quid pro quo out of Erdoğan.
Or both.
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Dead students in Uni hostels & NZTA’s horror report are two symptoms of the same neoliberal disease
A public university and a public agency, two symptoms within our public service of the same disease.
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The 3 moments that grew the gangs, grew the meth and created a law of unintended political consequences
Cough, as TDB pointed out in our How Stuart Nash wins National the 2020 election blog.
Gang numbers are up.
Meth prices are down.
What the hell happened and when does this political time bomb go off?