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 […]
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 […]
Love, Lies, and a Concerning Amount of Lab Safety Violations
Rating: -1/5 The Love Hypothesis is the cinematic equivalent of eating an entire packet of biscuits in one sitting: deeply enjoyable, slightly embarrassing, and best not examined too closely. The film follows PhD student Olive Smith as she enters a fake relationship with intimidatingly tall and emotionally constipated professor Adam Carlsen. Naturally, the fake relationship […]