Tom Haig

Nz First's minerals policy announced today is a joke. Note there are no numbers on it- the reason why is cos total minerals royalties last year were $15.05m. And they're in a coalition govt that promised to share GST with councils & how's that gone?

@simontegg @PronouncedHare @secondzeit @grok All that shows is that accounts from the right spread more disinformation, which is entirely consistent with the algorithm promoting harmful lies

@ThomasHaig @PronouncedHare @secondzeit Would it interest you to know that @grok rates posts by Republicans as false more than posts by Democrats. Even though Republicans use Grok more heavily. The X platform wold seem to be making an effort to actively counter conspiracy theories x.com/DG_Rand/status…

Three tweets in a row about this? And nothing about Julian Batchelor? How is this one a free speech issue?

@dissdisinfo @PronouncedHare @secondzeit Hah lol nice try, looks like you're very familiar with them

@ThomasHaig @PronouncedHare @secondzeit What racist conspiracy theories? Please be specific

@Mintando @PronouncedHare @secondzeit Looks like you're *all over* them mate

When you have a moment, could you please direct me to the NZ racist conspiracy theory site(s). I am very curious to know what these are about and how they come to be called racist. This sort of thing is illegal in NZ unless the preference is for all things Maori. Or you could just list the conspiracies.

@PronouncedHare @secondzeit "Free speech oriented platform" = algorithm set to promote racist conspiracy theories, but hey, nice sanitised phrasing

I wonder if you can wrap your head around this. Not overly confident but we can give it a go maybe. A lot of the liberal turning away from X - including by your own employer - occurred in the wake of it becoming a free-speech oriented platform. Those institutions, including Stuff, preferred it as a platform that censored disfavoured views. In that way, deliberate decisions by institutions to cease using X have become seen as an indication of disapproval for free speech and in favour of controlled speech. The free speech union exists to promote free speech. I really wonder if you can surprise me here Phil.

@EricCrampton Yep, bad, boring East Germany with its lack of consumer goods...

Kiwis still underrate the economic reforms of the 80s and 90s. Story placard outside the German Embassy: "East Germany looked much more like New Zealand at the time [late '70s] than West Germany did."

@AotearoaSam @BasicBishopNZ Come to your natural home Sam 🏡 💚

@BasicBishopNZ I have got Greens every single time I've done one of those

Might do one of those normie “who to vote for” quizzes and just commit to da bit

What did y’all think “Year of the Horse” meant? gas? diesel?

@labourcartel Good work Ed!

Nicola Willis said our "worst case scenario" was a 3.7% rise in inflation. I argue it's probably already above 4%, and we're only three weeks into the crisis. Kiwis deserve more information from their leaders. New from me: labourcartel.substack.com/p/as-oil-price…

@NZNationalParty seeing as they collapsed the EV market, dropping sales by 75% , delivering quarter the numbet of chargers they promised makes sense I guess

@NZNationalParty 2022 National Party - 10,000 chargers. 2026 National led govt - 2,500 chargers

National is more than doubling the number of public EV chargers around New Zealand. We’re building the modern infrastructure needed to make it cheaper and easier for EV owners to get around.

Oof. Oil prices to go above 2022's peak tomorrow?

entirely plausible that he's never baked for either the joy or if or the pleasure of feeding people you care for

That this is a key message the Nats are proudly declaring demonstrates their problem

At a first glance this looks to strongly correlate with wealth inequality- US, Turkey and Brazil all have high GINI coefficient, Indonesia, Canada low.

Callous *and* wildly historically illiterate, In fact, completely reversing the facts

@thomas_manch Umm, if we're doing that why not just fund & build it directly - what is the conceivable possible benefit of a ppp!?

👀👀👀 The Govt has committed to a Crown loan to NZT to get the PPP for the Warkworth-Te Hana highway off the ground. NZ's banks couldn't sustain full financing three competing consortium bids for the project. Also: No chosen consortium announced yet ...

Amazing that the RBNZ's dual mandate made inflation spike right around the world

What's the bet guy is the mysterious Peter Basset? Exactly the same spurious and easily debunked type of claim against the Greens, AI profile pic, makes 'authoritative' sounding claims under cover of anonymity

Three hundred million workers staged the largest strike action in human history. They shut down India, a G20 economy. Most of you are hearing about it for the first time now. That’s not poor journalism. That’s deliberate erasure of working-class power in real time. My latest👇🏾