Super El Niño Could Splinter Politics as Climate Crisis Bites
The rich will raise walls and buy more air conditioning. Everyone else gets heat, hunger, displacement and a political system protecting the polluters.

The rich will raise walls and buy more air conditioning. Everyone else gets heat, hunger, displacement and a political system protecting the polluters.

Stuart Nash leaked Cabinet details to donors, disgraced himself talking about women, and has now found a new political home with NZ First. Of course he has.

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.

The strangest thing about NZ’s culture war Right is how fiercely they defend the wealthy elites exploiting them.

The Treaty rewrite agenda is too sweeping, too coordinated and too well-funded to simply be dismissed as populist politics.

ACT wants migrants tested on Kiwi values. Fine. Let’s test ACT’s values first: privatisation, punishment, property rights and crocodile tears.

The Government thought it could kneecap pay equity, rob low-paid women workers, fund tax cuts, and move on. The unions clearly have other ideas.

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

ACT wants a NZ version of ICE. But is this policy, or a desperate bid to outflank Winston on immigration?