Luxon Needs to Button It: Winston Peters Is the Foreign Affairs Maestro
If Luxon keeps flapping his gums, he’s not just risking a tariff slap: he’s gambling with our economic future. A misstep with Trump, China or the EU could cost jobs, jack up prices and leave Kiwis cursing.
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Catching Up After the Holidays: The World Didn’t Stop and Neither Did We
I hope you’ve all enjoyed a solid break over the holidays. We certainly did, recharging for what’s ahead. Now, we’re ramped up and ready for a cracker of an election year. Let’s make it count.
Property, Ownership and the Foundations of Patriotism
Over the last 50 years, surveys in the US and Australia show a rising unwillingness to fight for one’s nation, especially among youth – from 20–30 per cent in the 1980s/1990s to 50–70 per cent in the 2020s. This decline mirrors plummeting home ownership rates among young people.
Wrong: This Isn’t a Mystery
Until the vibes change and motherhood again is presented as a deeply pleasurable and meaningful experience, young women and men will continue to choose the gym and lie-ins over the deep joy of creating new life. Shame.
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British newspaper the Independent called Bob Weir “arguably rock’s greatest, if most eccentric, rhythm guitarist”.
The Good Oil Word of the Day
The word for today is… multitudinous (adjective) - 1: including a multitude of individuals : populous 2: existing in a great multitude 3: existing in or consisting of innumerable elements or aspects Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : “I am large, I contain multitudes.” So wrote Walt Whitman in his most celebrated poem, “Song
The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse
Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.
