The "Paul... The Other One" Podcasts.
Independent Political & Media Commentary from Aotearoa New Zealand. Hosted by Paul Barlow—former political commentator with a background in media studies and pop culture—Paul... The Other One cuts through news bias, media framing, and political spin. Catch sharp daily breakdowns, deep-dive political analysis, and unfiltered takes on current affairs shaping NZ. 📩 Weekly Newsletter & Links: linktr.ee/paul_barlownz 🗳️ Election Tools: election2026.co.nz ☕ Support the Show: buymeacoffee.com/paul.theotherone
Episodes
One MP oversaw the largest ever rise in homelessness numbers and claimed success while forcing schools to fundraise for extra help and the local NZ First candidate is worried primary children are being indoctrinated in schools in the creepiest way possible and that migrants are to blame for everything. Hamilton West has some strong reasons to vet your candidates carefully before voting this year.
I was asked for a couple of reasons why I would never vote for the Coalition - I may have overshot the brief a little but they are so awful that was always going to happen.
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The sitting MPwho spouts the company lines no matter how wrong they are, the Act Candidate who psuhed for the dangerous citizens arrest laws and an NZ First candidate who reckons you should just bin the Treaty so he can pollute the river more. Three good reasons to vet your Waikato Candidates
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An MP who abused her position to send personal attacks on MPI staff to try and get her family off horrific animal abuse charges, a conspiracy theory pusher angry Jacinda took her guns after people were murdered by an extremist who fell down rabbit holes with the same noise she makes online and an Act candidate who thinks fake unions are more valid for information paid by tobacco companies than actual news sources.
Early voting is open and yeah, it’s easy to feel like everything is negative and shitty, but let me show you what happened behind the scenes when Green MPs celebrated Pop Culture… It shows there are people who want to vote for positive change. We can do it from today!
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As a Nation, we have seen first hand the impacts of extremist radicalisation in the most tragic way possible
And our media had a role to play in that - so have we taken the lessons of march 15 and improved things? Sadly, it looks like the opposite is true.
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It's a mess, it's voter suppression, it's a deliberate ploy to stop people voting - and it sucks but you won't fix the system if you're not enrolled by the end of today.
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Sentiment tracking helps us see what messages are landing, or in the case of National, tanking with audiences - and there's a really clear reason why - voters are sick of being lied to.
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The third and final Chrises debate followed a common theme - Christopher Luxon spoke and incorrect things fell out of his mouth.
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The latest updates from around the campaign as cut off for enrolment looms, and I catch up with Arena Williams to learn more about Labours Right to Repair for cars policy she recently announced.
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It's been a busy weekend - I've been visiting locations as diverse as Lancre in the Ramptops to learn the magic of words, to the local Hospital to hear about the horrors of a health system under the squeeze.
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From scary pictures of brown faces to cherry picking economic data, the post Second Chrises leaders debate Facebook follow up from national was just as full of BS as their debate claims. Often they were the same thing.
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The Second Chris Debate didn’t have as many misleading statements as the first, maybe it was because the host kept interrupting, on at least one occasion helping th PM to think of the right word and trying to talk over Chris Hipkins. Might explain why he has a couple of fact checks on his work as well this time.
So a quick explainer here - a Misleading statement is anything deliberately misleading like I have been lying ...
There’s a myth National has spent longer than Wynston Peters has been alive trying to perpetuate - that they’re good with the economy. But with unvetted financial plans, claims of controlling financial levers they do not have and the increasing cost of luton impacting Kiwis, maybe it’s time to put that myth to rest.
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In this week's Campaign Kōrero I head along to Birkenhead to hear Chippy give his sales pitch, and catch up with Labour candidates running in some of the toughest electorates in the country despite all the failures their current national MPs have on record.
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Most of us see graffiti on election signs as part of the process, but to the trained eye, there’s hidden messaging, subtle gatekeeping and overt harassment if you know what you’re looking for
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On the North Shore this weekend, both Chrises gave us examples of how media is forced to summarise complicated, nuanced moments and details into a few sentences or a quick soundbite package.
00:00 - Introduction
05:46 - Chris Hipkins Q&A & Caucus Support
07:33 - Struggle finding Apprentices
09:21 - Return of Retirement Housing Deposits
10:49 - Supporting young first-home buyers1
2:23 - Decentralising Te Tiriti in Education
14:56 ...
Did Ram raids just vanish? Why don't you hear so much about smash and grabs anymore? Fear Manufacturing is a core element of how news media sells clicks, and here in Aotearoa, it's also a major driver behind narratives the Coalition like to push and is responsible for how a lot of the public perceive Maori, especially Wahine Maori.
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Headline Priming is the term we use for when headlines shape our views of an issue, politician or event before we’ve even read a word of the story - and during the election, our Media goes into over drive using this tool to tell you how to feel about who you’re voting for and downplay things they don’t want you to know.
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How do you distract from the fact you’re tanking an election, people are calling you out for lying and you’re not helping people with the issues they face? By introducing regressive, harmful policies designed to grab headlines at the cost of removing people’s rights.
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