Labour Party Leak Shows Amateur Hour
The Labour Party leak is not really about a dumb insult. It is about a party asking to govern while failing to secure its own training room.

The Labour Party leak is not really about a dumb insult. It is about a party asking to govern while failing to secure its own training room.

Tory Whanau was publicly torn apart for rumours and innuendo, yet Ray Chung’s resignation following police concerns around an emergency response has generated nowhere near the same level of scrutiny. The contrast says a lot about who the media chooses to target.

If Matthew Horncastle runs for National, critics say it could expose exactly how far culture war politics has consumed the modern Right.

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.

Barry Soper spent decades dishing it out. Now one 16-year-old grudge has made him look like the most fragile man in New Zealand media.

If you bankroll the fight, should you also pay the bill when it collapses?

When the rich can squeeze media they don’t like… is that business — or something else?

The growing influence of billionaire Jim Grenon over New Zealand media raises urgent questions about democracy, editorial independence and the role of culture war politics.

The Herald’s latest hit on Chris Hipkins over Covid vaccines looks less like reporting and more like billionaire-backed culture war politics.