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New Zealand has never been closed for business
Week in review, quiz style
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Vroom vroom go the big red trucks
The absolute brass neck of this guy. We want more medical doctors, not more spin doctors, Luxon was saying a couple of weeks ago, and now we’re told the…
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Backbone, revisited
The schools are on holiday and the sun is shining in the seaside village and all day long I have been seeing bunches of bikes; Mums, Dads, teens and…
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What’s a life worth now?
You're in the mall when you hear it: some kind of popping sound in the distance, kids with fireworks, maybe. But then a moment of eerie stillness is…
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State of humanity, 2024
2024, it feels, keeps presenting us with ever more challenges, ever more dismay. Do you give up yet? It seems to ask. No? How about this? Or this? How…
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Or is that just what they want us to think?
Thinking about Reality Check Radio
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Small accomplishments and large ironies
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The only thing we have to fear is tenants themselves
Week in review, quiz style
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Everything will be just fine
In our earlier days of national self-loathing, we made a special place for the attitude derided as she’ll be right. You don't hear many people younger…
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But here's my point about the large irony in what Luxon is saying
Grim old week in the media business, eh? And it’s only Wednesday, to rework an old upbeat line of poor old Neil Roberts. One of the larger dark ironies…
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Dead on target
My targets for today are: 1 newsletter sent out by 4.30pm 800 words of copy delivered to a client by COB, as we say in the world of BAU 1 dinner served…
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