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Reminiscent of Marie Antoinette’s “Let them eat cake” as a expression of not caring and/or not being aware. It’s the opposite of being ‘woke’! The only difference between what Marie Antoinette said and what Luxon said, is that Marie-Antoinette did not say …

5-6% over multiple pregnancies: 1in 18 and higher rates in the US than the UK, and worse in hospitals than for home births because of infection rates. Fascinating stats. Seamen in sailing ships at that time had an annual death rate of 1:39, 13 times higher …

We talked about ‘the beast’ last night in the pub with reference to Yeats’ poem ‘The Second Coming’ where “the centre cannot hold”- one of our pundits said that the centre of politics no longer was where the power to change governments lay. Yeats at the …

I half remembered a book I read on German history about the banality of evil. It gave a % of population that triggered a racist reaction or rejection of a group once it reached a certain point. AI came up with a writer Hannah Arendt who AI postulated …

I got this from The Guardian today, about the US attack on an Iranian wedding. This is V-P Vance. “In a further comment, described by the congressman Ro Khanna, a Democrat from California, as “gaslighting”, the vice-president said the conflict between the …

Cornflakes this morning, then?

Maybe our billionaire friend should find what is deeply American, Something like what is written on the Statue of Liberty- a sonnet, no less, which ends “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of …

How much do we owe to Samuel Parnell? https://teara.govt.nz/en/1966/eight-hour-day-movement How much to the Liberal government? https://teara.govt.nz/en/1966/social-security How much to the 1935 Labour government and the unions? https://teara.govt.nz/en/ …

I’ll not quibble with you over the choice of countries for comparison. They were countries chosen by Paul Henry himself. See paragraph 8ff. As for us being poorer than those you cite. Taylor anticipated this when he wrote- “Henry then went on to inform us …

Will he stay or will he go? “First five-eighth Richie Mo’unga to join All Blacks in South Africa”- Stuff There has to be some good news alongside the fact that Luxon is still there, that Luxon by sacking a senior minister has proved that they are not …

Stuff reports. “Veteran Labour MP Damien O’Connor has arrived with a supply of Sweet & Salty Kettle Corn, and dropped off a few bags of popcorn to press gallery reporters who are waiting for news from the National Party caucus room. He said popcorn seemed …

Not considering at all what the policies themselves are. That’s another issue. Every election we get accusations of not providing policy at all, or not enough or in a time frame that opponents want so they can mount countermoves. Providing policy counters …

This article is from the Guardian in 2025. The authors now have a new book published on the same topic. The rise of the authoritarian Right allied with conservative religion and end times, survivalism and the Rapture. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng …

This letter writer in today’s The Press got it right, titled Chinese response. “I feel I must come out of the closet as a communist shill who ingeniously manages to clutch pearls while lying like a flatfish and blowing my nose because of my snivelling …

What a ham. (Used for someone who overacts on stage or acts silly and dramatic in real life just to get laughs and attention.)