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Back to SearchSomeone take away Stuart Nash's phone, please
The resurrection of former Labour minister Stuart Nash has come to an end, much like Icarus, with Winston Peters accepting his resignation as a NZ Fi…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Are the Oppies unstoppable?
The Opportunity Party has shot up to the threshold fun zone, with Qiulae Wong at the helm and running a line as an alternative to NZ First. Will the …
2 months, 4 weeks ago
Jamboree season in an election year
Fresh from the bright lights and bitter recriminations of the National, Labour and Act party bashes, Lyric Waiwiri-Smith and Joel MacManus join Toby …
3 months ago
Unhappy families
The gun for election 2026 was fired with great fury and much shrapnel on Sunday, with National campaign manager Simeon Brown sparing almost no one. A…
3 months, 1 week ago
At Large with Toby Manhire: Britain’s great big prime minister problem, continued
Keir Starmer has walked out from Downing Street and said it’s all over, meaning Andy Burnham is almost certain to be the next UK PM, the seventh sinc…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Hardcore lobbying and the emotional senior staffer
The story of Mike Smith's climate court action, the parliamentary response, and hard-copy briefings from lobbyists that went mysteriously missing has…
4 months ago
Budget special with Bernard Hickey
Bernard dashes out of the lockup to patch in to the studio and talk through with Toby the top lines from today's budget, the rosy economic forecasts …
4 months, 1 week ago
Live at Auckland Writers Festival with Tova O'Brien guest star
In a special six-months-to-the-election edition, Toby, Annabelle and Ben, joined by a special surprise guest who may or may not be the brilliant Tova…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Jane Wrightson on Super squabbles, Seymour and the state of the media
In a special edition of Gone By Lunchtime, Toby talks to Jane Wrightson, who is retiring after two terms as retirement commissioner. She shares her t…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
The book everyone, politicians especially, should read in 2026
In a bonus episode of Gone By Lunchtime, Toby Manhire talks to Asher Emanuel, author of The Valley: Crime and Punishment in a New Zealand City. A gri…
4 months, 3 weeks ago