The Daily Blog relaunch for Election 26
Comrades, welcome to The Daily Blog Election 2026!
Last year we had 800,000 readers and 7 million page views.
This month we are relaunching The Daily Blog in the biggest redesign of our 13 year history.
We have been working on this for 8 months and wanted to pay homage to TDB as an OG in the NZ Blogging community.
We take our role as a left wing blog in Election 2026 seriously, especially as the mainstream media becomes more biased towards the interests of Billionaires, Big Pollution, Mining, Corporate Dairy, Speculators and Property Pimps.
We will scrutinise the Right’s messaging and policy while critiquing the offerings of the Left.
2026 is the most important election in our lifetime because if these right wing arseholes win a second term, they will cement into place their 19th century white settler privilege using an anti-Māori, anti-Treaty, anti-renter, anti-beneficiary, anti-worker, anti-renter and anti environment agenda that seeks to strangle the common good for their donor’s interests.
Over the next week our new design is being loaded up and we wanted to use the blog as an important resource for the Election, especially in an age of right wing misinformation and disinformation.
We are excited to share what we have built with you over the next week.
In solidarity Comrades, see you on the other side of the upgrade.
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Dam time, looks good
Are you going to make it so comments appear in real time? The current slow process is a real damper on engagement
Bomber its looking good.
I look forward to what you come up with and T.D.B will still be my go to for genuine center left responsible commentary and insight.
You probably regard me as a pain in the arse with the way I write but I know we think the same way on most issues. Forgive any arrogance on my part with that statement but I know you would give me a serve if you thought I was out of order. To date you never have that I can recall.
Know your enemy and go hard on those who need to be held to account that hide behind their party’s name and pretend they care about working people , their aspirations , hopes and the right to the New Zealand fair go while they court corporate money and then are forever compromised and can never deliver for the people who they solicit votes from promising a better deal.
Kia kaha Bomber and the team.
The new web design looks great and sleek. Keep up the good work.
New look ! The moving finger at the top writes and moves on so fast the eye can’t perceive it. Just like events in the real world which we come here to read about, observe and think about, but…
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.
-Omar Khayyam, translated by by Edward Fitzgerald
https://sacredpoetryworkshop.com/the-moving-finger-writes-
The posts being sliced and diced vertically leave the thoughts attenuated as well.
Still let’s be modern and have change as the past has yielded dissatisfaction. I’m reading a book bought on spec some years ago ‘The Voluntary City’, as was intrigued by the title. It mentions the feudal system, often considered backward, actually being a series of ingenious devices to fill the power vacuum left by the fall of Rome. Don’t be too quick to modernise away systems already accepted and used, as we are on a downward slide ourselves, socially, environmentally and politically.
Put your mouse pointer on the moving banner at the top when you want it to stop
Ta Clive I have a slow tech absorption rate – or something.
The words race along at the top. It is almost a call to recognise how fast-moving our and all politics are now. What about some sound connected to provide a unique style to the blog – a train whistle that erupts now and then as the words flash past!
Let’s have some fun while we fulminate, why should terminal politics be so desperately depressing?
Martyn – Well done…