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The Spinoff

A New Zealand politics podcast hosted by The Spinoff's Toby Manhire with Annabelle Lee-Mather and Ben Thomas.

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320 episodes

  1. Making sense of the 2026 election 1:05:29
  2. Final polls, pervy trolls, and our predictions 1:04:33
  3. Panic stations with a week to go? 39:55
  4. The campaign has entered its ouroboros phase 41:30
  5. We are all covered in ash and yearning for the ocean 44:36
  6. Were we watching the same debate? 38:05
  7. The debate explosion 41:02
  8. Why won’t Christopher Luxon go on Q+A? We asked Jack Tame 8:50
  9. What is this election really about? 51:11
  10. Fifty days out, the campaign ignites 36:43
  11. Only 64 more days of tax, tax, tax, tax, tax, tax, tax, tax, tax 39:12
  12. Luxon vs Brown, and how the govt fell so violently out of love with localism 7:22
  13. Post-coup chat, with guest star Chris Penk 40:14
  14. Emergency pod: Do you get déjà coup? 31:30
  15. What is Mr Luxon doing? 43:20
  16. Someone take away Stuart Nash's phone, please 54:46
  17. Are the Oppies unstoppable? 52:53
  18. Jamboree season in an election year 3:54
  19. Unhappy families 53:16
  20. At Large with Toby Manhire: Britain’s great big prime minister problem, continued 29:06
  21. Hardcore lobbying and the emotional senior staffer 48:41
  22. Budget special with Bernard Hickey 34:31
  23. Live at Auckland Writers Festival with Tova O'Brien guest star 1:05:45
  24. Jane Wrightson on Super squabbles, Seymour and the state of the media 43:04
  25. Asher Emanuel on The Valley: the book everyone, politicians especially, should read in 2026 39:16
  26. The deepest breach in the Luxon coalition, and a National reboot 56:15
  27. Luxon stares down rebel moan squad across 100 white-knuckle hours 47:48
  28. The force majeure election 40:32
  29. Special ep with Anna Fifield on the US, Iran, and Winston in Washington 29:26
  30. Is NZ getting the fuel crisis right? Here's your timely, targeted and temporary analysis 1:09:00
  31. We don't know how to be any clearer, guys 59:08
  32. 10th birthday special: Live with Wayne Brown and Andrew Little 55:03
  33. Ben Thomas reports from the shitstorm 58:38
  34. Are Peters and Luxon on a collision course? 47:57
  35. Summer Reissue: Bonus ep - Thoughts on the Jacinda Ardern film and book 45:40
  36. Summer Reissue: Juggernaut 2 51:02
  37. New Year special: 2026 in NZ politics 22:50
  38. Summer Reissue: Emergency politics Toddcast - The National Party after Muller 39:22
  39. Breaking: everything is good now 52:26
  40. The Luxon conundrum 1:04:26
  41. The Police and the bad apple thesis 52:22
  42. Good news: NZ is back on track 51:26
  43. Meltdown in Te Pāti Māori 53:01
  44. Peters delivers Palestine decision in New York 41:54
  45. Te Pāti Māori wrenches defeat from the jaws of victory 54:04
  46. Pulse check, pub quiz & predictions: live from WORD Christchurch 1:03:24
  47. Bonus ep: Thoughts on the Jacinda Ardern film and book 44:46
  48. It’s all fine apart from butter, Trump, netball, etc 43:31
  49. ‘The one thing they could blow up the government over’ 44:41
  50. We have issues, many issues 44:14