'Nasty bit of work.....but one of the last of the grown ups.

Marks is absolute class...LBC is doing what the BBC is shit scared to even try.

MMP was supposed to protect us...Lab need to really be framing this as what it is, which will become more extreme as election approaches.
Hateful that this is, Winston says anything to get his vote and I don't think he believes half of his crap, unlike ACT(& Nats) who really are on a mission.

It's bleak...NZF are pitching to be Kiwi "MAGA", which will revolt most NZers but could well deliver a solid 20%...the hard-wired bigot vote. ACT are aiming at the "Project2025"(TechBro) economic side of MAGA, & likely to get nearer 10%...Nats along for the ride.

I'm Lefty Lab to the core...but the worst conceivable outcome in Election '26 would be a Nat/ACT Coalition (sans NZF)...they'd turn NZ into a heartless dystopian hell hole. As bad(& corrupt) as NZF is, in a Right leaning Coalition, they are a bulwark against NeoLib(ertarian) max...on steroids!

Events of the last few days have convinced me we're in the last week's - if not days - of the Trump Presidency.....'not quite sure of the exact exit from Office, but an intervention must be close?

Id generally agree, but NATOs looking a bag-o-shite, & that UK "independent" Nuclear deterrent likely bricked without its software update from the Pentagon......so Zacks almost on the money here.

Not necessarily....this level of Dangerous & Mad should not be able to travel freely & openly outside the borders of the USA....who knows what could happen...planes do mysteriously fall out of the sky...'just saying.

ZB did same.....it was like a reverse of the old Lab Govt days when nearly every Govt announcement created "National condems..." Headlines.

Personally, & as a Lefty, I was relatively comfortable with US as "Top Dog" geopolitics...but I hadn't figured on a Trump, nor at how fragile US Democratic system was.

Why does Toby Young even exist?
His whole pathetic life is defined as a reaction against his more successful Lefty Dad.....a father/son version of the Hitchen brothers.

I always thought the Presidential Pardons were odd, like something out of the Court of a Medieval King, but they were generally confined to the Leader leaving Office.
Trump's turned it into a weekly Ka-ching $$$ earner....is there precedent for this?

"internal bleeding"???
He didn't even drop his phone or lose target with his gun?

But Greenland would only need "protecting" in a lawless world where the powerful just grab whatever they want without consequence..............Oh!

I thought,in the US, you all had guns (under the Constitution) to stop exactly this sort of thing???

You'll be woken by partying in the streets....the whole world would be celebrating...even 2/3s of the GoP would be (on the inside,anyway).