#BHN Big Hairy News

Some of the loudest "free speech" advocates are doing what they can to censor a Pacifica poet and her message from being turned into a show for the Auckland Art's Festival. Funny how they want their speech protected, and often pakeha speech protected, but when a female, or a non-white person or a minority puts their head above the parapet how quickly they begin to clutch their pearls   &...

Karen Plunket goes full on 'Culture War Queen' when it comes to the census. The fear he is trying to stoke isn't valid but unfortunately, like a broken clock, he is right on some things which we will look at tonight.                               &nb...

The National Party have outlined their proposal for what they would do with the '3 waters' legislation. Simon Watts was on Q&A in the weekend and used lots of words but didn't really say anything...other than "let's get rid of co-governance". There was also a lot of new ideas that seem to be quite controlling of local councils telling them what they can, and cannot, do which is weird as they h...

Stephen Lewandowsky is a cognitive scientist with an interest in computational modeling. That is, he tries to understand how the mind works by writing computer simulations of our memory and decision-making processes. Recently, Lewandowsky has become interested in how people update their memories if things they believe turn out to be false. This has led him to examine the persistence of misinformat...

Christopher Luxon said today very clearly, almost too clearly, that he thinks anyone who is not on board with man-made climate change is not living in the 21st century. We acknowledge that we were asking this question yesterday and he has responded but still have nagging thoughts about what appears to be a very prepared answer hit several times to ensure the public is clear on his thoughts...so yo...

Roald Dahl books are being rewritten to take out some of what people describe as offensive descriptors like 'fat' and 'ugly'. Is this the correct move to make or is this a case of the "PC world going mad!!!!!!"                  The disinformation project are speaking out about many conspiracy theorists pivoting from CO...

Newstalk ZB goes balls deep in Gabrielle misinformation making claim after claim that there was nothing to see here, then after seeing the generational devastation made noises about school closes and finally never seemed to back away from their original wrong commentary. It appears to us what has happened at Newstalk ZB is that their hatred for a Labour Government has surpassed their need and desi...

Join us live at 9pm as we chat with Byron C Clark, an activist from Christchurch who for the past two years his work has focused on the reemergence of the far-right and the spread of misinformation online.                    Much of Byron's activism has taken the form of video essays on YouTube mixing humour...

David Seymour kind of began to walk back his comments today after maybe watching #BHN where we explained to him that he has misread the room in a massive way the likes of which we haven't seen since Simon Bridges criticized the Labour Government with their initial response to the COVID outbreak           We'll have a look at Gabrielle and a couple of st...

Bryce Edwards writes suggesting that Christopher Luxon's leadership might be in trouble. Is it?             David Seymour is doing everything he can to alienate as many people as he possibly can at the moment. Is he now actively working for the left helping their chances for the 2023 election...we certainly hope so     &nbs...

We'll check out where we are at with Cyclone Gabrielle and if there is anything more you need to know for the next 24 hours                             We'll take a look at the greatest ever Superbowl advert which doesn't make the celebrity stars of it look like wa...

Kerre Woodham pontificates on why Christopher Luxon's poor performance and wonders why he isn't getting more cut through and isn't more trusted. The poor wee conservative boomer radio hosts can't quite see yet that NZers don't live in her ivory tower and those outside the tower have been crapped on too many times by National to make the transition away from Labour as such an easy journey as she th...

Chris Hipkins announcement that the minimum wage will increase significantly is a continuation of recent Labour governments looking after the low wage better than National ever has. We'll look at the numbers tonight and show you how little National cares about the working class and why Labour should use this moment to become a part of the factory floor again.       &n...

Labour "reprioritises" a bunch of policies. National will take this as a win. Is it? Or is it the right thing to do based on bad policy?         CNN ratings are dismal, they are small per capita than a small NZ radio station, but smaller view for viewer than TVNZ's 1News. So how the hell do they afford to run a network like that. Tonight we'll look at some possib...

Mr Beast is pretty much always trending somewhere with his 133 million YouTube subscribers, but his latest video where he paid for 1,000 people to have a simple operation to get their sight back is under some criticism as he is being accused of monetising people's pain and only doing it for the clicks.             We spoke last night about why...

Efeso Collins joins us live to talk about what is happening in Auckland at the moment with the flood and the response from the Council               James Renwick is a Professor of Physical Geography at Victoria University explains how the general circulation of the atmosphere transports energy and momentum in relation to the Aucklan...

Either Wayne Brown is a moron, or he is in over his head...or both...but we have a look at what he has said about his responsibility with the Auckland City Council reaction to the flooding and an interesting position change where he used to think offering opinions was just fine, but when his councillors do he's now pretty clear we must only share the facts.   Both Newshub and TVNZ released po...

Happy Invasion Day Australia. Thousands of Australians attended 'Invasion Day' protests today to support Indigenous Australians during the controversial public holiday.           Tova says 'Fuck the trolls' because they don’t count. They scream into a vacuum and people far better than them don’t hear their shrill cries.      &nb...

Inflation is steady at 7.2%, avoiding the projected raise to 7.5% yet not dropping like we all would have liked. Maybe the economy gets a C+ for this result.    Christopher Luxon wants to allocate funding for Māori, to be delivered by Māori and is amped to see more Iwi providing their own health services...but also wants to cancel the Māori Health Authority in a strange juxtaposition of...

Last day as Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern makes her last official speech at Ratana. We check out what was said and what advice she gives to incoming Prime Minister Chris Hipkins   Christopher Luxon thinks the conversation around co-governance has been handled in an 'divisive and immature" yet takes no responsibility for his party contributing to that conversation.   We'll also have a loo...

Chris Hipkins was on the AM show this morning facing the usual 'Labour is terrible' series of questions from host Ryan Bridge, but he showed strength when being asked about the tax system and gave an answer that should be Labour's talking points for the next several weeks.   The NZ Herald reports that "Jacinda Ardern will need special police bodyguard protection well beyond the end of her tim...

One story tonight as we look at the announcement that has rocked the political world that Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has resigned.   Joining us to talk about the news is former speechwriter for Prime Ministers Geoffrey Palmer and Jim Bolger David Slack about what this means for New Zealand and Prof Robert Patman on if this has any repercussions internationally for NZ

The National party has been inundated like no party ever has before in NZ with a huge war chest to attempt to unseat Labour as the Government. National raised more in one year from large donors than Labour raised in nearly a decade. What does this mean for #Election2023 ?   The NZ Herald gave space to a radio lobby to share column inches as to why the RNZ/TVNZ merger is a bad idea and how her...

NZ Herald Senior Writer Simon Wilson says "the 2023 election is a choice between the best Government yet, and the worst." He joins us tonight at 9pm to talk about that   Long Covid could become NZ's leading cause of disability with potentially 200,000 NZers already having it and the number will only grow with reinfections   Jeremy Clarkson apologies to Harry and Meghan for saying that he...

Scammed for $40k. From RNZ "Bank customers beware is a frequent message this summer as a number of organisations urge New Zealanders to watch out for financial scams"   Can Luxon Lose. Duncan Garner says "It's a massive test for Luxon, never before has a first-term MP become National's leader and, in that term, take National into an election. No matter what corporate life threw at him, I can...