Kelvin Morgan 🇳🇿
@kelvin_morganNZ
Mostly shining a light on the darker side of NZ’s freedom community & its assorted useful idiots along with a cheeky bit of political coverage here & there.
Absolute scenes from Counterspin Media this evening as Kelvyn Alp calls out a far left X user living #rentfree in his head, co-host Hannah Spierer revealing him to be a paid troll before Alp goes on to call himself quote, “beautiful” to much adulation from Liz Gunn.
📍Dirty Politics 2.0: Brynn Neilson, AI Propaganda and the Erosion of Political Discourse OPINION: The recent posts on the @MatuaKahurangi X and Substack accounts, now widely attributed to @NZ_Media_Watch’s Brynn Neilson, represent a deeply cynical and dangerous escalation of…
📍That’s because you and Luxon gave it back to landlords Nicola. #nzpol
“Go home, Uncle — you’re drunk.” 📍It won’t shock anyone to hear Winston Peters pulled yet another petty stunt in the House during Question Time today. Asked by Green MP Teanau Tuiono what commitments the Government had made to protecting Aotearoa New Zealand’s marine…
📍Christopher Luxon’s unfiltered outburst during today’s media scrum – calling Opposition Leader Chris Hipkins “frickin’ Chris Hipkins” – was the clearest sign yet that the Prime Minister is feeling the heat. Under pressure from the embarrassing failure of his flagship…
📍You may have heard — inflation is on the rise at 2.7%. Finance Minister Nicola Willis fronted media today smugly claiming inflation “remained under control” and within the Reserve Bank’s target range of 1–3%. But for everyday New Zealanders, the reality couldn’t be further…
📍 In his interview with Q+A’s Jack Tame this morning, Associate Housing Minister Tama Potaka repeatedly sidestepped direct accountability for the reported rise in homelessness linked to the government’s emergency housing policy changes. While Potaka was keen to highlight that…
📍Corina Shields, aka Aunty Heihei, exposed herself on Cam Slater’s latest podcast this week — not as a thought leader, but as someone deeply out of her depth. Her appearance — charitably described as a cringe-worthy display of ignorance dressed up as Māori wisdom — showed she…
“Shit.” 📍Watch as Chloe Swarbrick is shut down by Speaker Gerry Brownlee on Wednesday after quoting the lived reality of young New Zealanders during Question Time: “No work, shit pay, why stay?” Brownlee’s justification? Seemingly bruised feelings over that recent incident…
📍 Couldn’t let this little gem escape everyone’s attention — Simeon Brown tries and fails epically to land a clever insult, and ends up having to do the walk of shame after Speaker Gerry Brownlee decides he’s had enough of his shit for one day and unceremoniously kicks him out…
📍 Embattled Wellington mayoral candidate Ray Chung spent the weekend — and all of today — doubling down amid growing calls for him to withdraw from the race, following revelations of a salacious email he sent in 2023 to three colleagues about current Mayor Tory Whanau. His…
📍In this second and final excerpt from Voices for Freedom’s appearance before the Royal Commission of Inquiry into COVID-19, Commissioner Grant Illingworth KC presses the group’s founders—Claire Deeks and Alia Bland, alongside their legal counsel Katie Ashby-Koppens — for clear…
📍 Less than 24 hours after her disastrous appearance at the Royal Commission of Inquiry into COVID-19, Voices for Freedom and RCR co-founder Alia Bland made a surprise appearance on The Platform this morning. While the interview with Sean Plunket began convivially enough, it…
📍 It was clear from the outset that Voices for Freedom founders Claire Deeks and Alia Bland, flanked by their legal counsel Katie Ashby-Koppens, arrived at today’s hearing of the NZ Royal Commission of Inquiry into COVID-19 with a smug, self-assured confidence that their…
📍 Not all heroes wear capes. Meet fifteen year old Jack Karetai‑Barrett, who today completed an epic 11 day, 894km cycling journey from his hometown of Whakatāne to Parliament to deliver a powerful message in support of retaining Māori wards. Jack reportedly requested to meet…
🔍 Context matters. Leader of the Opposition and former COVID-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins fronted up to the tough questions this morning in a live 1ZB interview with Kerre Woodham — addressing claims around his level of engagement with the Royal Commission of Inquiry into…