Getting our mojo back, baby! / Toitū te Tiriti 🇳🇿

Winston successfully navigating his eight seat minority Govt through to the election by sheer force of will.

Unless the PM-ship is conferred on Peters & he goes full-throttle nativist nationalise-the-powercos think-big on us.

ie zero green shoots on the horizon in any scenario.

Yes everyone hates Luxon but it's the Govt's policies that have gotten us in this shit & the policies are unlikely to change more than an iota* regardless of whoever the new National leader PM is.

*coalition agteement etc

Look I don't follow sport much but is the current Black Ferns 7s the best sports team Aotearoa's ever produced?

269K views · 6.1K reactions | I promise this story about microwaves is interesting. - I found an article that said "The microwave was invented to heat hamsters humanely in 1950s experiments." And I th... I promise this story about microwaves is interesting. - I found an article that said "The microwave was invented to heat hamsters humanely in 1950s experiments." And I thought, no it wasn't. ...was it...

OK OK, here's the source:
www.facebook.com/reel/8547115...

TIL

Just remembering how Luxon bought a new Tesla EV when there was a Clean Car Discount, then cancelled the policy so others couldn't do it, and is now canning the Clean Car Standards and adding a new tax to petrol.

What a guy.

#nzpol

Sure Luxon's toast but I'm still struggling with exactly who is capable of saving the day for National.
That's a staggeringly low-quality caucus they have there.

On Whangārei Harbour Fyi

Nice to be among anti-fascists.

Free camping at the Parua bay boat club & and it really is a quite wonderful place to stay.

Wealthy Dubai residents race back to UAE to avoid tax bills Some risk spending too few days in the emirate and too many in the UK

Tax exiles stuck in London desperately trying to get *back* to Dubai to avoid becoming tax resident in the UK? Just great stuff. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Social Development Minister says nothing suggests Gloriavale children unsafe following visit Louise Upston visited Gloriavale on 30 January where she met Overseeing Shepherd Stephen Standfast, senior leaders and other Gloriavale members.

Apropos of nothing, I'm reminded of that time the Red Cross visited the Theresienstadt concentration camp and came away saying everything was hunky dory...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theresi...

www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Has there been ANY local political analysis of how Australia & Canada are deepening ties, and how New Zealand doesn't seem to be involved?

I mean, on the face of it this is quite significant (and more-so that whether Mr Luxon's feelings have ben hurt by reaction to his media-briefing incoherence)

Also zero mentions of how any other party fared in that poll. Very strange.

Visualising him and Luke with their own desk in the corner of the room.

‘He's not going anywhere’: Justice Minister backs PM Luxon ahead of dire new poll The poor rating follows weeks of criticism of Christopher Luxon’s leadership.

Old Tom Coughlan has an un paywalled story in the herald this morning about a bad poll for National, and he quotes numerous Nat mps but zero ppl from outside the party & you really get the feeling he’s literally embedded in the Nat caucus these days.

www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

Of course VPNs are illegal in China, where pretty much everyone uses a VPN.

That would involve watching it in the first place?

Trump was elected almost a year and a half ago. It’s over a year since he made *that* speech that effectively ended the post WW2 consensus.
Now, name me one strategic thing the govt has done in that time to secure our place in the post rules-based world we’re now living in.
Happy to wait.

Our government is so completely flounderingly useless it couldn’t even get invited to this

What if the table folds out from the wall?

This is rather different from the Belgrano.

Thanks for the review. Apple has finally given me a reason to move on from my trusty 11 yr old MBA.

Who is the Chair of TVNZ and why haven't they resigned yet?

Hook everyone on a gigantic house ponzi scheme & milk NZers for mortgage payments 4EVA.

Investing in homegrown solar and wind energy is now a matter of national security.

Kirikiriroa post!
Bic Runga is playing at the fabulous new Waikato theatre on March 21st!
Tickets are cheap as chips - from 80 bucks.
This will be a fantastic performance!
Maybe even have dinner or a drink at the plush Hamilton Hotel out front before the show.

Live nation for tix.

At this early stage, Boris Johnson is ahead of Christopher Luxon as worst PM (not counting 2 ties lol).

Have your say. Which of these dreadful PMs was the worst?