Mike Hosking’s face has been so whitewashed in new ZB advert he looks like a KKK scrotum with botox
The new ZB advert has polished Mike Hosking so aggressively he looks less like a broadcaster and more like a haunted scented candle with opinions.

The new ZB advert has polished Mike Hosking so aggressively he looks less like a broadcaster and more like a haunted scented candle with opinions.

When Russian media starts spotlighting your culture-war grift, maybe stop celebrating and start asking who finds you useful.

New Zealand outsourced fuel security, hollowed out the state, and called it efficiency. Now the free market reality is arriving, and the poor will pay first.

NZ dairy thinks political muscle can save it. But when synthetic milk powder becomes cheaper than the real thing, the market won’t care about farmer tears.

Rich foreigners buying farms? Welcome in. Poor migrant workers overstaying visas? Bring in the political attack dogs. This isn’t policy, it’s hypocrisy.

The money is pouring into National, ACT and NZ First, and critics say it reveals exactly who this Government is really working for.

David Seymour attacking RNZ from The Platform is Temu Trump theatre: bully the broadcaster, sneer at journalism, then call it free speech.

National wants credit for rents going down. The ugly truth? Rents are softening because Kiwis are leaving, demand is collapsing, and the economy is bleeding.

The Government is celebrating a 0.1% dip in unemployment while youth joblessness and city unemployment continue climbing. That’s not recovery. That’s drift.

If the Broadcasting Standards Authority disappears, what replaces it? In an era of misinformation and rage-fuelled algorithms, that question matters more than ever.