Welcome to TDB Election 2023

Comrades.

Myself, all our bloggers and the mods took a couple of weeks off and we all happened to take the last weekend off. TDB missing in action for a couple of days seemed to have sparked some concern.

There was no conspiracy, we are all just exhausted from a bloody hard 2022 and needed to recharge our batteries for the coming election year circus.

We return in force today with John Minto’s scathing analysis of Labour and the Greens,  Professor Susan St John’s evisceration of current social policy, Chris Trotter’s critique of Co-governance, Cannabis activist Chris Fowlie’s analysis of cannabis politics in 2023 and Ben Morgan’s oversight of the ongoing war in the Ukraine.

You like dem apples?

This is now the 10th year of The Daily Blog and every year I ask why the hell I keep doing this and look at all the other things I want to go and do, but then I see the stats for the year and we had just under 5million page views for 2022 and I’m reminded of the importance TDB plays in the ecosphere of the NZ political media landscape and recommit myself to push on while juggling the million other things we need to do to keep this project running.

Stop bitching we had a holiday and start donating!

TDB will return for Election 2023 with a passion to hold the political ideologies and party’s to account while calling it the way we see it.

We will return with the best weekly live-streamed political podcast (that’s not funded by NZ on Air) and bring new voices and wider analysis to the politics of this year.

We have a lot of tricks up our sleeves for this years coverage and will bring you insight and oversight from the Left as we face what will be the most important election in modern NZ history.

This is our country, this is our democracy, let the debate begin!

Here’s to Election 2023 and all the madness that comes with it.

Increasingly having independent opinion in a mainstream media environment which mostly echo one another has become more important than ever, so if you value having an independent voice – please donate here.