Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Union lobbyists good, business lobbyists bad

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In Orwell’s Animal Farm , it was “four legs good, two legs bad”. In the New Zealand Labour Party, some of whose MPs seem capable of Orwell...
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Monday, July 23, 2012

Damn. Where will we go for dinner now?

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Wendy and Jim Campbell served their last dinner on Saturday night. Their regular customers – and there were quite a few of them – will be ...
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Friday, July 20, 2012

What would Baron de Coubertin think?

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(First published in the Nelson Mail and Manawatu Standard , July 18.) It probably hasn’t escaped your attention that the 2012 Olympic G...
Thursday, July 19, 2012

Another Funk Brother has played his last note

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Bob Babbitt is dead. The name will mean nothing to most people, but you’ve almost certainly heard him. Babbitt was a bass guitarist – one ...
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Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Are we one people, or what?

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(First published in The Dominion Post , July 17.) THE BIG question raised by the Maori claim to water rights is this: are we one people...
Tuesday, July 17, 2012

News flash! Academics side with teachers

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The least surprising news item in today’s Dominion Post was the one revealing that more than 100 academics have written to the government...
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Monday, July 9, 2012

All it needed was a one-word text message

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One News wasted more than four minutes of prime bulletin time last night on a shrill beat-up about a banned gambler receiving text message...
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