Jim Marr

Matthew Hooton's column should have been illustrated with this. He talked abt Sweden's death toll without mentioning it was NINE TIMES bigger than ours. He dismissed deaths in other countries as mainly being older people, so it would have been ok for us to have heaps of older folks die? Ghoul.

NZ has lined up with 'MAGA US states' on oil, former Marsden Point boss says While others are switching to renewables, we're "going down the 1980s path", David Keat says.

“Keat maintained the current global energy shock should be viewed as a strategic gift by the government.”

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'Most trusted' Kiwi food brand loses battle with supermarket duopoly Opinion: There's an untold story behind Heinz Wattie's proposal to close factories and restructure 350 staff, writes Jonathan Milne.

Kraft Heinz is not a NZ company. That said, New Zealand's supermarket structure needs a huge rark-up. I suspect the only way to value at the checkout is through a co-operative initially, at least, with Govt support. However, any alternative needs viable growers #nzpol newsroom.co.nz/2026/03/12/m...

Fingers out, Kiwis!

A Mini-Hoon with Chloe Swarbrick about fossil fuels, housing and fiscal strategy Green Co-Leader Chloe Swarbrick talks about the urgent need to decarbonise & provide housing, along with challenging the bipartisan assumptions & '30-30' arbitrary rules about size of Govt & debt/GDP.

Chloe Swarbrick calls on New Zealanders to increase their economic literacy so they understand the "utter BS" most politicians spout on the economy.

Here, she deals with the purely ideological 30/30 Rule that has held New Zealand back for decades #nzpol thekaka.substack.com/p/a-mini-hoo...

unknown YouTube video by The Kākā with Bernard Hickey

"it's really critical that across society people increase their economic literacy to understand the utter BS that so many politicians particularly the legacy parties are spreading when it comes to the appropriate size of government or debt as opposed to ... the purpose of those two things."
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The real lesson of the second Covid-19 inquiry? We live in a post-truth world Government ministers’ creative interpretations of the royal commission’s report took spin to scary new levels.

While Simeon Brown was happy to play fast and loose with Royal Commission facts, David Seymour opted, once again, to deliberately misled #nzpol thespinoff.co.nz/politics/11-...

An oil supply crisis will trigger a sovereignty crisis for NZ Opinion: If Middle East oil flows were seriously disrupted, the multibillion dollar costs and geopolitical impacts would hit NZ harder than most other OECD countries, yet we are less prepared, writes ...

Market system won't protect New Zealand's sovereignty newsroom.co.nz/2024/11/05/o... #nzpol

I must admit I'm surprised at how little the Royal Commission gave to vaccine opponents, some of whom saw this process as the thing that would vindicate them. Can't get much clearer than this.

NHS privatisation drive linked to rise in avoidable deaths, study suggests Outsourcing accelerated by Lansley's shakeup in 2012 linked to drop in care quality in landmark review

Hi hello what your article does not mention is that studies consistently show that private sector involvement in public health lead to poorer health outcomes and perhaps, as a novel idea, we should just adequately fund our public health system as a 101 requirement for a functioning democracy 🤔

Dozens killed as Israeli special forces raid Lebanese village in search of 40-year-old remains Overnight, one Israeli operation saw at least 41 people killed and 40 injured, according to the Lebanese health ministry.

The vile absurdity of it all.

Or Albo

France to boost nuclear arsenal, involve European allies in deterrence France will expand its nuclear arsenal and will potentially allow European partners to host its aircraft on nuclear deterrence ‌missions, President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday, signalling a major d...

Macron declares "fear" the only route to security. A self-fulfilling prophesy if ever there was one. What happened to the promise of nuclear-armed states to do everything in their powers to limit nuclear weapons? www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Minutes is generous

Dawn Chorus: Luxon clings on as inflation shock looms Luxon won't resign after poll shock; Oil over US$90/bbl overnight; Petrol over NZ$3/l in some areas; Freight cost warning after diesel rises 44c/l; Pak n'Save buying US butter; Dialysis rationing

“Christchurch Hospital has started rationing dialysis to two sessions per week from three because of a Government-imposed sinking lid on spending to ensure Crown spending to GDP gets down below 30%, 1News reported last night” #nzpol

TVNZ Sport is woeful - no news sense at all - zero

Twenty years on: The shocking numbers behind the Iraq war Trillion-dollar war. Hundreds of thousands dead. Zero weapons of mass destruction. Maryam Zakir-Hussain reports on the numbers behind the war

Why Luxon and Peters are not pressing Trump to justify war -https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iraq-war-bush-twentieth-anniversary-b2302031.html

Luck, legacy and a hot dog: Kiwi trainer’s winning recipe As two of her star gallopers line up in New Zealand’s richest race this weekend, the NZB Kiwi, trainer Pam Gerard aims to carry on the vision – and rituals – of her late mentor

Suzanne McFadden does some great work, but, Australian Mike Moroney? I'm inclined to blame subs, or the lack of them #racing newsroom.co.nz/2026/03/06/l...

Over two/thirds is how I would phrase it

Talley’s takes defamation fight vs TVNZ to next level MediaRoom: Top legal minds will decide if a judge or a major corporation are correctly watching disputed 1News stories as an “ordinary reasonable viewer” would. Tim Murphy reports.

Talley's opens its wallet to launch another volley against homegrown journalism newsroom.co.nz/2026/03/03/t...

Luxon - doubling down on his capacity for oafish dishonesty - announces New Zealand is outsourcing its right to make principled decisions on Middle East war to the country that blatantly lied to kick off the 2003 Iraq war that cost hundreds of thousands of lives

Government ‘kicked the tyres’ on solar subsidies but went with ‘minor’ tweaks instead It is one of the cheapest ways to cut power bills - yet documents reveal the government shelved a subsidy.

Very timely article by @kirstyjohnston.bsky.social on this government’s idiotic energy “strategy”

Government ‘kicked the tyres’ on solar subsidies but went with ‘minor’ tweaks instead www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

New Zealand needs to stop this divisive, society-shredding rubbish. Any Labour Party worth supporting should be making a clear, coherent commitment to strengthening public education and health #nzpol

Government ‘kicked the tyres’ on solar subsidies but went with ‘minor’ tweaks instead It is one of the cheapest ways to cut power bills - yet documents show the government shelved a subsidy package.

Government ‘kicked the tyres’ on solar subsidies but went with ‘minor’ tweaks instead

The bare-faced corruption involved in this is extraordinary. Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law who promised not to do any future govt work, showed up as lead US negotiator with Iran, with 2 billion Saudi dollars boosting his private company's bank account

Luxon flounders on Iran as Opposition pushes for principled response
The Prime Minister has left unanswered questions about what ‘red lines’ – if any – his Government has on US-led strikes on Iran
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BREAKING
It’s been revealed that the Luxon government ‘kicked the tyres’ on game-changing solar subsidies to cut power bills but decided to let us keep paying rising prices - and then to make it even worse with costly gas imports:
www.rnz.co.nz/news/top/588...

4 iran analysis stories on the Stuff home page, only the one about a Kiwi family in the Gulf is not a telegraph reprint.

3 of these 4 stories are reprints from the Telegraph. Outsourcing foreign policy analysis to a paper as nakedly ideological as that - and not informing readers until the END of the analysis - is A Choice that I think reflects poorly on stuff.

Ooof, after Luxon’s RNZ interview this morning I didn’t think it could get worse.

It got soo much worse:

😬😬😬

#nzpol