While Luxon might be far less of a PM than any of us want, the identity-obsessed opposition is so appalling that it is difficult to imagine anyone contemplating voting for them unless they are alos personally fixated with identity categories as their sole interest. Three more years of the country being divided up into identity categories of gender, race, sexuality etc would be devastating for national identity and cohesion. The only positive is that Labour would be unlikely to try to bring back second class citizenship status on the unvaccinated this time. And as for their coalition partners, TPM are obsessed by race and grievance, while the Greens seem far more focused on hating Israel and cis-gendered orthodoxy than loving either NZ or Aotearoa, so it's hard to see either party doing much for this country.
You had better brace yourself, then, Christopher, the latest Roy Morgan poll puts Labour-Green-TPM ahead of National-Act-NZ First by 50 percent to 46.5 percent. The Nats themselves are down to 29 percent! Luxon will have to watch his back.
If this weren't enough to strike "fear and loathing" into one's heart contemplate the spectre that Toitu te Tiriti/Te Pati Maori are proposing: that of completely separate Maori states within NZ, subject to their own laws and independent governance. The document Maranga Mai! put out by the Human Rights Commission (2022) lays out the blueprint for Maori sovereignty. Writing in The Spinoff recently, Eru Kapa-Kingi, leader of Toitu te Tiriti, rejects the Treaty settlement process altogether. He calls for restoring Māori authority over whenua rangatira, creating hapū-based systems of decision-making outside of Crown control. So don't only brace ourselves, but start thinking about how to vote strategically in the next election. A lot can happen in politics in a year!
I'd still take the TAB odds on the Nats forming a government after the election.
The rural sector will deliver; they're leading the recovery post covid. Lock them in thanks Eddie.
For the left to win they need Auckland. And Auckland, and Aucklanders, still haven't forgotten, or forgiven. Hipkins still triggers for many and his coalition partners still cause concern.
You have to dominate the centre to win in NZ - I don't see the teamwork from the left to convince us otherwise?
My experienced nose tells me that though as usual your articles are so right this time I don't think so. Then problem Luxon has with his electorate ( me included) that we do not trust him.
And the economy is not going to produce wonderfulness either, forget interest rates. Let's see now, There are 376,000 residential mortgages in 2025 according to the Reserve Bank, there where 912,420 super annuitants (wife and I included) to the end of 2024m and we are struggling...so are the mortgage holders interest rates own, insurance and rates and groceries bury the interest rates reduction including super annuitants savings going down. The economy is not going to help them and Luxon will not gain our trust, sorry Chris!
SK: "the economy is not going to produce wonderfulness"
While I agree, it would be good if we had some recognition of the causes of (and maybe some solutions to) our economic malaise.
We've now had fifty years of continuous current account deficits, at times at the highest rate in the developed world. What are the implications? We (individuals, businesses or government) have to balance the bleeding with borrowing or by selling assets. It's serious, we should be having an adult conversation about that, stop digging a deeper hole at least..
I live in the South Island and as spring begins we look at the barren Southern Alps with insufficient snow cover to fill the South Island hydro lakes. These lakes sit right now at 75% of their mean level for this time of year. Our gas reserves have been dramatically written down this year. We are running low on energy reserves. As you suggest, National may well benefit from a favourable point in the monetary cycle next year but the tide is going out on out energy reserves and as that reality hits our homes and industries it will make for angry voters.
I was watching a South Island reporter on One News just the other day and couldn't help noticing the lack of snow on the Southern Alps. As you say, Stephen, that's not a good sign - for anyone.
Yes Stephen, abundant and affordable energy is vital.
We should be OK with our resources but the decision to abandon gas exploration is, increasingly, looking very foolish; amply illustrated by the European's decision to go down the same road with consequent high energy costs and loss of industry. Worse, we have implanting a political risk; a higher risk premium and aversion to investment extending to the broader economy the easily predictable consequence. Good luck trying to build a prosperous future flogging imported goods at Ikea or and Costco.
The government are trying to fast track multiple developments (including development of Taupo geothermal *) but these things take years or decades to bear fruit. Not much immediate help election wise.
Thanks for the share. I agree wholeheartedly that we should be building out Geothermal. We were once a world leader in this field and it has huge potential for us. It's mostly in the upper north island where our population is and should form the base of our firming electricity source. We should be walking away from fossil fuels. The prior ban was merely formalising the lack of success of the prior 10-15yrs of exploration. I'd far rather Shano took the $200M he wants to put into oil & gas exploration and put it into geothermal.
For the rest of us we need to get off gas as fast as we can and look to the government to make that transition equitable for all. For me it beggars belief that anyone installs gas or gas appliances in new homes and buildings, or even upgrades them for that matter.
Removing gas for peak power generation, industrial, commercial and household use is very expensive; in some situations practically impossible*. Entirely replacing it with electricity we don't have even more so. Could a government survive the consequent convulsion?
There is a lot of coal (100s of years supply) that can be gasified so that's certainly worth consideration.
*steel making and Kapuni fertilizer plant for instance
Can’t say I agree Chris. Luxon, as PM was a good choice in the current circumstances. Regardless of Charisma and just plain likability which he lacks, he was the CEO type who could get this current coalition organised and in motion. Since then he has worked tirelessly trying to gee up trade, cut the administrative waste, try and make it easier to build houses and everything else. I don’t see that as luck and he certainly has had no thanks for his efforts to date..Imo we are a silly little country in that regard. He will need a little luck for the inevitable upturn to show itself before next years election, but I’m sure that was the plan. He has had luck that the export prices for meat and dairy are good, but countering that the tariff debacle won’t be helpful. I believe Serge is correct in that those doing it hard don’t give a toss about the economy they just need more to spend, although we all know that will never improve until the economy does, funny that. Those who vote for Labour will be those who want/need more money and know that Labour will happily borrow more to keep them happy. If an incoming Labour coalition was able to dish out more cash it would be directly because Luxons’ government has repaired the economy enough for that to happen, so where’s the justice in that.. I don’t like some of National’s polices, but if this Labour group is re elected, we deserve every disastrous financial decision they will inevitably make.
Have to agree but Luxon's pace of change has been glacial. Cancelled plenty of stuff. Will be economically tragic if we go through three yearly changes in government. Given the post covid distrust and dislke of govenment and authority in general this is a feasible scenario. Aging farmers who may yet rescue the overall economy will not respond well to another assault on their livelihoods.
One thing I was thinking today , Luxon is probably a good manager. Despite his low ratings , there hasn't been a whipser of a challenge , or even of much discontent amongst his MPs. ( i dont take the Willis whisper at all seriuosly. on the other hand he doesnt seem to be able to pull in Seymour and Winston , though he Has also managed to avoid any suggestion of a split in the coalition too.
That’s my take David. Many from the right won’t like the pace of his achievements but his reality is he needs the coalition to be re elected. That requires keeping the middle ground to a degree. Example, if he goes against the Paris accord now, imagine the opposition dining out on that. All three parties would be like wolves on a carcass imo.
The big win* for the increasingly radical Maori Party in Auckland raises a few questions for Labour.
Imagine trying to form a workable coalition with deranged ethnonationalists and deluded Marxists. Could a "grand coalition" (Nat & Lab) be a possibility?
* TMP won twice the votes of Labour from a tiny turn out - only 22% voted
The left can win , and it will be because of female voters. Apart from pay equity , and other things National have done , it is homeless woman on the streets that will sink the coalition. Woman will look at them and think , I could be one divorce and / or job loss away from that. Of course Labour has to convince them they will do better.
but I don't think Labour should rush into belting out policy like commentators are saying. take their time and get it right , and hopefully something inspirational , not just National done better.
Many female voters have left the left since it has a mantrum if asked what a woman is, and women’s rights are no longer based on sex but instead are to include men’s special gender feels. Idgaf when I’m dismissed for saying so, I get to withhold my vote from these contemptible frauds and to persuade as many other women to do do as I can.
The Left block seem to delight in these ideas, the madder the better. Good on you for pointing them out. Alienate women, men, farmers, motorists, business people, Pakehas and what are you left with? Carless unemployed Maori transvestites are not a big base.
I don't know if Labour can even see the danger or are prepared to change direction if they could. They're kind of trapped given their cuddling up to the delusional Maori party and Greens.
Except that is not recent polls say. The Left has the great majority of women, especially under 50. And it seems a majority of men under 30. National support seems to be basically people over 50, and particularly people over 65.
There seems to be a generational back lash ahgainmst baby boomers.
They are irrevocably immersed in identity, the only thing you got wrong is that anyone living in a car would have a good reason to vote for them, they have abandoned socio-economic class concerns.
Perhaps the abuse and threats visited upon the likes of JK Rowling or Posie Parker are, in the eyes of some, fully justified given they're pawns of the "extreme right".
It's not trivial, a mere distraction, there is a multi front war going on for the future of civilisation itself.
"Resentment and narcissism are of course not limited to those on the Marxist-inspired left. It also underlies the development of far-right and even nationalist thinking. Yet the viral model of the transmission of Marxist thinking – mindful of the dangers of stretching the applicability of a model too far – is also suggestive of a fundamental difference of the function of the right and the left and of the different dangers they pose. If the far left represents a viral invasion of the body politic, the far right represents the reactive overdrive of the immune system. The present pandemic has demonstrated how in severe cases the body’s immune system itself is what threatens the life of the patient. Perhaps – although one would not want to offer false hope – the viral model holds out the possibility that Marxism will evolve, as do viruses, to become less dangerous. Were America, Europe or other parts of the free world to become communist, it is possible that we might not see a repeat of the genocides and gulags of Soviet Russia, the Cultural Revolution of Mao’s China and the killing fields of Cambodia. However, I would not be willing to place that much faith in a speculative model to wish to live through that experiment."
Well of course conservatives are going to exploit the wokester's stonking great open goal.
Remember Kamala's pledge to fund trans surgery for illegal immigrants? No doubt the prospect of legions of lisping lady-boys invading the border wasn't a vote winner but the Trump campaign kept it simple with their "they're for "they them", we're for you" ads. Ads so effective that there was an immediate 2.6% swing in their favour in the polls.
The progressives started a war, now they want a cease fire. Too late; woke is dying at the hands of its own absurdities.
"This parrot is no more! He has ceased to be! 'E's expired and gone to meet 'is maker! 'E's a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed 'im to the perch 'e'd be pushing up the daisies! 'Is metabolic processes are now 'istory! 'E's off the twig! 'E's kicked the bucket, 'e's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible!!"
I don't know about that David, have you seen any research on women's attitudes to trans in sport and women's spaces? Perhaps the women I know aren't representative but that has not been my observation.
Though it's proven (and unsurprising) that women tend to instinctively be more sympathetic and do tend to fall for idiot ideas like Jacinda's "politics of kindness". A contagion of suicidal empathy?
Yes, unfortunately many women are easily shamed, especially by other women, by allegations of being insufficiently nice, kind, caring, empathic etc. Ironically this type of female on female social control is being done in the name of a “feminism” that insists on including men with cross-dressing fetish. This dynamic has been bubbling away beneath the surface for years now in NZ but the “be kind” types are everywhere in the media, politics and the professional managerial class so it’s not always well understood by the normies. “Be kind” has become a weapon of choice for regime women to shut up other women. And the regime women are, of course, far from kind to the disobedient and disagreeable.
The sporting bodies and governments are taking it seriously and there are many making a very reasonable case for biological sex (AKA birth gender) to be the determining factor. Sports women Martina Navratilova and Riley Gaines for example
Yeah sure, that’s why the term “terf” was coined, all those men pushing back against the genderborg and getting r-pe threats from the cross-dresser cult
While Luxon might be far less of a PM than any of us want, the identity-obsessed opposition is so appalling that it is difficult to imagine anyone contemplating voting for them unless they are alos personally fixated with identity categories as their sole interest. Three more years of the country being divided up into identity categories of gender, race, sexuality etc would be devastating for national identity and cohesion. The only positive is that Labour would be unlikely to try to bring back second class citizenship status on the unvaccinated this time. And as for their coalition partners, TPM are obsessed by race and grievance, while the Greens seem far more focused on hating Israel and cis-gendered orthodoxy than loving either NZ or Aotearoa, so it's hard to see either party doing much for this country.
I cannot believe New Zealanders are so stupid that they would even contemplate voting for Hipocritkins
You had better brace yourself, then, Christopher, the latest Roy Morgan poll puts Labour-Green-TPM ahead of National-Act-NZ First by 50 percent to 46.5 percent. The Nats themselves are down to 29 percent! Luxon will have to watch his back.
If this weren't enough to strike "fear and loathing" into one's heart contemplate the spectre that Toitu te Tiriti/Te Pati Maori are proposing: that of completely separate Maori states within NZ, subject to their own laws and independent governance. The document Maranga Mai! put out by the Human Rights Commission (2022) lays out the blueprint for Maori sovereignty. Writing in The Spinoff recently, Eru Kapa-Kingi, leader of Toitu te Tiriti, rejects the Treaty settlement process altogether. He calls for restoring Māori authority over whenua rangatira, creating hapū-based systems of decision-making outside of Crown control. So don't only brace ourselves, but start thinking about how to vote strategically in the next election. A lot can happen in politics in a year!
Luxon has to go!
Roy Morgan has historically been an erratic poll.
But the younger generation of Maori activist and Green supporters will.
I'd still take the TAB odds on the Nats forming a government after the election.
The rural sector will deliver; they're leading the recovery post covid. Lock them in thanks Eddie.
For the left to win they need Auckland. And Auckland, and Aucklanders, still haven't forgotten, or forgiven. Hipkins still triggers for many and his coalition partners still cause concern.
You have to dominate the centre to win in NZ - I don't see the teamwork from the left to convince us otherwise?
When you put it that pithily, Dave, it's hard to disagree!
Hipkins was in the UK getting tips from Keir Starmer recently. I wonder what they talked about?
Locking up comedians and mums worried about the safety of their families?
Filling the country up with rapey migrants?
Crashing the economy?
Taxing the bejesus out of everyone?
Picking on the Jews?
Shutting down industry with high energy costs?
Establishing a two tier justice system?
All of the above?
My experienced nose tells me that though as usual your articles are so right this time I don't think so. Then problem Luxon has with his electorate ( me included) that we do not trust him.
And the economy is not going to produce wonderfulness either, forget interest rates. Let's see now, There are 376,000 residential mortgages in 2025 according to the Reserve Bank, there where 912,420 super annuitants (wife and I included) to the end of 2024m and we are struggling...so are the mortgage holders interest rates own, insurance and rates and groceries bury the interest rates reduction including super annuitants savings going down. The economy is not going to help them and Luxon will not gain our trust, sorry Chris!
Hmmm ..... Those are all good points, Serge. You're in serious danger of changing my mind!
SK: "the economy is not going to produce wonderfulness"
While I agree, it would be good if we had some recognition of the causes of (and maybe some solutions to) our economic malaise.
We've now had fifty years of continuous current account deficits, at times at the highest rate in the developed world. What are the implications? We (individuals, businesses or government) have to balance the bleeding with borrowing or by selling assets. It's serious, we should be having an adult conversation about that, stop digging a deeper hole at least..
I live in the South Island and as spring begins we look at the barren Southern Alps with insufficient snow cover to fill the South Island hydro lakes. These lakes sit right now at 75% of their mean level for this time of year. Our gas reserves have been dramatically written down this year. We are running low on energy reserves. As you suggest, National may well benefit from a favourable point in the monetary cycle next year but the tide is going out on out energy reserves and as that reality hits our homes and industries it will make for angry voters.
I was watching a South Island reporter on One News just the other day and couldn't help noticing the lack of snow on the Southern Alps. As you say, Stephen, that's not a good sign - for anyone.
Yes Stephen, abundant and affordable energy is vital.
We should be OK with our resources but the decision to abandon gas exploration is, increasingly, looking very foolish; amply illustrated by the European's decision to go down the same road with consequent high energy costs and loss of industry. Worse, we have implanting a political risk; a higher risk premium and aversion to investment extending to the broader economy the easily predictable consequence. Good luck trying to build a prosperous future flogging imported goods at Ikea or and Costco.
The government are trying to fast track multiple developments (including development of Taupo geothermal *) but these things take years or decades to bear fruit. Not much immediate help election wise.
* https://www.nzherald.co.nz/rotorua-daily-post/news/taupo-geothermal-zones-energy-potential-spurs-10m-in-government-funding-for-exploration/EWHPPK3AORHNNBS6TJT72CUDL4/
Thanks for the share. I agree wholeheartedly that we should be building out Geothermal. We were once a world leader in this field and it has huge potential for us. It's mostly in the upper north island where our population is and should form the base of our firming electricity source. We should be walking away from fossil fuels. The prior ban was merely formalising the lack of success of the prior 10-15yrs of exploration. I'd far rather Shano took the $200M he wants to put into oil & gas exploration and put it into geothermal.
For the rest of us we need to get off gas as fast as we can and look to the government to make that transition equitable for all. For me it beggars belief that anyone installs gas or gas appliances in new homes and buildings, or even upgrades them for that matter.
Removing gas for peak power generation, industrial, commercial and household use is very expensive; in some situations practically impossible*. Entirely replacing it with electricity we don't have even more so. Could a government survive the consequent convulsion?
There is a lot of coal (100s of years supply) that can be gasified so that's certainly worth consideration.
*steel making and Kapuni fertilizer plant for instance
Can’t say I agree Chris. Luxon, as PM was a good choice in the current circumstances. Regardless of Charisma and just plain likability which he lacks, he was the CEO type who could get this current coalition organised and in motion. Since then he has worked tirelessly trying to gee up trade, cut the administrative waste, try and make it easier to build houses and everything else. I don’t see that as luck and he certainly has had no thanks for his efforts to date..Imo we are a silly little country in that regard. He will need a little luck for the inevitable upturn to show itself before next years election, but I’m sure that was the plan. He has had luck that the export prices for meat and dairy are good, but countering that the tariff debacle won’t be helpful. I believe Serge is correct in that those doing it hard don’t give a toss about the economy they just need more to spend, although we all know that will never improve until the economy does, funny that. Those who vote for Labour will be those who want/need more money and know that Labour will happily borrow more to keep them happy. If an incoming Labour coalition was able to dish out more cash it would be directly because Luxons’ government has repaired the economy enough for that to happen, so where’s the justice in that.. I don’t like some of National’s polices, but if this Labour group is re elected, we deserve every disastrous financial decision they will inevitably make.
Have to agree but Luxon's pace of change has been glacial. Cancelled plenty of stuff. Will be economically tragic if we go through three yearly changes in government. Given the post covid distrust and dislke of govenment and authority in general this is a feasible scenario. Aging farmers who may yet rescue the overall economy will not respond well to another assault on their livelihoods.
One thing I was thinking today , Luxon is probably a good manager. Despite his low ratings , there hasn't been a whipser of a challenge , or even of much discontent amongst his MPs. ( i dont take the Willis whisper at all seriuosly. on the other hand he doesnt seem to be able to pull in Seymour and Winston , though he Has also managed to avoid any suggestion of a split in the coalition too.
That’s my take David. Many from the right won’t like the pace of his achievements but his reality is he needs the coalition to be re elected. That requires keeping the middle ground to a degree. Example, if he goes against the Paris accord now, imagine the opposition dining out on that. All three parties would be like wolves on a carcass imo.
Yes, well UK comedian Dominic Frisby says "We're all far right now"... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsbRrTULpgA
The big win* for the increasingly radical Maori Party in Auckland raises a few questions for Labour.
Imagine trying to form a workable coalition with deranged ethnonationalists and deluded Marxists. Could a "grand coalition" (Nat & Lab) be a possibility?
* TMP won twice the votes of Labour from a tiny turn out - only 22% voted
Oh I don’t know, I think we can count on a few dramas and pitfalls in the next year. Judith still seems to be grinding something!
The left can win , and it will be because of female voters. Apart from pay equity , and other things National have done , it is homeless woman on the streets that will sink the coalition. Woman will look at them and think , I could be one divorce and / or job loss away from that. Of course Labour has to convince them they will do better.
but I don't think Labour should rush into belting out policy like commentators are saying. take their time and get it right , and hopefully something inspirational , not just National done better.
Many female voters have left the left since it has a mantrum if asked what a woman is, and women’s rights are no longer based on sex but instead are to include men’s special gender feels. Idgaf when I’m dismissed for saying so, I get to withhold my vote from these contemptible frauds and to persuade as many other women to do do as I can.
The Left block seem to delight in these ideas, the madder the better. Good on you for pointing them out. Alienate women, men, farmers, motorists, business people, Pakehas and what are you left with? Carless unemployed Maori transvestites are not a big base.
I don't know if Labour can even see the danger or are prepared to change direction if they could. They're kind of trapped given their cuddling up to the delusional Maori party and Greens.
Except that is not recent polls say. The Left has the great majority of women, especially under 50. And it seems a majority of men under 30. National support seems to be basically people over 50, and particularly people over 65.
There seems to be a generational back lash ahgainmst baby boomers.
Check out Roy Morgan, Wayne. National on 29 percent. Not good.
They are irrevocably immersed in identity, the only thing you got wrong is that anyone living in a car would have a good reason to vote for them, they have abandoned socio-economic class concerns.
So that's your theory is it Jim?
Perhaps the abuse and threats visited upon the likes of JK Rowling or Posie Parker are, in the eyes of some, fully justified given they're pawns of the "extreme right".
It's not trivial, a mere distraction, there is a multi front war going on for the future of civilisation itself.
"Resentment and narcissism are of course not limited to those on the Marxist-inspired left. It also underlies the development of far-right and even nationalist thinking. Yet the viral model of the transmission of Marxist thinking – mindful of the dangers of stretching the applicability of a model too far – is also suggestive of a fundamental difference of the function of the right and the left and of the different dangers they pose. If the far left represents a viral invasion of the body politic, the far right represents the reactive overdrive of the immune system. The present pandemic has demonstrated how in severe cases the body’s immune system itself is what threatens the life of the patient. Perhaps – although one would not want to offer false hope – the viral model holds out the possibility that Marxism will evolve, as do viruses, to become less dangerous. Were America, Europe or other parts of the free world to become communist, it is possible that we might not see a repeat of the genocides and gulags of Soviet Russia, the Cultural Revolution of Mao’s China and the killing fields of Cambodia. However, I would not be willing to place that much faith in a speculative model to wish to live through that experiment."
https://www.societalvalues.co.uk/the-spectre-haunting-the-west-marxism-and-the-contagion-of-resentment/
Well of course conservatives are going to exploit the wokester's stonking great open goal.
Remember Kamala's pledge to fund trans surgery for illegal immigrants? No doubt the prospect of legions of lisping lady-boys invading the border wasn't a vote winner but the Trump campaign kept it simple with their "they're for "they them", we're for you" ads. Ads so effective that there was an immediate 2.6% swing in their favour in the polls.
The progressives started a war, now they want a cease fire. Too late; woke is dying at the hands of its own absurdities.
"This parrot is no more! He has ceased to be! 'E's expired and gone to meet 'is maker! 'E's a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed 'im to the perch 'e'd be pushing up the daisies! 'Is metabolic processes are now 'istory! 'E's off the twig! 'E's kicked the bucket, 'e's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible!!"
Seems more like a male thing to be worried about.
I don't know about that David, have you seen any research on women's attitudes to trans in sport and women's spaces? Perhaps the women I know aren't representative but that has not been my observation.
Though it's proven (and unsurprising) that women tend to instinctively be more sympathetic and do tend to fall for idiot ideas like Jacinda's "politics of kindness". A contagion of suicidal empathy?
Yes, unfortunately many women are easily shamed, especially by other women, by allegations of being insufficiently nice, kind, caring, empathic etc. Ironically this type of female on female social control is being done in the name of a “feminism” that insists on including men with cross-dressing fetish. This dynamic has been bubbling away beneath the surface for years now in NZ but the “be kind” types are everywhere in the media, politics and the professional managerial class so it’s not always well understood by the normies. “Be kind” has become a weapon of choice for regime women to shut up other women. And the regime women are, of course, far from kind to the disobedient and disagreeable.
Yes Pirate. I saw a great comment recently:
“the Left have ‘be kind’ on their lips, and ‘or else’ in their eyes”.
Speculation?
Survey of attitudes to trans in women's sports from May '24.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/507023/say-birth-gender-dictate-sports-participation.aspx
The sporting bodies and governments are taking it seriously and there are many making a very reasonable case for biological sex (AKA birth gender) to be the determining factor. Sports women Martina Navratilova and Riley Gaines for example
Yeah sure, that’s why the term “terf” was coined, all those men pushing back against the genderborg and getting r-pe threats from the cross-dresser cult
How come I can access your sub-stack as a subscriber on Microsoft Edge but not Firefox, I wonder?
Firefox gives me the run-around.
I can't help you there, John, being a techno-moron from way back!