5 Best Trends of 2026

5. Imported cigarettes – 20 dollars for a pack of Marlboro golds? Uhm, yes please! Yummy! 4. Aura Farming Battles – At least they are outside making friends 3. Vandalizing National Party signs – Just like a flag can only represent freedom if that freedom includes the ability for it to be burned […]
5 Worst Albums of 2026

5. Reality Awaits – The Strokes: This album is disappointment in a fucking CD case, we deserved better. 4. Music, Fashion, Film – Charli XCX: Honestly, Charli slayed so hard with Brat that everything else she makes is mid. 3. Daughter From Hell – Gracie Abrams: As a species, we, as humans, must come together […]
Best Music of 2026

5. Dancing on the Wall – Muna: Lans threatened to kidnap us unless we put this on the list, we have families too yk. 4. Nothings About to Happen to Me – Mitski: Hold space for her, she is beautiful. 3. The Mountain – Gorillaz: WE ARE SO BACK, BABY! THIS IS THE GORILLAZ WE […]
Good News

KNICKS IN FIVE The New York Knicks took home the Larry O’Brien Championship Trophy as the victors of the NBA finals, beating the San Antonio Spurs 4-1 and becoming champs for the first time since 1973. WSU Got A Bakery?! If you didn’t know, the Yellow Bird Bakery opened on the Hamilton campus for a six-week […]
News Stories of 2026

landslide – January 22nd: Following extreme rainfall, Mount Maunganui (otherwise known as Mauao) suffers a devastating landslide, destroying both the Mount Maunganui Beachside Holiday Park, and the well-known hot pools. Six people die as the massive amounts of mud, silt, and water engulf the main amenities block, including a well-known Morrinsville teacher who was regarded as […]
Still Kickflipping in Gaza

An Interview with Rajab Al-Reefi by Toby Brockelbank Nexus have been working on this interview since July as, “Communicating with the outside world is extremely difficult, because electricity is unavailable, the internet is very weak, and sometimes it cuts off for days”. We are very grateful and proud to announce that we have another interview […]
There Is No War In Ba Sing Se West Papua

West Papua is one of the most linguistically diverse regions in the world. It’s also home to a breathtaking display of both cultural and ecological diversity, with 80% of West Papua dense with tropical rainforests, surrounded by mangroves, wetlands and alpine central highlands with their marine ecosystems hosting the highest diversity of coral and fish […]
Parliamentary etiquette is gone. Why?

In bed the other day, I scrolled upon a reel of every stupid thing that has been said in the House of Parliament by the 54th government, and boy was some of it stupid. While yes, a large amount of it was funny, most of it was hugely inappropriate for government officials to be saying […]
ZURU ARE TRYING TO BE ELECTION GURUS

The debate around the topic of election interference reached a boiling point recently with the release of Nicky Hager’s book Dirty Work, a follow-up to the 2014 book Dirty Politics. In the book, which primarily focuses on the movements of Jordan Williams’s Taxpayers’ Union, Hager alleges that ZURU CEO and Billionaire Nick Mowbray and his […]
Big Girls Do Cry

Long time no see, Nexus readers. I don’t know how this happened, but I’ve been revived from my year-long slumber to write the penultimate editorial of 2026. There’s a lot of things I could say. I could tell you about the terrible state of the reality TV scene, my current obsession with knitting, or the […]