Emergency podcast: Bill English is gone by morning tea time
🚨🚨🚨 Ben Thomas and Toby Manhire on the English legacy and the contenders to succeed him as National Party leader in this collectible special edition.
View ArticleDawn of the age of Simon Bridges, king of the National Party
The GBLT quartet chew over all the leadership changes. Coruscating analysis of the new leader of New Zealand’s biggest parliamentary party. Hot’n’smoky takes. Terrible but melodic puns. All that and...
View ArticleBreaking Astoria in Curran affairs
Bookended by revelations of sexual assault at a Young Labour summer camp and calls for broadcasting minister Clare Curran’s resignation over a curious meeting with RNZ head of news Carol Hirschfeld,...
View ArticlePolitics podcast: waka jumping, fuel taxing and rumour mongering
Back once again with the renegade bluster, the Gone By Lunchtime team climb many flights of stairs in the cause of NZ political discourse.
View ArticlePolitics podcast: Breaking news, the prime minister had a baby
Gone By Lunchtime is not dead, it’s just been sleeping. Toby Manhire, Annabelle Lee and Ben Thomas reunify in an emotional podcast
View ArticlePolitics podcast: did Bridges’ spadework turn a little leak into a big hole?
Team Gone By Lunchtime gathers to discuss the important political issues of the day, from Clare Curran getting the boot to Party of Five.
View ArticlePolitics podcast: Jacindamania, one year on
Team Gone By Lunchtime gathers to discuss the important political issues of the day.
View ArticleGone By Lunch Time Special: Jacinda in the studio
Kia ora tatou, my name is Toby Manhire and this is Gone By Lunchtime Extra, a special marking the first anniversary of that white smoke moment when Winston Peters appointed Jacinda Ardern the pope of...
View ArticleEmergency podcast: Jami-Lee Ross declares war on Simon Bridges
Ben Thomas and Toby Manhire assess an extraordinary 24 hours in NZ politics, as a relatively unspectacular expenses leak transmogrifies into the biggest Jami-Lee-based farce since A Fish Called Wanda....
View ArticlePolitics podcast: Will the Jami-Lee Ross saga leave lasting damage?
Toby Manhire is joined by iconic duo Annabelle Lee and Ben Thomas to rake the leaves of the JLR saga – and the mini-crises confronting the government, too. The overlord of all successful television in...
View ArticlePolitics pod: Unchained Mallardry, MAGA Barry, ILG damned and the stars of 2018
In the last politics podcast of the year, Annabelle Lee, Ben Thomas and Toby Manhire rub their weary eyes and stick out their stockings. Trevor Mallard has hogged headlines in recent days: first after...
View ArticlePolitics podcast: Ardern promises delivery, Bridges prays for deliverance
The Gone By Lunchtime peloton roars into 2019.Just as you’re wondering whether it’s too late to say Happy new year to people, Annabelle Lee, Toby Manhire and Ben Thomas wish you a happy new year with a...
View ArticlePolitics podcast: Good-time tax chats with your pals
Annabelle Lee, Ben Thomas and Toby Manhire send their lifeboats into the great capital gains tax minestrone ocean.Michael Cullen's Tax Working Group report has been published, sending the nation into...
View ArticlePolitics podcast: the aftermath
In the wake of the appalling act of terror in Christchurch, the Gone by Lunchtime team assemble to asses the event and its political implications. Topics discussed include the impact on an...
View ArticlePolitics podcast: Gone by Slushy Time
Is the bond of trust and confidence between Mihingarangi Forbes and Annabelle Lee-Mather as strong as that between Judith Collins and Simon Bridges? In the latest Gone By Lunchtime, also featuring Toby...
View ArticlePolitics podcast: Reliving the 2017 election with Jacinda Ardern
In this bonus edition of Gone By Lunchtime, the prime minister talks to Toby Manhire at the Auckland Writers FestivalLast weekend at the Auckland Writers Festival, Jacinda Ardern spoke with Spinoff...
View ArticlePolitics Podcast: The Wellbeing Hack
Was the wellbeing budget truly transformational? Toby Manhire, Annabelle Lee and Ben Thomas size it up, along with the high drama prelude of the so-called Treasury hack. Plus: Is the time ripe for a...
View ArticlePolitics podcast: We shall reshuffle you
In this new edition of Gone By Lunchtime, Toby Manhire, Annabelle Lee-Mather and Ben Thomas weigh reshuffles in senior ranks of both the big parties as well as Oranga Tamariki and David Seymour's End...
View ArticlePolitics podcast: Simon Bridges, you, and the Ihumātao groundswell
Annabelle Lee-Mather, Toby Manhire and Ben Thomas feast on the political morsels of the month. including the National Party conference and a challenge to Jacinda Ardern over Ihumātao. Plus: a new...
View ArticlePolitics podcast special: On Sarah, the Labour staffer, and the botched party...
Revelations around alleged sexual assault by a Labour staffer and the party inquiry into his behaviour have dominated the week. Alex Casey and Mihi Forbes join Gone By Lunchtime to survey the...
View ArticlePolitics podcast special: Livin’ la vida local
Area man Hayden Donnell joins Toby Manhire for a bonus edition of Gone By Lunchtime, leading a whistlestop tour of the local elections.Fresh from an assignment in the Far North, the mayor of the...
View ArticlePolitics podcast: Peter Jackson is not the mayor of Wellington
But he did play a crucial role in helping Andy Foster knock over Justin Lester. Team Gone By Lunchtime size up the local elections, gaze plaintively at the dramas in the NZ First Party, and ask how bad...
View ArticlePolitics podcast: live from the Gone by Lunchtime Christmas party
This month on the politics podcast it's the Gone by Lunchtime Christmas Party and Toby's brought a baggie of oregano. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
View ArticleThe Spinoff presents SUPERPOD 2019
Join various hosts of The Spinoff podcasts Gone by Lunchtime, On The Rag, The Real Pod, Paper Cuts, The Offspin, and Dietary Requirements as we look back at the car crash that was 2019.In this special...
View ArticleGone By Lunchtime: positive, factual, robust, stable, genius
Toby Manhire, Annabelle Lee and Ben Thomas are back to kick off the election year with Winston, roads, and serious fraud charges. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
View ArticlePolitics podcast: The many circles of donation hell
Annabelle Lee-Mather, Ben Thomas and Toby Manhire inhale the unsweet aromas of donation scandal enveloping NZ First, National, and by association the prime minister herself. For information regarding...
View ArticlePolitics podcast: Covid-19 and its political dimension
Ben Thomas, Annabelle Lee-Mather and Toby Manhire are not medical doctors, or in fact doctors of any kind, but here they overcome this minor impediment and solve coronavirus.The Gone By Lunchtime trio...
View ArticlePolitics podcast: Gone by lockdowntime
In the world's first ever podcast undertaken by people in remote locations, it's New Zealand's leading epidemiologists and economists, Toby Manhire, Annabelle Lee-Mather and Ben Thomas. An exclusive...
View ArticlePolitics in pubs podcast: Danyl Mclauchlan, Andrea Vance and Neale Jones
In the first of a series of now-virtual events, Danyl is joined by a journalist and a former political staffer to discuss politics and the media.Two months ago today, Spinoff Members and Verb...
View ArticlePolitics podcast: The bloody battle for the National Party leadership
Ben Thomas, Annabelle Lee-Mather and Toby Manhire on Simon Bridges' fight to hang on to the top job in National. On Friday National MPs gather in Wellington to vote on the future of Simon Bridges and...
View ArticlePolitics podcast: The week the Covid-19 response went downhill
Ben Thomas, Annabelle Lee-Mather and Toby Manhire on efforts to resolve the failures exposed in the self-isolation system. As the saying goes, a week is a long time in the response to an unprecedented...
View ArticlePolitics in pubs podcast: Chlöe Swarbrick and Danyl Mclauchlan
In the second of our pre-election events, a collaboration between Spinoff Members and Verb Wellington, Danyl Mclauchlan talks to Chlöe Swarbrick, the MP seeking to tip the table of politics from inside...
View ArticlePolitics podcast: The slogans have landed. Plus: a formal apology
Toby Manhire, Annabelle Lee-Mather and Ben Thomas on ministerial resignations in the recent and middle-distant past, a new book from Judith Collins, and the reinvention of Simon BridgesThe Gone By...
View ArticleEmergency politics Toddcast: The National Party after Muller
Toby Manhire, Annabelle Lee-Mather and Ben Thomas reel at the announcement that Todd Muller has resigned as leader of the opposition. At 7.30am, just 53 days after he replaced Simon Bridges as leader...
View ArticlePolitics podcast: Judith Collins and the hot air Falloon
Toby Manhire, Annabelle Lee-Mather and Ben Thomas on the Andrew Falloon scandal and its implications for a beleaguered National Party, a big weekend for Winston Peters and NZ First, and the chorus...
View ArticlePolitics roguecast: A bombshell poll for Judith Collins and National
Toby Manhire, Annabelle Lee-Mather and Ben Thomas dust off the bazookas scattered around New Zealand politics in this week's Gone By Lunchtime. A new Newshub poll has put Judith Collins' National Party...
View ArticlePolitics in Pubs 3: Simon Bridges on National Party upheavals, politics, and...
For the third Politics in Pubs event, recorded live at Meow in Wellington, former National Party leader Simon Bridges joins Danyl Mclauchlan to talk the events of 2020, what the role of the opposition...
View ArticleWhy Auckland Central is 2020's most exciting electorate
Toby Manhire, Annabelle Lee-Mather and Ben Thomas denounce new poll results that very slightly contradict their opinions.The scale of the summit for the National Party? A poll came out last week with...
View ArticleMervmania hits the 2020 election campaign
Merv Lee-Mather, Merv Thomas and Merv Manhire gather to discuss the most pressing issues of election 2020.With 39 days to go until New Zealand goes to the polls, talkback caller 'Merv' has lit up the...
View ArticleThe Gone By Lunchtime guide to political edging
Toby Manhire, Annabelle Lee-Mather and Ben Thomas forget how to record a podcast over Zoom.Most elements of life under lockdown feel a little bit easier the second time around, but not recording an...
View ArticleLate night lockdown politics with the Alert Level Three
Join the the country's most mellifluous political pod trio, the Alert Level Three, for another late night lockdown edition of Gone By Lunchtime.Covid-19 continues to dominate the political agenda, with...
View ArticleThe Gone By Lunchtime apology special
The 2020 election has risen, bleary eyed, from its slumber, and so have Annabelle, Ben and Toby.This week: Labour are promising a Matariki holiday, National are promising a health-driven response to...
View ArticleWelcome to Middelburg, Aotearoa
Ben Thomas never attends a party without a whakataukī in his pocket, and he does not disappoint in this week's edition of Gone By Lunchtime.Along with Annabelle Lee-Mather and Toby Manhire, Ben...
View ArticleThe best and worst of last night’s debates
Election debate season is finally upon us, and the Gone By Lunchtime trio are here to talk Tuesday night’s two big debates. The Hui’s livestreamed Waiariki candidate debate between Hannah Tamaki,...
View ArticleThe second NZ leaders' debate, assessed
Toby Manhire, Annabelle Lee Mather, Ben Thomas and a very special guest go over what we learned from last night’s Newshub leaders’ debate between Jacinda Ardern and Judith Collins. It’s a four-person...
View ArticleJudgement day beckons after the third leaders' debate
Annabelle Lee-Mather, Ben Thomas and Toby Manhire assess the Press debate in Christchurch, National's leaky redux, the advance voting surge and the rest of the big stories with a week and a half to...
View ArticleThe final countdown to Election 2020
Annabelle Lee-Mather, Ben Thomas and Toby Manhire gather around the giant orb of truth for the last time before polls close to assess the parties' campaigns, select the seats they'll be drooling over,...
View ArticleBonus episode: On the road with Alex Braae
The Bulletin's Alex Braae, fresh from his tour of Aotearoa, joins Toby Manhire to reveal what he witnessed on the road in this special pre-election bonus episode of Gone By Lunchtime.For 40 days and 40...
View ArticleThe morning after election night, with Chlöe Swarbrick
Greens MP Chlöe Swarbrick joins Annabelle Lee Mather, Ben Thomas and Toby Manhire to pick over the remains of election night in a special Sunday edition of Gone By Lunchtime.It's the morning after a...
View ArticleA rummage through Labour's new cabinet
Toby Manhire, Annabelle Lee Mather and Ben Thomas return, electrolytes replenished after the election marathon, to assess the newly-announced Labour cabinet and more.It’s been 17 days since the...
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