One of the most devastating critiques of PM Luxon you will hear, and its worse because it comes from a real businessman.
Chris Barret is not one of those male wokesters or DEI females that head up NZ's cronyist govt owned businesses. Air NZ and the power companies. He heads Steel Worx.
Its a real business, he's a real director and he's far from happy. Especially over what Mr Luxon said in Rotorua last week.
A lifetime National voter, Mr Barret says he's not voting for them this election. He wants a coaltion made up of the existing parties, but National with far less power.
Which seems to be the way a lot of people are thinking.
On the other hand, this is getting serious. We can't put National out of the picture altogether, or fall to the point Labour/ Greens can win.
Someone needs to get a handle on things at the Nats. If indeed there is anyone there capable of doing so.
@MtnViewsCO Cars are poor shields against rifle rounds… would almost certainly not work well… I generally agree tho, there’s way too many people filming instead of helping these days.
More than six weeks after the Oxford Union promised to publish my June debate speech, the full video is still being withheld — while extracts of their own footage of the debate have appeared elsewhere, heavily edited.
I filmed my own speech with the Union’s knowledge and agreement as an insurance policy and backup. So I’m publishing it myself. They must release the entire debate.
Should the West be suspicious of Islam?
John Cleese and Rowan Atkinson feel like the last two adults left in the room.
For years they’ve been saying the quiet part out loud: free speech matters, humour is not a crime, and a society that cannot laugh at itself is already sick.
And for that simple, decent stance they have been dragged through the cancellation machine.
These are not angry ideologues.
They are two men who just wanted to make people laugh and tell the truth.
Instead they have been treated like heretics smeared, isolated, and told to sit down and shut up by people who once claimed to love satire.
The British humour they helped create the kind that was razor sharp, fearless, and never cruel for the sake of it has almost disappeared.
That humour didn’t just entertain us.
It made us stronger. It taught us not to take ourselves so seriously. It gave us thicker skin.
Now that skin is being deliberately stripped away, and the only ones still trying to protect it are the ones the culture keeps trying to cancel.
Cleese and Atkinson never asked to be heroes.
They just refused to pretend.
And in an age of mass pretending, that alone makes them extraordinary.
Michael Laws delivers an incredible and charismatic address at the 2026 NZ First convention 🇳🇿
Some quotes below 👇
"Ideology is the enemy of common sense. If you’ve substituted ideology for evidence and experience, you haven’t become a thinking person—you’ve become a religious fanatic."
"We’ve become dominated by big government, big business, and big media. The political system has largely run for their benefit, against the interests of the common man and woman."
"I’ve watched the mainstream media of this country decide that the facts need to fit the ideology rather than just simply report what the facts are"
"We are a party of free speech. We are a party of free thought. We are a party of freedom of expression"
These are not the words of a New Zealand leader. This dishonours generations of Kiwis who built the country his FTA will plunder. He repeats the line at Spark Arena.
There was update on Stephen Ogilvie last night.
The doctors said it was looking good and he was a fighter. They tried to bring him out of the coma but he didn’t do well so they had to induce him again.
They’re going to try and take him out gradually to see how it goes.
His throat has had to be stapled from one side to the other, he’s lost his left eye and socket completely, he had 2 surgeries yesterday to rebuild his nose.
The doctors are now focusing on the swelling in his face.
Keep praying for him and his family. 🙏🙏🙏
This is Henry's older sister, Olivia Nowak
She called her brother her "best friend" and said they had "an unbreakable bond" in a statement following his death
Pray for her
🚨🇬🇧 "We've just been ATTACKED by someone RACIALLY."
Police have released the 999 call that led to the ARREST of Henry Nowak while he was lying in a pool of his own BLOOD.
Digwa used anti-racism hysteria knowing they'd arrest a dying man.