Running with scissors, but using speech notes

Sunday column

A while before Anzac Day in Feilding in 1977 (yes, I’ve told this one before but all of a sudden it seems freshly relevant) they asked me if I’d like to give a speech on behalf of the school. 

Excellent, I thought, what a great platform to tell everyone what a mistake they all made voting for Muldoon. I welcomed any opportunity to show the narrow-minded …