Māori history and culture is obviously a very important strand in New Zealand society – and often a fascinating one – but the bowdlerised and black-armband version that RNZ provides only hurts its credibility.
Fauci is now, in fact, retired. But that racket he oversaw continues on – moving money and expanding federal power at whatever level the political class can get away with at the moment.
We no longer hire miserable wretches to sit by our corpses and eat our misdeeds. Instead, we have public relations firms, crisis management consultants, and political spin doctors who will gladly swallow our worst behaviour and tell the world it tastes like heaven.