"We don't need a 'new' society, that's what the Labour Party is trying to bring us, that's their slogan - 'A New Society'. What's wrong with the one we've got? What's wrong with the one we've built up here over 150 years? [...] We want the society that's been built up in the hearts of the New Zealand people over 150 years."

- Robert D. Muldoon, 31st Prime Minister of New Zealand, 1975.

Attached: 'Sunday in Dunedin', oil on canvas. Peter McIntyre, 1959.

This blows my mind. Indians, Asians, Black [sic] and Pakeha [sic] campaigning to take a Maori [sic] seat from Maori. 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯 - Instagram post by Te Pāti Māori MP Tākuta Ferris

"He's put his finger on a real issue…the great replacement, mass immigration, multiculturalism. It's not just a threat to white New Zealanders. It is also a threat to Māori, and Māori political aspirations." - William McGimpsey

Did the Māori Party just accidentally admit that multiculturalism threatens Māori seats?

🎥 Watch here: https://rcr.media/episodes/weekly-roundup-free-speech-borders-energy-debates

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Charlie Kirk, the Last Voice of the Moderate Right silenced by an assassin's bullet. He shaped a generation and truly changed the world by going to universities and debating politics in a way that will probably never happen again, not in a long time, not after this.

"I don't care if I sound xenophobic. I’m a politician and I’m a nationalist politician”.

RCR’s Tane Webster spoke with NZ First Minister Shane Jones at the NZ First Convention in Palmerston North.

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New episode of The Dispatches out today, mostly about a number of issues related to Gaza, from the leaked Charlie Kirk texts on Jewish lobbying to the protests and vandalism of Winston Peter's home.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcD3VTLr5Nc

There's been a bit of a lull in my content production since July, but just a reminder that the Weekly Roundups with William continue every week on RCR: https://rcr.media/episodes/weekly-roundup-politics-power-population-shifts/

Regular interviews and articles/newsletters should resume shortly, I'm just lining up the first few.

My interview with John McLean is now available to watch in the RCR Media app
https://rcr.media/episodes/john-mclean-new-zealand-historian-and-author-grit-graft-and-a-new-nation

"I've always had a great interest in the pioneers 'cause I've been very conscious of the great things that they achieved in building this wonderful country in such a short time." — John McLean, New Zealand Historian and Author

What part of New Zealand’s pioneer story inspires you most?

Dieuwe de Boer is joined by historian and author John McLean, who discusses his new book ‘The Pioneers - Makers of New Zealand’.

🎥 Watch here: https://rcr.media/episodes/john-mclean-new-zealand-historian-and-author-grit-graft-and-a-new-nation

📖 To purchase The Pioneers - Makers of New Zealand 👉 https://trosspublishing.com/product/the-pioneers-makers-of-new-zealand/

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"It was only in the 1980s or '90s that they decided to throw the gates open to anybody." — John McLean, New Zealand Historian and Author

Did New Zealand lose something important when immigration rules changed?

📖 Dieuwe de Boer is joined by historian and author John McLean, who discusses his new book The Pioneers: Makers of New Zealand.

🎥 Watch here: https://rcr.media/episodes/john-mclean-new-zealand-historian-and-author-grit-graft-and-a-new-nation

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Poolside reading for the summer

Haven't done much writing these past six months since content has been almost exclusively podcasts/interviews for RCR, but I do have a few things planned in Right Minds the pipeline (mostly involving reading a lot of books first). To round out the year, I do have two war stories from each side of my family that I had a chance to collect back in May. The first one here is about the occupation and liberation of Friesland in WW2: https://www.rightminds.nz/2025/12/war-stories-liberation-of-frisia-in-1945

If you aren't already subscribed to William's weekly summary newsletters on Substack, I would highly recommend them as a good way to keep in touch with "the zeitgeist" in 2026
https://thezeitgeistnz.substack.com/p/the-zeitgeist-19-january-2026

I made a vote splitting guide for the 2026 general election: https://vote.coalitiontracker.nz/