Toby Manhire

Editor

Toby Manhire is the editor of the Spinoff. Email him on toby@thespinoff.co.nz

Finance minister Grant Robertson (Photo: Getty Images/Photo illustration: Tina Tiller)

Exclusive poll: Do New Zealanders back the tough border rules?

Plus, how we feel about housing affordability and the state of the NZ economy compared to the world.

By Toby Manhire | 23rd February, 2021

The first vaccines are administered. (Photo: Supplied)

Exclusive poll: One in four New Zealanders would refuse Covid vaccine. Can they be persuaded?

We asked: Are you just ‘hesitant’ and awaiting more information, or more strongly opposed to vaccines in general?

By Toby Manhire | 20th February, 2021

Jacinda Ardern and Ashley Bloomfield arrive at the Beehive press conference to announce the decision on alert levels. (Photo by Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images)

Exclusive poll: NZ support for Covid-19 response remains sky high

And it's even higher in Auckland.

By Toby Manhire | 18th February, 2021

Jacinda Ardern and Ashley Bloomfield announcing the new Covid-19 restrictions at the Beehive on the evening of February 14 (Photo: Mark Tantrum/Getty Images)

Live updates: Auckland to move to level three for 72 hours, rest of NZ goes to level two

Everything we know so far after community cases detected in Papatoetoe.

By Toby Manhire | 14th February, 2021

Director of Public Health Dr Caroline McElnay speaks to the press during a media update. (Photo: Mark Mitchell – Pool/Getty Images)

Waikato DHB to boost testing after former Pullman guest tests positive for Covid-19 in Hamilton

'We consider the public health risk to be low and people in and around Hamilton should not be alarmed.'

By Toby Manhire | 6th February, 2021

Live updates, February 1: Zero new Covid-19 cases; NZ ‘deeply concerned’ about Myanmar coup

Live updates, February 1: Zero new Covid-19 cases; NZ ‘deeply concerned’ about Myanmar coup

The latest news from NZ and around the world, updated throughout the day.

By Toby Manhire | 1st February, 2021

Three cases of Covid have now been contracted at, and emerged from, the Pullman in Auckland. Photo: RNZ / Dan Cook

Six questions sparked by the Covid cases leaking out of the Pullman hotel

There are now three returnees who contracted the virus in the Auckland isolation facility then went out into the community while positive.

By Toby Manhire | 28th January, 2021

Toby Morris

10 x 100: Motorists on driving New Zealand roads this summer

We ask 100 motorists: How has it been on the roads of Aotearoa this holiday period?

By Toby Manhire | 21st January, 2021

Scan the QR successfully to hear St Ashley Bloomfield declare, ‘What I can say is … Well done!’ (Photo: Kevin Stent/POOL)

Five ideas to fix NZ’s completely pathetic Covid QR scanning record

Hardly anyone is using their Covid Tracer app. Something needs to change.

By Toby Manhire | 15th January, 2021

Simon Bridges and Danyl Mclauchlan at Meow. Photo: Tyler Hambleton

‘The fuck-ups were all my own’: Simon Bridges on the toughest job in politics

Summer reissue: In May, Simon Bridges was rolled as the leader of the opposition. Two months later he opened up about his tenure, the state of politics in New Zealand and, of course, the baby yaks.

By Toby Manhire | 5th January, 2021