Toby Manhire: Journalist from out of town

His version of the Dunedin Mayoralty race

I’ve had my stoushes on Twitter with Toby. And he was on the shareholdings of Spinoff previously and I highlighted this inconvenient fact on Twitter a few times. Spinoff claims to be local but it is just a Bauer (German press) side project as anybody can see if they email spinoff, or could anyway, I havn’t checked lately. Bauer is not exactly a small company but there was still this byline on Toby’s article “Public Interest Journalism funded through NZ On Air.” So yes we’re paying Bauer for Toby to write this article. I certainly didn’t get my value because being opposed to the covid vaccines (and every other one now) and a supporter of women’s rights to their own toilets and changing facilities Toby wasn’t going to be giving me a break. I didn’t mention transgender once by the way, I never do. I might refer to Identity Politics or women’s rights. never to transgender, not unless I’m pointing out that the biggest transphobes are those ones making hay from their distress. Say like Toby.