The cheapest route to a big New Zealand-owned bank doesn't involve buying anything. The Crown already owns Kiwibank. Buying the BNZ from National Australia Bank and merging the two would cost a fortune and leave the market with fewer competitors than it has now. Winston Peters has made the buyback a centrepiece of New Zealand First's 2026 campaign, and it's easy to see why it plays well. Four Australian-owned banks...

I've got fuck all in the bank, I live in a state house, and somehow I've spent a ridiculous amount of time worrying about how people with more than $10 million are going to pay their tax. What the fuck am I doing. But that's actually why I kept going with this. When I first looked at the Greens' wealth tax my simple reaction was pretty much, you've got ten fucking...