Canβt see him being recruited onto any boards on merit after this job. Will rely on favours.
02.03.2026 10:04 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Canβt see him being recruited onto any boards on merit after this job. Will rely on favours.
02.03.2026 10:04 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I've been to Zeeland it's not that flash TBH.
02.03.2026 08:27 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Stroopwafels would be a lot more popular here if βNew Zealandβ was as important to our identity as Winston Peters seems to think.
02.03.2026 08:15 β π 6 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0for now..
02.03.2026 09:36 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Four minutes of Helen Clark talking sense.
Australiaβs current Labour PM is nothing at all like how Labour used to be, in both countries.
His only hope of a cushy governance job would be someone owing him one politically. On merits he would not be hired for any board.
02.03.2026 08:40 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0βCertainly, thatβs a question that should be asked of the prime minister and defence ministers - would they put boots on the ground to back an illegal invasionβ - Helen Clark. #NzPol
02.03.2026 08:13 β π 33 π 11 π¬ 0 π 1Iβve got an issue with the technical language in your last post: when you say βit would be very unusual to see an economic recovery start like thisβ donβt you actually mean βit would be fucking miraculous to see an economic recovery start like thisβ ?
01.03.2026 04:02 β π 14 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0Now, there's all sorts of other stuff going on here (fx, bank profit extraction etc), but at the headline level, the net inflow of cash into the economy looks to have slowed to a crawl. It would be very unusual to see an economic recovery start like this. [Ends]
01.03.2026 02:23 β π 29 π 5 π¬ 3 π 1RNZ adds background about the conditions and reaction from some key people to Health NZ's moves.
02.03.2026 07:35 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Image of busy walking street with shops on the ground floor and other uses (offices, apartments) above. The text line says βWait, weβre afraid of walkable distances now?β Tag line of the Urban Truth Collective at the bottom.
Conspiracy lovers and opportunistic politicians, with some wealthy folks working behind the scenes, have been trying REALLY hard to make us scared of the simple idea of having more things nearby, and more choices in how to get them.
Weird, right? #UrbanTruth
ππ― Once again, what are we supposed to make now of all the handwringing from G7 countries about the crisis of the liberal international order? Davos, it seems, was all performance art: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
02.03.2026 07:02 β π 58 π 19 π¬ 1 π 0New Zealand needed better leadership than it chose during this time.
02.03.2026 07:01 β π 14 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Yep, overseeing the party's Auckland newsletter
02.03.2026 07:07 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0on fire
02.03.2026 07:05 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
This clip is a new low for Luxon.
He's so very bad at this.
And his comms team?
Surely it's not that hard to knock up a script along the lines of "yeah Iran is an awful regime but we'd have preferred parties to continue negotiating rather than bombing each other" to get him off the hook?
Amateurs.
Henry Cooke has developed the devastating tactic of "asking a follow up question" which the NZ Prime Minister is not programmed for.
02.03.2026 06:07 β π 113 π 19 π¬ 6 π 1He's really, really bad at this. Good work by Henry taking him at his word and asking an entirely logical follow-up question on that basis.
02.03.2026 06:05 β π 120 π 20 π¬ 20 π 0Leaving aside how bad the performance of the PM was here, Iβd just like to point out the worst atrocities committed were because human beings had decided that any action against a foe was a righteous one and morally justified.
02.03.2026 05:59 β π 58 π 10 π¬ 4 π 1
The current government is selling off the sections the previous government purchased from the council. Sold in good faith.
Sections in the area start at $400k for 390m2. Some happy developers I bet.
#NZPol
www.beehive.govt.nz/release/gove...
Hold on, was Luxon just literally repeating the exact same words the Australians used??? Like he's not just refusing to take a stance he's cheating on the exam????? Wow
02.03.2026 06:43 β π 19 π 6 π¬ 0 π 0clearly
02.03.2026 05:27 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
".. as New Zealand we have had a long-standing commitment under successive governments that any actions that stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon is a good thing.β - Luxon.
Previous PMs will disagree that carte blanche ever applied. #NzPol
A few New Zealanders unafraid to express a position about the attacks on and by Iran, unlike our PM.
02.03.2026 04:28 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Health NZ removes misinformation it had added about a group of disorders often not diagnosed or treated properly in NZ.
02.03.2026 04:09 β π 11 π 2 π¬ 1 π 1Will have been sniffing out US job openings during those international trips.
02.03.2026 03:36 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Rate caps are designed to stop that.
02.03.2026 03:23 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Unfortunately, the Nats do this every time they're in Govt.
Which is why every time a Left Govt gets elected, it's back to square one with state housing.
And also why the next Left Govt NEEDS TO SHIFT THE BLOODY OVERTON WINDOW FOR CHRISSAKES.
Heβll be gagging for it due to some wild religious fringe belief about the second coming or something
02.03.2026 03:21 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 2 π 0zendaya and tom reportedly got married recently. mazel! (but years ago we all knew it was for keeps)
02.03.2026 02:41 β π 704 π 97 π¬ 31 π 9