Super El Niño Could Splinter Politics as Climate Crisis Bites
The rich will raise walls and buy more air conditioning. Everyone else gets heat, hunger, displacement and a political system protecting the polluters.

The rich will raise walls and buy more air conditioning. Everyone else gets heat, hunger, displacement and a political system protecting the polluters.

Britain is locking up climate and Palestine-solidarity protesters. Now New Zealand is rushing through new Police powers with barely a murmur.

One year after being pushed out for refusing to shut up, The Bradbury Group is still here, still growing, and still spoiling for Election 2026.

Speak English if you are a migrant worker. Bring millions if you want a mansion. National’s immigration priorities could not be clearer.

Nearly 1.2 billion people are living with mental disorders while the planet burns and AI threatens work. This despair is not happening by accident.

Three elected teacher representatives resign early. Erica Stanford moves towards a fully appointed Teaching Council. And the same ugly question keeps surfacing: who is really in charge?

Katikati patients could lose local hours, weekend clinics and urgent care if a blunt funding model decides their rural community is suddenly urban.

Barbara Edmonds on the pre-Budget wreckage. Hone Harawira on Māori politics. Hooton, Verity Johnson and Qiulae Wong on a Government drowning in scandal. Live politics, no anaesthetic.

Stuart Nash leaked Cabinet details to donors, disgraced himself talking about women, and has now found a new political home with NZ First. Of course he has.

The Government created the conditions for homelessness. Now it wants police powers to move rough sleepers and beggars out of sight. Even Chris Bishop says parts breach protected rights.