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Were we watching the same debate?
Round one of the Chris v Chris debate season played out last night on TVNZ. Ben Thomas was in the pundit capsule. Toby Manhire was in the studio. Ann…
8 hours ago
The debate explosion
The Kingmakers’ Debate is the highest-profile of a burst of events in the first full-throttle week of the 2026 campaign. How did the party leaders do…
5 days, 5 hours ago
Why won’t Christopher Luxon go on Q+A? We asked Jack Tame
Here’s a taste of our new podcast, At Large with Toby Manhire: this week Jack Tame came in to talk about how he’s preparing to host the first leaders…
6 days, 3 hours ago
What is this election really about?
Parliament has disgorged its politicians ahead of a Super Sunday of campaign launches, with just a month and a day until advance voting begins. Toby …
1 week, 5 days ago
Fifty days out, the campaign ignites
Just when you thought the two main parties were fixed on a do-little election, the National Party bursts out the triangulator and gazumps its Labour …
2 weeks, 5 days ago
Only 64 more days of tax, tax, tax, tax, tax, tax, tax, tax, tax
This just in: we have nine more weeks of this. Can National's indefatigable campaign manager Simeon Brown sustain the unremitting tax focus all the w…
1 month ago
Luxon vs Brown, and how the govt fell so violently out of love with localism
Christopher Luxon sailed into NZ politics six years ago as a champion of localism. Since becoming prime minister, his government has fallen deeply ou…
1 month, 1 week ago
Post-coup chat, with guest star Chris Penk
In the nine days since he stared down his second caucus uprising within just a few months, Christopher Luxon has really bounced back. Toby Manhire, A…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Emergency pod: Do you get déjà coup?
Christopher Luxon has survived a showdown vote in caucus, a lot like he survived a showdown vote in caucus in April. Toby Manhire, Annabelle Lee-Math…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
What is Mr Luxon doing?
It should have been a good day for the National Party. Instead, it was derailed by the latest bit of riffing by Christopher Luxon, in declaring, prom…
2 months ago