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Good Week/Bad Week: Peeni Henare gets to leave politics and Shane Jones channels Lady Whistledown

Summary by The Spinoff
The Spinoff’s winners and losers of the week. It was a good week for Peeni Henare, who escaped the clutches of parliament and now gets to be a normal person. This meant it was also a good week for Shane Jones who morphed into Lady Whistledown and went about proclaiming there was more to this and he’d be straight down the kumara vine to find out what. It was a bad week for Auckland university literature professor Brian Boyd, who was revealed as a…

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The Spinoff broke the news in New Zealand on Friday, February 6, 2026.
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