Why Can’t We Talk Like This in 2025?
Dare we not to have these conversations again in person, since people seem to have a remarkable propensity to blank-out the political issues of the 20-50 years before they were born?
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One Nation Is a Party on the Rise
Australians respect a sincere battler who says out loud what everyone is thinking.
What Privilege Sounds Like in 2025
RNZ, as a taxpayer-owned entity has a responsibility to ensure its coverage of news and current affairs is neutral, fair and balanced – an obligation that it constantly disregards.
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Gisborne’s Street Protesters Celebrated a Win
According to the Gisborne Herald, the council’s chief executive mused that “another option to slow traffic could be to reduce the speed limit”. After spending a million dollars, they finally think of that.
Never Waste a Good Crisis
Go the Breakers. And go the coalition. Please. As crises go, the rot at the top of the cops is a whopper. Use it well.
Luxon’s Cosplay Will Lead to Failure
Unless it is radically rethought – or preferably abandoned – it will create more problems than it solves and set the stage for even worse legislation to follow.
Stanford Does a Reverse Ferret
And redeems herself. The furore over Treaty flip-flop boosts her credentials.
Tova O’Brien Finally Wakes up to Luxon's Poll Disaster – She’s Been Reading the Good Oil
The voters are speaking, Chris. They are just not saying what you want to hear. And the louder you keep blaming Labour, the more you sound exactly like the people we booted out two years ago.
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The Good Oil Word of the Day
The word for today is… pococurante (adjective) - : indifferent, nonchalant Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : The French writer Voltaire carefully named his characters in Candide (1759) to create allegories. He appended the prefix pan-, meaning "all," to "glōssa," the Greek word for "tongue," to name his
The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse
Pilate therefore went forth again, and saith unto them, Behold, I bring him forth to you, that ye may know that I find no fault in him.
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