Toby Manhire is the editor of the Spinoff. Where possible he collaborates with other people called Toby. Email him on toby@thespinoff.co.nz
To mark totemic resignation we asked a number of Leighton Smiths if they had a message for him.
That one of the world’s biggest companies rides roughshod over a New Zealand court name suppression tells you all you need to know about the giants of Silicon Valley, argues …
A sprint through the arguments for and against the immigration minister getting the boot.
The support party has called for a change in the law that sees incarcerated people ‘unjustifiably denied the right to vote’.
The justice minister says he’s keenly watching the UK-led inquiry into fake news and Facebook and backs calls for the company to be held accountable.
Parliaments including the UK, Australia, Canada and Brazil are waking up to the role of the social media giant. Why is NZ asleep?
‘Nine long years’ is a jazz standard in political debate. Using opinions and mathematics we have settled on the moment from which it is no longer acceptable to use this rhetorical device
Professor Juliet Gerrard on diversity in science, the political hot potatoes, and what constitutes science.
As Marcus Lush reveals ‘outrage about the NZME Christmas Party’, we launch our crowd-sourced investigation into the contemporary reality of the festive work do.
A new product from the upmarket US audio company promises to lull you to sleep. We take them to bed.
The big announcement was funding for 600 new staff in schools to assist students with learning needs as the prime minister addressed an adoring crowd at the Dunedin Town Hall
A year ago today, Bill English and Winston Peters formally tied the political knot. Toby Manhire assesses the first 12 months for the coalition and the challenge for Jacinda Ardern, leading a Labour Party left out in the cold again.
In a series of interviews this morning, a very high-ranking member of the National caucus has set the clock ticking
A new Colmar Brunton poll for TVNZ conducted in one of National's bleakest weeks makes tough reading both for the party and its leader.
Here are some of the issues an internal probe following the Jami Lee-Ross saga will confront.
In a week like no other in NZ politics, the Botany MP turned on his former party and its leader, going about as rogue as you can go
Even a unanimous vote by the National caucus to give the rebel MP may not be enough to save the leader
New Zealand’s methane emissions problem prompts a new analogy from Ardern: the moon landing
Jacinda Ardern pops by the Spinoff to talk about what's been achieved, what hasn't, and whether or not she's allowed to say 'Labour-led government'
A year on from the last election, and barely a breath before the next, we’re rebooting our politics coverage. Toby Manhire explains.
The latest international takes on the NZ PM underscore the scale of her achievement at the UN in New York last week
Monday night saw an unprecedented, large-scale census of Auckland's homeless population undertaken. Toby Manhire went out counting, with about 700 others
The prime minister sought to rally the troops and assert unity among the three parties of government today, but there wasn't much substance to get your teeth into
The entrepreneur says he accepted an offer a month ago, but it has been withdrawn following the controversy around a secret meeting and criticisms of his suitability
With business confidence having plunged, the PM goal this morning was to get them back onside over breakfast. How did she get on?
The PM designate, an evangelical Christian who used to run NZ Tourism, is not Peter Dutton
