The NZ neoliberal experiment is melting down as enormity of energy crisis and climate dawns
The economy built on housing speculation, privatisation and cheap growth is colliding with climate chaos, energy shocks and public exhaustion.

The economy built on housing speculation, privatisation and cheap growth is colliding with climate chaos, energy shocks and public exhaustion.

A catastrophic earthquake, war in the Pacific, economic collapse or Winston going full Farage. Are these the only scenarios where National and Labour unite?

UK Labour’s electoral punishment is a warning shot for New Zealand Labour: voters hammered by inequality want change, not managerial drift.

Testimony, leaked footage and human rights investigations are piling up around allegations of horrific abuse inside Israel’s Sde Teiman detention centre.

Unemployment, migrant “values tests”, homelessness and Māori anger collide in this week’s explosive Election 2026 political panel.

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.