Thursday, September 30, 2010

A Daihatsu society with BMW pretensions

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(First published in the Curmudgeon column, The Dominion Post , September 28.) SEAN Plunket wrote a thoughtful column in this paper last Satu...
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Wednesday, September 22, 2010

A cruisy ride for the august professor

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TV One’s Close Up last night provided further evidence (not that it was needed) of the media’s unquestioning acceptance of the shrill propag...
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Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Holding the line against the neo-wowsers

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I’m not in the habit of expressing unalloyed admiration for politicians of any colour, but the more I see and hear of Transport Minister Ste...
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Monday, September 20, 2010

When the schoolyard bully is a principal

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I'm surprised more hasn’t been made of the contemptible schoolyard bullying reported last week by TV3 political editor Duncan Garner. Pr...
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Saturday, September 18, 2010

The other South Island fault line

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(First published in the Nelson Mail and Manawatu Standard , September 15.) Not one but two hitherto unsuspected fault lines have emerged in ...
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Friday, September 17, 2010

ACT enters the terminal phase of self-destruction

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Will ACT survive the next election? I don’t think anyone will be betting the house on it right now. The party seems determined to disembowel...
Thursday, September 16, 2010

Cloistered institutions both

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One of the interesting sidelights of the Stephen Wilce affair has been the glimpse it affords into the culture of the defence establishment....
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