Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Number 1: Oliver Hartwich: NZ Initiative Executive Director on business leaders signing an open letter urging political parties to drop interventionist policies
Fifty-one business leaders have signed an open letter from business think tank the New Zealand Initiative urging political parties to drop interventionist policies. It responds to campaign proposals to structurally reform the grocery sector. National and New Zealand First propose splitting Foodstuffs. Labour wants grocery brands split into separate retail and wholesale arms, and the Greens want to establish a government owned grocery store. Initiative Executive Director Oliver Hartwich told Ryan Bridge parties shouldn't entertain policies that completely go against the economic constitution of the country. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
September 22, 20264min
Number 2: Ryan Bridge: Don't believe everything you read
The problem with writing books and not fact-checking them properly is that you get yourself tangled in knots. At best, forced to apologise. At worst, sued. I haven't read the one launched in Wellington yesterday. I watched the press conference and the stand-up afterwards. There was one allegation made of note that has been denied by the current and past board chairs of the Taxpayer's Union. But writing a book based on interviews with people, without proper factchecking or documentation, is fraught business. Due diligence goes a long way. Look no further than Earl Spencer – Princess Diana's brother who wrote a book writing off Charles as some sort of giddy widow. Well, also in his book he claimed Piers Morgan was in-part behind the taking of photographs of Diana attending gym in a leotard with a secret camera. The only problem for Spencer, had he bother to check, was that Piers was not in fact the editor of the Mirror newspaper the book assumed him to be until two years rafter the photos were taken. Piers was ropeable. Spencer has been forced to apologise. It should serve as fair warning that, whether it's penned in London or Wellington, you can't believe everything that's written down. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
September 22, 20262min
Number 3: Ryan Bridge: It's obvious National and Labour are fighting for centre votes
Labour has finally seen the light on interest deductibility. That's where a landlord, like any other legitimate business in New Zealand, is able to deduct the expense of its capital borrowing, i.e. a mortgage, against taxable income. After expenses, what's left over is taxed. This is a genuine surprise to me. The word I'd been getting from some Labour MPs, and the industry, was that they would allow a 50% deduction rather than the current 100%. Of course, the deduction has always made sense and arguments against made little. "Housing shouldn't be a business because it's essential" has always been a bogus line. Food, electricity, and water are also essential. They're all free and able to deduct interest on their borrowing to own and build supermarkets, wind turbines, and treatment plants – whether publicly or privately owned. There are two reasons for this: Labour's capital gains tax revenue would have been hit by landlords claiming the deductions at point of sale, leaving a hole in their free GP budget. It's also a play for the centre. They're dropping in the polls – the nine new taxes adverts are, I think, largely to blame. Continuing landlord tax cuts (as they like to call them) is a play from the same political handbag as National's supermarket break-up. Neither party's MPs like the move. They're Captain's calls. They're centre plays. But they don't, in their hearts, these MPs, like backing them. On latest polling the legacy parties are scrapping for less than 60% of the vote, their lowest collective share on record. National's trying to out-Labour Labour, and Labour's trying to out-National National. The risk for both is that it only angers their base, who run screaming into the arms of Chlöe or David. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
September 21, 20263min
Number 4: Ryan Bridge: Why is the state parenting our kids?
There's thing happening with parents, responsibility and the state. Kids are wither misbehaving or not learning, parents are putting their hands up, and the state is having to regulate, what kids can and can't do. I was watching the news last night and a researcher was telling the story of an early childhood teacher. Teacher said parents had turned up with their toddler to class, handed over an Ipad with the kid, and said that the child would not eat any meals without being plugged into an Ipad. You can't tell me parents haven't heard screen time is bad news. Remember ECE is for kids who are three months to 5 years old. So, perhaps to offset what the kid is being allowed to do at home, National wants to ban screens in class for toddlers. In the UK, the state is now going after parents whose kids are behaving badly and turning into crooks. If your kid commits crimes, you could lose your benefit or be sent to prison or fined. So, we have the state basically saying that parents are not controlling their kids - either on screens or on the streets - and so steps in to parent for them. Or use doll out punishment to force them to parent properly. Which begs the question, what's happened to parenting? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
September 20, 20262min
Number 5: Andy England: Darfield High School Principal on Labour's plan to pause educational reforms, set up independent council
A Canterbury principal likes the idea of taking politics out of curriculum decisions, but says it’ll be interesting to see whether that happens in practice. If elected, Labour's promising a pause the Government's school curriculum overhaul, including delaying the replacement of NCEA by a year. It also wants to establish an Independent Council for Curriculum and Assessment. Darfield High School Principal Andy England told Ryan Bridge the proof will be in the pudding. He says Labour is promising to make decisions guided by evidence rather than playing politics, but whether that does happen is up in the air. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
September 17, 20264min