Luxon’s China Love-In: A Naive Waltz with the Dragon
Luxon’s China trip was less a diplomatic triumph and more a cringe-worthy display of naïvety. He’s out there kissing butt, signing deals that sound big but mean little and pretending China’s not up to its eyeballs in anti-Western scheming.
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Big Hairy Network co-host Mike “Chewie” Bennett said he was ejected from Mr Henry’s event at Dunedin’s Glenroy Auditorium on Thursday night.
The Good Oil Word of the Day
The word for today is… popinjay (noun) - : a strutting supercilious person Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : Popinjays and parrots are birds of a feather. Popinjay, from the Middle French word papegai, is the original name for a parrot in English. The French word, in turn, came from the Arabic word for
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And the chief priests accused him of many things: but he answered nothing.