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So tomorrow I tell you what I won't be doing, I won't be flying to New York as my diary says. That's got a big cross scrawled...
So tomorrow we get the preliminary results of the referendums. If we believe the polls, Cannabis legalisation won’t pass...
It's that time of year when many households are bristling with stressed students frantically trying to study and prepare...
I’m wondering exactly how many people are still working from home. I see a recruitment agency saying that some bosses are...
Dawn French recently said that cancel culture is killing comedy and it’s hard to disagree with her. She said it’s in the...
We may have thought our election campaign looked dirty at times, with the odd sneer or raised eyebrow, but compare it to...
I can't help wondering and actually worrying, whether the swing left in Auckland Central, the jump in votes for the Greens...
Despite the PM acknowledging this was a Covid election, her side kick Grant Robertson said even without Covid, they'd have...
As the election campaign wraps up and we head to the polls tomorrow, those of us who haven’t already voted should remember...
Someone texted me yesterday with a theory that Judith Collins is a sacrificial lamb. They said she’s been after the National...
Being on a week’s leave was weird, mainly because I didn’t have to listen to the news, or read it, or watch it, and what...
I was talking to my daughter about pillow slips the other day, I can’t even remember why, but later when I checked my phone,...
23 days until we vote on cannabis. You’ll know if you’re a regular listener to this show that I’m of the vote no brigade. No,...
COMMENT It feels like the aftermath of that leaders' debate went on all day yesterday, didn't it? These things are often...
Twenty-five days to go until we vote and the campaign's first poll shows a tightening of the gap between the two main parties. Both...
If you want a sobering wake up call around social media, there's a new doco on Netflix which will do just that. I know people...
COMMENT So we got the GDP figure yesterday - the one we've been bracing for. The one Treasury predicted could be as bad...
This ‘team of 5 million’ response to Covid, is reliant on us actually all working as a team, which just has not, or is not...
COMMENT: So I see that yesterday we had a large gathering of well over 100 people for a gang member's funeral in Auckland. News...
COMMENT So after 14 days at 2.5 in Auckland, the news was not great yesterday was it? It's all about the cluster, and its...
COMMENT: Where’s ‘Crusher’ gone? What’s happened to Judith Collins now that she’s hit the campaign trail? I fear the same...
A lot of things have come to a grinding halt in 2020. Air travel, overseas holidays, many weddings and funerals, and yesterday...
COMMENT: Amidst the current blitz of pro-cannabis legalisation media (both social and mainstream) a few things are getting...
Our excitement in Auckland to get down to level 2 may have been slightly thwarted at the weekend by the unnecessary panic...
