Newsletter
“The Grenon-Batchelor Alliance: How a Canadian Billionaire Is Weaponising New Zealand’s Courts and Media” - 17 December 2025
Cui Bono? Jim Grenon, Canadian billionaire and now director of NZME (the owner of the NZ Herald, Newstalk ZB, and 40+ news outlets), is directly funding a defamation lawsuit brought by Julian Batchelor—a promoter of racist pseudoscience about Māori origins and what he describes as Māori “character flaws.” The