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London Housing And Living Costs

3 items · 2 aliases · peaked week of 14 Jun 2026 · first seen 30 Apr 2026

The article argues that the UK overseas education route is increasingly unaffordable and unappealing for young New Zealanders, with many opting instead for cheaper, more accessible destinations like Australia or Ireland.

Volume by source orientation Methodology →

Stacked weekly counts; colour by lean. “n/a” covers government and iwi-Māori sources where lean isn't applicable.

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How this topic has been named, week by week. A new alias winning out is usually a framing shift.

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In the press Methodology →

How the news corpus has covered this same topic over the last 12 weeks. 2 articles from RNZ, Stuff, NZ Herald, ODT, 1News, Newsroom and The Spinoff. Click through to the press view for the full panel.

12-week press volume 2 articles
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Heard on radio

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  • Mike Hosking mike-hosking-breakfast Full Show Podcast: 17 June 2026 16 Jun · 137s
    Mike on streaming numbers, I deal with property maintenance, and I'm finding a lot of people stream now rather than go through a TV aerial, no replacing cables, getting on roofs, etc. Uh, Mike, we paid 45 bucks. This is the football. Uh, would have paid up to a hundred without question any more than that, I would have struggled with justifying the cost. I honestly think TVNZ undershot their price point. So we'll be interested to know at the end of the tournament if they came out with a profit. Well, you'll never know that. Uh, because even though they're a state-owned and publicly accountable company, I don't think you're going to be able to find the numbers in there that would give you uh and and I don't care. They can do whatever they like. I'm just interested as an exercise because it's a pivotal point in their that company's future at the moment as they move allegedly into more that pay-for-view side of the equation through their streaming service. As to what they paid, whether it was a lost leader, just to get people involved, get them across the the hurdle of the idea that they can charge money for something. Uh more importantly, to my mind, is once you've got something like the World Cup, that's about as good as it gets in terms of revenue generation. So what else have you got for me now that I might want to pay money for? And at 45 it seems a bargain to me, but you'd need to be a massive football fan to pay the 45 because the main game, i.e. the all whites, uh you don't have to pay a cent for. So it's uh it's an interesting thing that I'd love to know. I'll ring old Salve. I'll get him to investigate. Um message Mike, Ginny the Ninny. Do the work Labour have done the same thing they did in opposition last time, nothing. They've got no policies because, well, that's not true. They've got no policies because they have not done the work. They are praying they get lucky off the back of the stupidity of the average Kiwi at the election. And that's that's the conundrum for me at the moment is earlier on in the program. That's what I can't get my head around at the moment. When the government was struggling, say a year or so back, and Labour was saying nothing, they were winning by saying nothing. Now they're being forced to say something, and the moment they say something it looks calamitous, and it's shambolic. And the more they say, the worse it looks. But the question I ask you is does it matter? And is it just not simply about an equation for most voters? You either like what you got currently or you don't. And if you don't, doesn't matter what the other is, you're just voting for it anyway. Nine away from nine.
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Sample framings

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mike-hosking-breakfast Government / N-A

ruinous and deeply resentful

Full Show Podcast: 17 June 2026
16 Jun
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