More Smoke and Mirrors from Erica Stanford
Erica Stanford says Year 8 maths is improving. The Ministry’s own numbers suggest the truth is more complicated.

Erica Stanford says Year 8 maths is improving. The Ministry’s own numbers suggest the truth is more complicated.

Labour’s support for the India free trade deal may secure the numbers — but opens the door for Winston’s race-baiting politics.
National’s collapse in the polls could make Winston kingmaker again — unless TOP breaks through.

Former prisoners are dying after release — and the system designed to rehabilitate them appears to look away.

New Zealand isn’t a tiny battler — it’s a vast, sparsely populated nation built on State infrastructure, not free market fantasy.

Before America and Israel preach democracy to Iran, they should remember who helped create the crisis.

Inflation fears are rising, economists are backtracking, and Moody’s has put New Zealand’s economy on notice.

A storm every eight days. At some point New Zealand won’t rebuild fast enough — and when that happens, politics changes forever.

Flood plains. No transport. No sewage. No stormwater. Yet Sunfield was rammed through under fast-track powers. What does that look like to you?

Simon Court’s AI-generated fantasy portrait is being roasted online — and critics say it’s as detached from reality as his politics.