Te Pati Maori AGM: JT’s stalemate and a Kotahitanga pact
Ask the Te Pati Maori members present today in Rotorua for the AGM to write on a piece of paper…
Tim Selwyn
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Winston’s policy uncertainty principle and Wellington’s grab into the regions
Winston is pacing up and down waiting for the text. Glancing incessantly, obsessively at his mobile. Then a ping. Jon:…
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Te Pati Maori & the anatomy of Mathematics
Te Pati Maori’s internecine calamity unfolds in streams of comments in Facebook pages and online messages that is a spectrum…
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Roastbusters vs McSkimming vs a few bad apples
The ‘Roastbusters’ case was mentioned on TV some time back. I was at someone else’s place and the lady there…
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A short missive on Te Pati Maori’s nepotising fasciitis
Sometimes I want to be Steve McQueen circa 1968. I’ve got a woollen, tweed type jacket that he might have…
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Winston Peters, Oxford Coma
Last week in between haunting the parliaments of Scandinavia like the hybrid Count Dracula and Count Richelieu that he is,…
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Mumbo-schmumbo from the BSA
The letter to The Platform from the Broadcasting Standards Authority resembles an April Fools gag. The RNZ newsreader was barely…
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Gaza-Israel prisoner exchange, Trump’s Knesset speech, Summit at Sharm El Sheik
I started watching the Gaza cease-fire live coverage on Al Jazeera at 6pm NZDT yesterday (13/10/2025). The events kept rolling…
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Hoiking for Hamas Least of Winston’s Bummers
Yesterday’s twitter flame war between New Zealand’s Foreign Minister and The Daily Blog editor Martyn Bradbury was a most amusing,…
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No New Zealand New York Minute: Winston and the Palestine Question
Once the official death toll in Gaza got to 50,000 I stopped following the number. The real toll will be…
