Articles by Ryan Bridge
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Opinion
Ryan Bridge: Nobody wants to give more money to councils who waste it
Wednesday, 11 June 2025, 7:42amIf you're in Auckland and waking up this morning feeling poorer, it's because you are. It's because we all are. CVs down...
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Ryan Bridge: Online trends are taking lives
Wednesday, 28 May 2025, 6:07amWhat happened in Palmerston North with the death of this young man was an absolute tragedy. We don't know exactly what happened...
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Ryan Bridge: The growth forecast in Budget 2025 at least gives us hope
Friday, 23 May 2025, 7:58amGood morning and guess what? Things are looking up. The future's looking pretty good. Not from budget announcements themselves,...
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Ryan Bridge: The Green's budget is in la-la land
Thursday, 15 May 2025, 6:25amHere’s a few c-words for your Thursday morning: communist, coalition, and crash. Crash, because that’s what’d happen to the...
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Ryan Bridge: The ultimate scandal
Tuesday, 6 May 2025, 6:19amDisclaimer: Satire On the news last night, it was nothing but scandal. Scandal. Scandal. I don’t think I’ve seen political...
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Ryan Bridge: Budget 2025 will be frugal, but will Budget 2026?
Wednesday, 30 April 2025, 6:16amYou can’t say we weren’t warned Nicola Willis would be taking to government spending like a butcher to a fresh carcass. She’s...
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Ryan Bridge: Flying will always be expensive in regional NZ
Tuesday, 29 April 2025, 6:22amHere we go again with the whinge fest about Air New Zealand's prices. I get it. I try book the same flights as everybody...
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Ryan Bridge: Churches risk coming across hypocritical
Monday, 28 April 2025, 6:21amThere was a priest on the news last night talking about homeless people the cost of buying a house in New Zealand. This...
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Perspective with Ryan Bridge: Barbara Edmonds and Labour were wrong about the tariffs
Thursday, 10 April 2025, 5:10pmTrump's tariff backdown proves that Nicola was right and Barbara was wrong. Willis took the cool, calm, collected approach....
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Ryan Bridge: Trump's peace deal has hit the Kremlin wall
Thursday, 20 March 2025, 9:39amThere's no such thing as a ceasefire this morning. It's all breaking down in the Middle East. Netanyahu's come out with...
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Perspective with Ryan Bridge: Is violent crime really dropping?
Tuesday, 25 February 2025, 4:47pmSo it looks like, on paper at least, that this is a big win for the Government's crackdown on crime. Violent crime is down...
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Ryan Bridge: Make movies short again
Friday, 24 January 2025, 9:51amThe Oscars nominations have come out and guess what? Wicked the Musical with Ariana Grande is on the list for Best Picture....
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Ryan Bridge: Our economy is still in the wilderness
Thursday, 23 January 2025, 8:53pmSo we have an inflation number, which is better than not knowing, but it doesn’t tell us much. 2.2 percent for the year to...
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Opinion
Best of 2024: Ryan Bridge - Why are we paying $80 a year for a bin no one uses?
Friday, 20 December 2024, 11:30amAccording to the group who are upset about the monopoly-duopoly that's happening in our grocery sector, you could save, at...
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Best of 2024: Ryan Bridge - Thank you to David Seymour and Big Pharma
Friday, 20 December 2024, 11:27amI've got an amazing wonder drug to tell you about New Zealand, and it saved me in the last couple of weeks. People are talking...
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Ryan Bridge: Build the roads, we'll pay for them
Friday, 13 December 2024, 7:35pmIt should come as no surprise to anyone, driving on our roads is about to get more expensive. Simeon Brown's come out this...
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Ryan Bridge: We need 500 excellent cops, not average ones
Friday, 6 December 2024, 5:56amSo it looks like looks like police will miss the deadline of adding 500 extra sworn officers by 2026. What we were promised...
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Ryan Bridge: Should the government buy NZ made, even if it costs us more?
Thursday, 5 December 2024, 4:36amThat's basically the question you've got to ask yourself after the latest wool snub. This time it was Kāinga Ora saying no...
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Ryan Bridge: Will we ever have enough money to spend on health?
Wednesday, 4 December 2024, 4:49amHere's a question for you this morning - How much will ever be enough to spend on health? The answer is there will never...
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Ryan Bridge: Nobody is above the law, until they are
Tuesday, 3 December 2024, 4:42amWhy do Americans keep saying nobody is above the law and then repeatedly showing us some blatantly are. Biden tweeted during...
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Ryan Bridge: Labour lost the country's trust, can they get it back?
Monday, 2 December 2024, 4:48amPolitics is largely about trust. When you break it down to its most simple terms, it's about trust. If you see a bloke...
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Ryan Bridge: The Covid-19 inquiry - the verdict is in
Friday, 29 November 2024, 8:14amThis Covid phase one report – the verdict is in, and it's pretty much ‘guilty your honour’. Fine to begin with, and then...
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Ryan Bridge: When will our economy come out of its hangover?
Thursday, 28 November 2024, 6:23amThe US economy is just humming along at the moment, isn't it? 2.8% is their lucky number this morning. 2.8% annualised GDP...
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Ryan Bridge: The issue with paper bags
Wednesday, 27 November 2024, 8:36amI paid 40 cents for a paper bag while shopping at my local supermarket the other week. 40 cents. Remember when they used...
