Imaginary mandate, imaginary leadership
MTAF Weekend Omnibus
Hello! Here comes the Saturday edition of More Than A Feilding, catching you up on the past week’s editions.
Your mandate is imaginary
This open-for-business, under-new-management cliché-pockmarked government of Christopher Luxon is not the thing of beauty he imagines it to be. It is not the powerful expression of the will of the people that he asserts it to be. It is not a soaring eagle, it is a malodorous vulture.
A land without pier
The land around Lyme Regis, where Meryl Streep once stood, in a hood, on the Cobb, is falling into the sea. The land around Lyme Regis, around the Cobb that made it rich, has always been falling slowly but surely into the sea.
Road photos
Have a story to share about St Paul’s, but today just pictures Popular novels written at this desk by a young man who managed to bootstrap himself out of father’s imprisonment and his own young life in a workhouse
Bread, and how it gets buttered
Hey Uncle Dave, When the Poms joined the EEC, I wasn't one of those defeatists who said, Well, that’s it for the dairy job. And I was right, eh? The Chinese can’t get enough of our milk powder and eventually, the Poms came to their senses and backed up the ute too.
Another excellent week of thought-provoking reads - thank you David.
If anyone hasn't heard this interview yet, from a woman who shares our anger, it's well worth a listen:
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/2018936954/grace-blakeley-vulture-capitalism