Barry Brill - NZ Climate Policy: A Conspiracy of Silence

"When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?" – J M Keynes

Back in 2022, I wrote about "The overdue retraction of a giant lie" – the UN's quiet admission that its future global temperature forecasts had been wildly exaggerated and needed to be halved.

A.E. Thompson: Racist Control of New Zealand Psychologists

I draw your attention to public documents from the New Zealand Psychological Society, the New Zealand College of Clinical Psychologists and the New Zealand Psychologists Board.

The New Zealand College of Clinical Psychologists (NZCCP) is currently pushing workshops called 'Te Tiriti O Waitangi Informed Psychology in Aotearoa' (see https://nzps.gecco.co.nz/event-manager/ViewEvent/220).

Caleb Anderson: Postmodern mischief and the dismantling of truth

Postmodernism has turned the world as we know it on its head, it has unsettled the western political order, compromised our institutions, contaminated our universities, and undermined objectivity and reason.

Postmodernism's greatest danger is its denial of a universal human nature, seeing this, in spite of compelling historical and scientific evidence to the contrary, as primarily socially, rather than biologically, determined.

Heather du Plessis-Allan: Are we a bit harsh on Gen Z?

Unusually for me, I feel like I should come to the defence of Gen Z.

These are the kids aged 14-29. We complain a lot about them, about how soft they are, how they lack resilience, and what a bunch of complainers they are.

Breaking Views Update: Week of 31.5.26

Saturday June 6, 2026 

News:
Iwi owing DOC $2m in campground revenue welcomes external review
A North Island iwi estimated to owe the Department of Conversation (DOC) nearly $2m in campground revenue says it welcomes an external review.

RNZ revealed last week that DOC had launched an external investigation following concerns regarding relationships with iwi and processes such as procurement and debt management.

John McLean: Performative Parsimony

Pretending to care when squandering others’ money

The latest thespian to act as if he’s outraged about public service wastage of ratepayer and taxpayer money is the Wellington City Council’s Deputy Mayor, Ben McNulty.

Peter Dunne: Post Budget

Parliament rose late last Saturday evening after a marathon period of Urgency passing legislation relating to last week's Budget and other matters. This was not unusual – Parliament usually goes into Urgency for a couple of days after a Budget.

Brendan O'Neill: We are right to feel rage over the death of Henry Nowak

The elites want to crush the working-class fury over this vile murder – don’t let them.

Are you raging over the death of Henry Nowak? Has the horror of that boy’s slaying, the lynching-like savagery of it, incensed you? Did you feel molten fury as you watched the bodycam footage of those lowlife officers dragging Henry across the harsh gravel? Were you consumed by wrath seeing this dying boy be libelled as a racist by his killer? If so, then according to the chattering classes you are tantamount to a fascist. It is you and your febrile emotions that pose the truest threat to the nation, even more so than knife-wielding scum like Vickrum Digwa.

Roger Partridge: Why the Left Keeps Misdiagnosing Populism

This column was first published by CapX, the online newspaper of London’s Centre for Policy Studies, on 3 June 2026. It was written for a British audience, but the diagnostic mistake it identifies is universal.

Andy Burnham has one prescription, and he means to fill it, whatever the patient walks in with. The man with the broken arm, the woman with chest pains, the child with a fever: each leaves the surgery with the same pad of repeat scripts, which call for higher taxes on the rich, more generous benefits, and the nationalisation of something.

Dr Oliver Hartwich: The performative politician who paved Ardern’s way

When I read last week that Tony Blair had published a 5,600-word essay on everything that ails Britain, every instinct told me not to read it. But I could not help myself and read it anyway.

The essay, published by Blair’s own institute, covers the world order, AI, China, the transatlantic alliance and the Labour Party’s future. It is a grand “world explanation” piece, just as one would expect from Sir Tony. His arguments are lucid, his diagnosis sharp, and the prose, as always with Blair, elegant.

Simon O'Connor: China's bullying on full display

China's decision to sanction New Zealand MPs for visiting Taiwan is outrageous, yet how New Zealand's parliament and political leadership responds will be even more insightful and important.

This is a joint opinion piece written by myself and Louisa Wall. She and I are both former Members of Parliament, and the founding co-chairs in New Zealand for the Interparliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC).

As I share on Substack today, The Post have kindly shared our thoughts while other legacy media outlets have chosen to ignore.

The sanctioning of four New Zealand Members of Parliament for visiting Taiwan is a matter of serious concern, not simply for those individuals, but for the integrity and independence of New Zealand’s democratic institutions.

Kerre Woodham: The police have earned the right to bear arms

I wanted to start today with a landmark study from Monash University. It's found that a routine arming of police officers does not lead to a spike in trigger happy coppers. In fact, after Aussie coppers were armed in the early 1990s, there was a downward trend in shooting rates. The research, which investigated 50 years of officer-involved shootings in Australia between 1970 and 2020, challenges the prevailing assumption that increased firearm availability among police inevitably results in higher rates of lethal force. And I think that assumption exists here.

Bob Edlin: Let’s listen to Dame Lynda on the matter of Defence spending....

Let’s listen to Dame Lynda on the matter of Defence spending – Bob Jones (who contributed to NZ Ballet) was dismissive, too

Bob Jones created his libertarian New Zealand Party in 1983 out of disgust with the Muldoon-led National Government’s policies, such as wage and price freezes. And Supplementary Minimum Prices (SMPs), the government-funded agricultural subsidy scheme introduced in 1978 to guarantee floor prices for pastoral products like meat and wool.

Friday June 5, 2026 

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Heather du Plessis-Allan: The Opportunity Party could be the dark horse of the election

I'm not one to get excited at election time about the outside chance that small parties like Opportunity make it into Parliament.

But I reckon this year is different. If Opportunity plays this right, they might just do it.

Yesterday’s Roy Morgan poll had them at 6%.

Stuart Smith: Are We Captured by the Bureaucracy?

Voters elect members of parliament, mayors and councillors to make decisions, set priorities and keep a tight rein on spending. But over my political career, I’ve observed too many instances where real power seems to sit with the bureaucracy that writes the reports, sets the agenda and controls the information. It is fair to ask: have some elected representatives been captured by the machines they are supposed to lead?

Ani O'Brien: Henry Nowak was dying; police didn't believe him

The cost of identity politics

The murder of Henry Nowak should be a cultural turning point, a wake up call, a trigger to reset the moral compass in Britain. On its face, it is the story of an 18 year old university student stabbed to death while walking home after a night out. That alone is tragic and would warrant UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s commentary on knife crime. Yet what has made Henry’s death reverberate so powerfully across Britain and the rest of the West, despite initial total silence from the media, is not merely the brutality and senselessness of the attack itself. It is the extraordinary sequence of events that followed, and what those events reveal about the institutions that are supposed to protect us. What’s more, the terrible event underscores a growing problem that our elites do not want to address and get deeply uncomfortable about, that is the scourge of anti-white racism.

Guest Post: Littlewood and the Treaty - How we are being taken to the cleaners

Guest Post by the Cantabrian on Brash & Mitchell.

The controversy around the Waitangi Tribunal, the rapid growth of Maori attempts to exert authority over the government and country, and the question of the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi omits one major and crucial element - The 'Littlewood Treaty'.

It has always been a source of debate that there are two official versions of the Treaty - Te Tiriti O Waitangi in Maori and the Treaty of Waitangi in English. There are significant differences between the two documents. One of the functions of the Waitangi Tribunal is the exclusive authority to determine the meaning and effect of the Treaty as embodied in the 2 texts and to decide issues raised by the differences between them. (Treaty of Waitangi Act 1975, s 5 (2).)

Pee Kay: And they thought ex mayor Hazelhurst was bad!

Tuesdays announcement by Local Government minister Simon Watts that legislation will be passed that strips unelected appointees of their power to vote on your council committee, as expected, all the usual suspects leapt to the cell phone to call their favourite journalist.

Hasting Mayor was no exception!

Bob Edlin: A lot of fuss about a simple Bill......

A lot of fuss about a simple Bill – its purpose (to make English an official language) is spelled out in 22 words

A researcher and computational linguist says the government’s push to make English an official language raises a question of “what exactly is English being protected from?”.

But that invites another question: why should English have to be protected from something to be entrenched as an official language?