Today my heart attack turns 38 and I turn 65.
It's now way older than I was when it grabbed me in a hotel bar at ten in the morning on my 27th birthday and squeezed.
So many things I think of as just the other day turn out to be 5 and 25 years ago.
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Signifying nothingA few ideas about National Party leadership -
Can't beat it on a good dayTVNZ has been talking to voters, asking them how they plan to vote and why. I came to read this edition by way of someone on BlueSky asking: Where do they find these people?? As I ploughed through it, my jaded thought was: They’re not so hard to find. -
Big smile for the cameraThis time last Monday my week took a lurch. We have a referral from your dentist, said the email from the oral and maxillofacial surgeon, we could see you tomorrow. The following afternoon I was sitting with the oral and maxillofacial surgeon as we took in the vivid three-D -
There is no denting the self-belief of this manIt’s pure reflex now. I see our Prime Minister and I think, You are just so full of it. Polling suggests I’m not alone. But there is no denting the self-belief of this man who imagines himself a hero of the self-made. Up to Rotorua he -
Only half a dozen wrong wordsMy favourite observation in David Lange's memoir was that he was always mindful waiting to go on TV that he could be only half a dozen wrong words away from imploding his political career. Those were the days. Everyone watched TV. Everyone watched the Prime Minister when he