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Christopher Luxon wants us to scrap a public holiday. But which one should go?
Which public holiday can we dispose of? Toby Manhire investigates.
NZ retailer keeps hawking bleach after Covid-infected user admitted to ICU
A Waikato man is still promoting and selling the 'Miracle Mineral Solution'.
Parliament occupation ringleader declares next 'mission': Marsden Point
Some of the those involved in the protest are seizing on the closure as their next focus.
Inaction on NZ 'Nuremberg' site sparks calls for overhaul of system
The site doesn't meet the 'very high threshold' for provisional suspension.
How the March 15 terror attacks 'sparked a wave of hatred' in Australia
OPNION: But how about New Zealand? What does it say about the online-offline interplay?
'The worry is being completely overwhelmed': NZ regions brace for a Covid summer
Toby Manhire asks the experts about the risks facing regional health systems.
Health watchdog demands 'urgent attention' after home isolation deaths
It comes after three deaths of Covid-positive people who were isolating at home.
The week the Govt's world-beating Covid response lost its way
OPINION: Jacinda Ardern's exceptional communication skills have left the building.
Facebook livestreams of PM's 1pm update swarmed by anti-vax misinformation
The benefits of reaching the wider audience outweigh the risk of damage, Ardern says.
New Zealand urgently needs a serious opposition leader
OPINION: Judith Collins' bizarre behaviour is not that of a leader in waiting.
Breaking: There is one new case of a disgraced politician in New Zealand
Hopes of curbing community transmission of political disgrace in New Zealand are fading.
Ardern: 'I'm not going to leave any room for doubt that I can do this'
The Prime Minister talks to Spinoff editor Toby Manhire about a year of big life changes.
Toby Manhire's Christmas carols
A tuneful farewell as columnist Toby Manhire signs off.
Ardern's year beyond a shadow of doubt
The opening of Parliament sees the Speaker of the House dragged by MPs to the chair.
Manhire: Peek inside PM's Instagram account
Revealed: the private message inbox of the prime minister's Instagram account.
Toby Manhire: When the troll is the President
COMMENT: Trump's tweets stir up hatred against Muslims - and we should not ignore them.
Manhire: What the world is really saying about us
Comment: It's all tied up with our old friend cultural cringe.
The minister whose homework was eaten by a dog
Who's responsible for what in the new Government? Toby Manhire reveals all.
Hasn't the Deputy PM got better things to do?
COMMENT: National MPs are fair game for Peters, but targeting journalists is problematic.
Toby Manhire: Hey mate, this Manus thing's got to stop
This is what Jacinda Ardern should say to the Aussie PM, writes Toby Manhire.
Toby Manhire: Foreign relations loom large for coalition
Comment: NZ's international role as a source of trivia could change.
A journey through bad Australian takes on our election
COMMENT: Toby Manhire reads them so you don't have to.
Manhire: Euphoric Ardern deserves to bask in the moment
With a slim majority, the new government can expect to face one hell of a opposition.
Manhire: 11 insights from Winston's inbox
Comment: Demon hacktivist lays bare the secrets of the kingmaker's inbox.
Will Winston reel in blue cod or a red snapper?
How long to go? You may as well ask how long is a NZ First fishing line.
Critical moments: How small parties made big mistakes
Smaller parties squeezed out, but they did produce their own dramas.
Toby Manhire: The election alphabet
COMMENT: Toby Manhire spells out the trends, twists and turns of the campaign.
Toby Manhire: What the parties are really saying
Toby Manhire presents a summary of the parties last, desperate election messages.
Toby Manhire: Who wants to buy a hole?
Steven Joyce can see a giant hole in Labour's sums - but no one else can.
Who's next in the resignation election?
The party leaders are now a bunch of novices - with the exception of Winston Peters.
Pollwatch: Labour surges, Greens slump
Toby Manhire weighs up the results from Newshub's political polls.
Toby Manhire: Arden up! Strategies for Jacinda effect
COMMENT: Parties reach for their panic buttons as the election campaign bursts into life.
Toby Manhire: Our child abuse shame
It's well past time for the Government to investigate historic child abuse in state care.
Toby Manhire: Party ads: No danger of going viral
Risk-averse efforts online are early guide to the messages we'll get leading to election
Toby Manhire: Our politicians on children
School holidays present an ideal chance to see what our leaders think about future voters.
Toby Manhire: time for Greens to get a bit crazy
It is altogether less easy, however, being Green. They need to get a bit crazy.
Toby Manhire: I dreamed of ...
COMMENT: Todd Barclay dreams of Thiel, or is it Cruise, and Joyce dreams of victory.
Toby Manhire: Rumble from the Gore jungle
COMMENT: Youth-quake rocking New Zealand politics comes from the unlikeliest of places.
Toby Manhire: Feels like teen spirit
What will the political parties here do in an attempt to joy-ride the youthquake?
Manhire: Lessons from UK election for our politicians
Labour leader Corbyn's dramatic rise thanks to simple message - and robotic rival.
A Lions' guide to New Zealand
Toby Manhire gives the visiting Lions rugby team a quick guide to New Zealand.
Manhire: It's a middling Budget
COMMENT: The biggest risk of this Budget is that it lacks any big ambition.
Dangerous tripe of the anti-vaxxers
COMMENT: Science isn't controversial: refusing to vaccinate your child could harm others.
Meaty cyber leaks from English's inbox
COMMENT: The latest on the Prime Minister's correspondence - via alternative fax.
Toby Manhire: English's cunning plan
Toby Manhire says Bill English's social investment strategy raises a lot of questions.
A few tips for your visit, Mr Obama
COMMENT: It's not often we get a VVIP of your standing sir, says Toby Manhire.
Toby Manhire: Time to get on the buses
Forget volcanoes. All it takes to cripple Auckland's transport network is a bit of rain.
When politicians use social media
COMMENT: The hazards for social-media-using politicians are plentiful, writes Manhire.
Manhire: Hacker finds juice in PM emails
COMMENT: Notorious internet ninja hacking the PM's emails again, Toby Manhire writes.
Books damning claims demand inquiry
COMMENT: Truth about failed raid must come out, says Toby Manhire.
Buckle in for Winston's last hurrah
COMMENT: Will Peters be another Trump or Brexit? writes Toby Manhire.
Toby Manhire: Gen X, to the barricades!
OPINION: PM's Super proposal has swept lethargic lot into generational battles of our time, says Toby Manhire.
Toby Manhire: Bad advice for NZ's top politicians
Our three-yearly ritual is more fun with a bit of spark so here's some choice advice for our top politicians, says Toby Manhire.
Toby Manhire: Media shivering in Facebook's shadow
COMMENT: Common driver in sector's gloomy headlines is growing dominance of internet and those who stand astride it, writes Toby Manhire.
Ironing out the creases in coat-tail rule
COMMENT: It is a curious fact that neither of the two parties that dominated the first byelection of this term of government are taking part at all in the last., writes Toby Manhire.
Toby Manhire: Trump's reign going admirably, full stop
COMMENT: Ignoring hiccups which fit easily into one sentence the President's first 20 days haven't been too bad really, writes Toby Manhire.
Toby Manhire: State of the Nation
With September 23 inked into the calendar, Bill English unleashed yesterday his first big State of the Nation address as prime minister, writes Toby Manhire.
Laila Harré reveals all on Internet-Mana debacle
In a revealing interview, Laila Harré tells The Spinoff's Toby Manhire what went down in 2014, and why she's decided to throw her lot back in with the party.
Toby Manhire: Trumpugees
You might at first be alarmed by this exhibition of intolerance, fearing that a Trumpesque streak is alive and well even in this distant paradise, writes Toby Manhire.
Farewell 2017, it's been a blast
COMMENT: Truly it has been a momentous year, more so even, some say, than the tumultuous 2016.
Something for everyone this Christmas
Top of everyone's mind, needless to say, is the wish to pop something under the trees of New Zealand's public figures. But what?
Leader speeches - the lost scrolls?
My hackster informant Lambshank has wetsuited up and plunged into the hard drives of the pretenders, thieving digital files containing draft speeches.
Toby Manhire: John Key did it his way
COMMENT: If there were family reasons for John Key's decision to stand down, they were surely the demands of his art-school daughter or YouTube son.
We need state child abuse inquiry now
COMMENT: The appalling treatment of hundreds under govt care demands answers - but Anne Tolley says no.
That ol' tax cut story keeps on coming
TOBY MANHIRE COMMENT: John Key squeezed a lot into a few short days in Lima over the weekend.
Wave goodbye to your tsunami alert
COMMENT: On the morning of Monday November 14, 2016, the best little city in the world got ripped apart.
The Fun-Times Bumper Trumper Joke Book
More than 24 hours have now passed since Donald Trump delivered his first triumphant speech as President-elect, and, hey, the sky
Toby Manhire: Forget Trump, meet man of 2016
COMMENT: Rhe person that best captures the mind-boggle of it all is neither Trump, nor Ms Bono, nor novelty shrimps, but Peter Thiel.
Manhire: Keyleaks show Bennett at play
COMMENT: The latest cache of Clinton emails inadvertently reveals goings on here in NZ.
Trump team still has vitriol in the tank
COMMENT: The campaign that has plumbed some unimaginable depths could yet get altogether nastier.
Manhire: Welcome to the crazyocene
COMMENT: A spate of clowns terror confirms we're in a bonkers parallel reality.
Manhire: Is poverty that hard to measure?
Prime Minister John Key finds it remarkably hard to measure child poverty when so many other challenges are possible, says Toby Manhire.
Toby Manhire: See you on Mars, Dr Brash
COMMENT: You could carry on saving for the deposit on an average Auckland house, or you could go to Mars.
Why Trump will be ok, in one sentence
...he's neck and neck in polling with Hillary Clinton, so it's about time to ask whether he would really be so face-meltingly terrible...
Revealed: Andrew Little's secret emails
An overzealous firewall created a wormhole within the buffer-overflow. The results: a trove of emails from Labour leader Andrew Little's inbox, writes Toby Manhire.
Manhire: Sagas keep us anchored to past
COMMENT: As acclaimed thought leader Ecclesiastes once put it - it was a Ted Talk, I think - there is nothing new under the sun.