His summer break may only be 20 minutes long, but Christopher Luxon goes into it grinning, on the back of a 1News/Verian poll that suggests a swing from right to left, various data suggesting boosted economic confidence, and a chapter in which he (maybe) stared down a (maybe) coup. All of that is Christmassy enough, but what else? Snipping the ribbon on the biggest green (and yellow-and-blue) shoot of them all: Ikea.

In a new episode of Gone By Lunchtime, Toby Manhire, Annabelle Lee-Mather and Ben Thomas chew it all over, plus: poor poll numbers for the Greens and Te Pāti Māori, as TPM limp through an AGM with their future in the balance.

Another big reforming swing from Chris Bishop with two new bumper bills to replace the Resource Management Act; how will this look and what does it mean for iwi Māori?

And how did former Police Commissioner Andrew Coster fare in his feature-length interview for Q+A?