David Lormans

Apparently* Damien Grant is dissing Aotearoa's Covid response in Stuff today on behalf of his sponsors, and he somehow decided Sweden spent zero money on theirs.
It spend THE SAME AS NZ BUT LOST 20,000 EXTRA LIVES.

Thanks Stuff for printing more ace punditry.

*Not reading - rather eat my own sick

Seven years since the Christchurch massacre. Still can’t get my head around how people shrug their shoulders about it. It will always horrify and sadden me. RIP

Luxon to be bestowed honorary matai title in Samoa, at his request The title, which Luxon would receive on Monday, the Samoa PM said, was, ‘Tui-Sinave-ma-Ulumotootua’.

"at his request" - that is some shaaaaaaade

My youngest son had a suspected concussion and when they asked him he paused and said “that asshole!” The nurse nodded.

The giant iguanas at the earths core wouldn’t like it

Herbs - AudioCulture In the mid 1970s the founding members of Herbs – Toni Fonoti, Spencer Fusimalohi and Fred Faleauto – were playing in a band called Backyard. They asked Dilworth Karaka to join, and considered renaming...

This is very special – at the Pasifika Festival tomorrow members of Herbs, and friends, will be playing a 20 minute live set of Herbs classics.
This is a special dedication to Dilworth Karaka from two of Herbs' original founders: Toni Fonoti and Spencer...
www.audioculture.co.nz/profile/herbs

can this be a solution?

Marty Mauser is the most profoundly unlikable protagonist I think I’ve ever seen in a film. And I know people will argue that he’s supposed to be unlikable, but the movie seems to want me to believe he went through some sort of character journey and is a better person toward the end of it. I do not.

Those were the days! I remember them like it was only 7 days ago. Petrol was so cheap back then!

"We started a war of aggression for no reason & commenced it by accidentally bombing an elementary school & killing over 100 kids."

That simple fact is so horrific that it's just kind of bouncing on the surface of our collective consciousness. We can't absorb its full implications & significance.

Stuff headline The Covid immunity cycle: Why catching the virus is basically our new booster Lloyd Burr March 12, 2026 • 4:00am

🚨 If anyone has contacts at Stuff to get this headline updated urgently please do so.

Expert advice is that getting Covid repeatedly is not like building immunity, it's more like accumulating damage. Each infection raises your risk of long Covid and serious complications.

This is unacceptable.

Wow this is insane anti-vax capture yikes!

This seems like a good idea #nzpol

Totally unacceptable, but a predictable outcome of capitalism.

Greenpeace calls for government to drastically cut legal limit of nitrates in drinking water It comes after the Danish government significantly cut its legal limit.

Rural New Zealand's drinking water is being poisoned by dairy industry nitrate. People's health is threatened. And our Govt refuses to act.

We're calling for legal limits for drinking water nitrate to be lowered to under 1 mg/L - just as Denmark intends to do.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa... #nzpol

Govt looks to market to reach 10,000 EV charger goal Transport officials warn without more government money the country won’t reach its 2030 goal for EV chargers

Guess what? The Govs promise of 10,00 EV chargers was a LIE!?

I KID YOU NOT!

It seems they failed to allocate any money at all..

#nzpol

newsroom.co.nz/2026/03/10/g...

It's almost like the sanctions .. don't work!

Luxon’s diary blank for first three weeks of 2026 – but PM says he was working 'intensely' The Prime Minister says he was working “intensely” despite his diary not showing any entries for nearly the first three weeks of the year.

Luxon’s diary blank for first three weeks of 2026 – but PM says he was working 'intensely'

So he was camping then www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/politic...

These files confirm that Mandelson's malign influence runs through this Labour government.

Starmer knew exactly the choice he was making when he appointed him. He has to go.

someone should probably tell australia that granting asylum to a sports team while trying to ban refugees from *the exact same country* doesn't look good. In fact, it looks quite bad.

NZ'ers are paying $3 a litre for petrol. Did Luxon's Govt make this situation worse? Let's check the receipts:

1) They collapsed the EV market in NZ by killing the clean car discount + making fees to import gas guzzling cars nearly 80% cheaper. EV sales dropped 70% in NZ while globally sales rose

NZ First calls for inquiry into Covid-19 vaccine injuries, attacks Labour’s pandemic response New Zealand First leader Winston Peters and Minister of Health Simeon Brown have used Parliament’s Question Time to attack the Labour party’s Covid-19 response.

I'd recommend throwing a dildo at Peters but there isn't one big enough.

www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

What. A. Hypocrite. Or rather, a morally vacant grifter. Or both.

The polite term for Winston Peters is “utter piece of shit”.

NZ First calls for Covid-19 inquiry focused on vaccine injuries That comes after the second phase of the Royal Commission of Inquiry released its findings on Tuesday.

"Hundreds of thousands of people have been affected here." - Winston

Liar.

National's misrepresentation of the Covid Royal Commission's findings is some of the most pathetic, dishonest, and irresponsible campaigning NZ has seen. #nzpol

Anyone who says our Covid response was bad as opposed to one of a handful of the best responses in the world, doesn't understand the Covid Royal Commission's report and votes RW which is also caused by not understanding things #NZPol

New Zealand tackled Covid by going in early and hard, shutting the virus out until vaccines arrived and ending up with one of the lowest death rates anywhere #NZPol

Let's talk about what happens when oil prices go through the roof and stay there - because it really isn't pretty, it's going to hit our economy incredibly hard, and it's only peripherally about how much it costs to fill the tank.

A short 🧵

#nzpol

Herbs frontman and Pacific reggae pioneer Dilworth Karaka dies Karaka was the only constant member of Herbs across four decades, helping define Aotearoa’s Pacific reggae sound and its tradition of musical activism.

Musician Dilworth Karaka leaves us. 🇳🇿