The weirdest thing about Javier Milei may not be the dead dog stories anymore. Allegations around disinformation networks and political money are becoming far harder to ignore.
Winston smells blood. Luxon looks weaker by the day. And as the economy slides deeper into crisis, the coalition’s civil war is becoming impossible to hide.
Winston Peters is tearing chunks out of National while Luxon looks too weak to stop him. The question now is whether this coalition crisis is entirely deliberate.
ACT wants a NZ version of ICE. But is this policy, or a desperate bid to outflank Winston on immigration?
Selling wine to fund a political campaign is weird. Selling it to push charter schools? That’s something else entirely.
ACT want you to believe charter schools are a triumph of efficiency. The problem is their own numbers leave out huge costs and compare unlike with unlike.
Seymour and Winston want New Zealanders to stay calm. Trouble is, the IEA and JP Morgan are waving around numbers that look a lot more like an energy crisis than a minor blip.
This isn’t really about Sean Plunket. It’s about regulation, relevance, and why the BSA picked the weakest possible hill to fight on.
A fuel crisis hits — and suddenly the question isn’t just supply, it’s which rules get cut, and who asked for it.
They say heavier trucks will lower costs. What they don’t say? Trucks already cause most of the damage to our roads — and we pay for it.