Is sub-30% for both Labour and National just the new normal? One MMP veteran reckons it might be. By Toby Manhire | 11th September, 2026Editor-at-large
Can Labour up the ante after getting outflanked by National on KiwiSaver?Sam Stubbs says he'd be 'stunned' if there was not a bold response.By Toby Manhire | 8th September, 2026Editor-at-large
The calls on the right to ‘rort’ MMP by engineering a National Party overhangAdvocates include a former National leader, a high-profile NZ First candidate and a billionaire donor. By Toby Manhire | 8th September, 2026Editor-at-large
The future diplomat who let down Muldoon’s tyres the night he called a snap election‘I think we deserve a medal for it,’ says Tim Groser of his role in the great Triumph sabotage of 1984.By Toby Manhire | 4th September, 2026Editor-at-large
Simeon Brown pulled out of a senior doctors’ conference. Here’s what they’d have told him‘We're not finding spaces to have an intelligent and ongoing conversation about how we want our health system to be.’By Toby Manhire | 3rd September, 2026Editor-at-large
The strange campaign of 2026, as seen from November 8As we wake on the morning after election night, let's look back at a remarkable few months. By Toby Manhire | 2nd September, 2026Editor-at-large
The man who made the election electricWhy is everyone jumping on the rooftop-solar wagon?By Toby Manhire | 31st August, 2026Editor-at-large
What the election slogans say – and what they whisperIt is slogan season in election year – and the party choices are evocative, in more ways than one.By Toby Manhire | 27th August, 2026Editor-at-large
What has Chris Penk been up to since getting sacked?‘Baby-yak-like activities,’ he tells The Spinoff's politics podcast.By Toby Manhire | 21st August, 2026Editor-at-large
Left, right or centre? How voters view the Opportunity PartyThis is what people are telling pollsters. By Toby Manhire | 20th August, 2026Editor-at-large