Labour Party Leak Shows Amateur Hour
The Labour Party leak is not really about a dumb insult. It is about a party asking to govern while failing to secure its own training room.

The Labour Party leak is not really about a dumb insult. It is about a party asking to govern while failing to secure its own training room.

Stephen Colbert made America feel sane under Trump. Now The Late Show is gone, and the silence feels less like cancellation than warning.

Luxon said Winston Peters mischaracterised him on Iran. Now his own office says the evidence doesn’t exist. That is not a footnote, it is the story.

Twenty arrests over prison corruption should worry New Zealand. This is what happens when 501 syndicates, meth money and cartel tactics hit a soft system.

Do hate speech laws protect the vulnerable, or hand the state a weapon against free speech? This Keith Locke Memorial Debate will be worth watching.

New Zealand is not broken by accident. Tadhg Stopford argues we built an economy that rewards extraction, debt and inflated land values over real production.

After years demanding Labour define a woman, NZ First’s answer appears to be: a woman is a biological female and a female is a biological female.

The Mongrel Mob meth rehabilitation programme worked. But in New Zealand, looking tough on gangs matters more than reducing addiction.

While centrists manage decline, Zohran Mamdani is rolling out public supermarkets, confronting monopoly power and giving working people something Labour forgot how to offer: hope.

A new US-led Pacific “kill web” linking Japan, South Korea and the Philippines signals how rapidly the Indo-Pacific is militarising.