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The ABC Are Perfect – Just Ask Them!
The taxpayer-funded ‘Lanyard Class’ really do think they’re a law unto themselves.
Stuff’s Operating Model Is Cheap and Lazy
It seems hard to believe that, with its resources, Stuff can’t present the readers of its papers with a more compelling editorial product. I’m therefore forced to the conclusion that the company is run by people who don’t care much about newspapers.
The Profound Importance of Memory
We are thinking reeds and that is more profoundly important than you might think.
Labor Show Their True Colours on ISIS Brides
They care more about jihadi children than they do about the safety of your children.
It Is All About Control
The motivations to stop using X – be it media or now the Clerk of New Zealand’s parliament – are couched in moral terms by opponents, but it’s all really about control, curation, and censorship.
Hipkins’ State of the Nation Flop: No New Ideas, Just Old Failures and Empty Pockets
About the only thing Labour actually delivered last time round was eye-watering debt for the nation and high inflation. If you want more of that then by all means vote Labour.
Good Oil General Debate
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Face of the Day
The man killed was identified by investigators as 21-year-old Austin Tucker Martin, according to a person familiar with the matter speaking anonymously to AP.
The Good Oil Word of the Day
The word for today is… elicit (verb) - 1: to get (information, a response, etc.) from someone 2: to bring out (something latent or potential) Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : Say them fast—or even slow—in isolation, and no one will know which one you mean: elicit and illicit both rhyme
The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse
And she said, Drink, my lord: and she hasted, and let down her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink.
Manly Monday
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