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Haeata Community Campus Principal Peggy Burrows and Deputy Prime Minister David Seymour are at odds over the cause of mold on school lunches.

Mark the Week: School lunches were the stupidest story of the week

Author: Mike Hosking ,
Publish Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2025, 10:37am

At the end of each week, Mike Hosking takes you through the big-ticket items and lets you know what he makes of it all.

Consumers: 7/10

Confidence at a 6-month high.

School lunches: 3/10

This is the stupidest story of the week. Four days it lasted – we've become myopic. We fixate on triviality. It’s got a small village idiot vibe to it, don’t you reckon?

Social media ban: 6/10

Mainly for effort, because it’s not real, it’s not practical – it’s got idealism all over it.

Pete Hegseth: 3/10

Between the narco boats and the Signal report, what odds are you running that he doesn’t make Christmas?

Rates caps: 7/10

Move of the week from the central government. If local government just stopped whining for a moment and asked themselves who the architects of the mess actually are and why, they might not have as much to moan about.

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