Michael Bassett Political historian Michael Bassett CNZM is the author of 15 books, was a regular columnist for the Fairfax newspapers and a former minister in the 1984-1990 governments bassettbrashandhide.com Yesterday Graham Adams’ column referred to Michael Bassett’s now ‘infamous’ piece which earned him a lifetime ban from
If you don’t have a Silver level membership yet you are missing out on our Insight Politics articles. Thinking about the Roman Empire Like many women, my wife Amie likes to watch Instagram reels. These are little clips, mostly from the lives of women, where the algorithm figures out
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Mark Oshinskie brownstone.org Mark Oshinskie is an attorney, athlete, artist, agricultor, and advocate. When I was growing up in the 1960s-70s, we often played late summer and fall football games in various locations: on streets, vacant lots, school fields, suburban yards, a grocery store parking lot (under the lights)
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Gary Moller garymoller.com Embracing the Right Path at 70: Hey there, folks, Gary here, and I’ve got to say, it was a thrill to celebrate my 70th birthday this October. As a three-time mountain-biking Masters world champion and someone who’s had a whopping 50 years of full-time
Katie Pickles Professor of History University of Canterbury When the legendary Phar Lap won the Melbourne Cup in 1930, the big chestnut horse didn’t just live up to his Thai name, which means “lightning”. He also brought together strands of colonial history and mythology that are only now properly
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GORDON LIGHTFOOT whakatakitimes.nz CLASSY Labour MP Ginny Andersen is apparently under the impression that she lost her electorate seat in Hutt South because of one teenage volunteer who she believed “didn’t knock on enough doors” during the election campaign. Andersen has given one of the most convincing apologies
Dr. Guy David Hatchard hatchardreport.com Guy is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his Ph.D. in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. He was formerly a senior
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Arthur We’ve read about it and in some cases seen the results. A business suddenly has a brain explosion and decides to adopt some hare-brained scheme. Often this seems to be an attempt to ride what is seen as a trend or movement in society. Sometimes, considering those factors,
I started frequenting WOBH in the days before the Len Brown fiasco which put both the site and Cam on the map. At that stage, the comments section was a cesspit of abuse and swearing, but once the site gained more of a profile, a significant effort was made to
