And do they think killing Khameni will be the end, or indeed the start of a new beginning? Iran Air Flight 655 was followed by Pan Am 103. The 9/11 attacks were likewise to avenge a perceived wrong.

Is there a reason out there to suggest that today's news will somehow be different?

Never went to school to be told such a thing on election day. Not least as we had the day off as the school became a polling station.

Kauchal for a dual roll of police commissioner and police minister.

Never mind degrees of separation, nor indeed minutes. The separation here could be measured in a handful of nanoseconds.

Ministers continue to make decisions on fast-track projects after parties take donations linked to applicants One political scientist believes such donations to political parties could be perceived as creating a conflict of interest but official advice disagrees.

Just your daily reminder that Chris Bishop is both the chief fundraiser for the National Party election campaign and needs major donations, and the decision maker giving businesses access to the fast track process. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

At 11 years old your frontal lobe was little more than a dirty thought in your old man's mind. Unless you became a prolific property destroyer then you probably got a little older and wiser not long after.

Police can no longer support mental health crises but can now aid property and business owners in moving those who live on the streets on.

And Mitchell has the audacity to say that for many it is a lifestyle choice. He is an odious little man from a coalition that cares only for the wealthy.

Just waiting for Mavis Cruet to offer us a whimsical aside.

Email notification: Nicola Willis • 5m No new plan, just more tax Which is a bit of a tell considering rates have gone up and electricity LNG taxes are to be levied under this Nats lead govt.

Yes Nicola, we know. And didn't you promise to resign if your tax policy failed?
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Let's face it - no Copilot whatsoever could have put forward replacing IREX with a Corolla equivalent whilst at the same time costing the country more than $500M in doing so. Only a financially illiterate clown could do that. 🤡

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National paves way to criminalise begging, homelessness and protests Homelessness has doubled under the National Party, meth use has gone up 300% & police/mental health resources cut around NZ. Pleas by charities over the last 1.5 years have also fallen on deaf ears

Heartless, compassionless idiots. mountaintui.substack.com/p/national-p...

It's not for an investigator to give credit. Instead it is to identify and pull together the facts. Look down another avenue and why then there are just two protagonists can both be credible? At face value of course but one of them must surely be not as credible as appearances seem.

Not quite - but Esma Cannon did!!

"Catch-up meal" indeed. You're having quiet time with your sister in law whilst your missus is getting it from that lady's old man.

And you likely knew too as what better revenge could there be other than to get your wife's sister into bed? Indeed, is their mother off your radar?

I wonder what odds the TAB might offer on Chris Bishop standing down before the GE...?? 😁

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Sometimes I catch Chris Bishop on the radio and wonder if he sometimes wears being a National with a heavy heart. Whilst he might not yet be ready to cross the floor, he now and again seems like the guy with the bucket & shovel behind the elephants.

No sympathy though - Philip Morris... etc.
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In spite of being more left than centre-left, a notable part of me would delight in a no-nonsense National leader saying "right, we are going to campaign both Epsom and Tamaki and we are going to win. We're they they do so then ACT could well be consigned to history. Beyond Luxon by all accounts.

Don't forget the socialising of investment costs here so that the privatisation of profits can be enabled.

If you were dithering with your support then this should seal it for you 👍

Can we take it that he is entirely unfit to talk about road infrastructure too?

How do we effectively galvanize and publicise a meaningful left of centre alternative to a coalition that shifts further to the right almost every day?

Not sure how but there needs to be a powerful alternative to the likes of a very well-backed NZME.

One of the consistent patterns of this era is that the attempt by the Right to overthrow democracy has run into mass people’s opposition and also judicial opposition. This thing is far from over but the political right is facing more opposition than they anticipated.

Flushed with success

Johnson partied as pensioners died alone. Why didn't Johnson get this pressure to resign. Farage appointed a Russian Agent as the leader of Reform UK in Wales. Why doesn't Farage get this pressure to resign The answer is the Tory Press.

Very good from @verybrexitproblems.bsky.social

Be Conservative on Climate and Nature - Russel Norman's address to the Blue Greens Conference - Greenpeace Aotearoa Russel Norman's address to the Blue Greens Conference

In the lead up to the 2023 election, I addressed the National Party's Blue Green forum. I invited them to be truly conservative on nature and the climate. Instead the coalition govt they lead has engaged in a radical War on Nature. Here is the speech I gave. www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...

No United fan here but this is bang on.

I'd dare to suggest that this prick's life has been enhanced as opposed impacted by the presence of immigrants in the UK. An utter blowhard.

Most economic damage from gas crisis 'locked in', officials warn Big industrials are slated to close or switch off gas whether or not the proposed LNG terminal goes ahead, new modelling has found

The transition away from fossil gas in NZ is already well underway. The job of a responsible govt is to manage the transition. Instead Luxon dumped the gas transition policies and is throwing subsidies at fossil fuels to try to stop the inevitable. newsroom.co.nz/2026/02/12/m...

"Work hard and endure poverty so that you may be rewarded in heaven in the next life. In acknowledging the rags that you and your family wear which I accept are likely your Sunday best, it would still be great if you could pop your donation on the tray on your way out."

Robert Tressel (abridged)

Changing voter eligibility
Gaslighting the left with a media on the right
Dragging up the Reserve Bank COVID past
Lying like cheap watches
Giving Trump and the oil and gas industry a reacharound.
Buying votes using Sunny Kuchal as broker

Sold out fair pay for women and much more besides

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Great insight but why oh why did he email you? 🤔😂