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Never mind where’s the beef, where’s my $30?

24 Jun 2026 · 5 min read

I have been pulling at a thread that began with something Mimi Gilmour said as she explained why her Burger Burger was in receivership. To make the sums work, she said, she’d have to charge thirty dollars a burger, and you can’t sell a burger for thirty dollars.
No one anywhere should ever be getting something that I don’t

14 Jun 2026 · 5 min read

And other canards that legrope us Public transport: what a ghastly way to go! My very first ride ended in misery. I was 5, getting off the school bus, just a step down into the gravel outside school, but somehow I got it wrong and ended up slipping into a
The better and fuller the notes, the clearer and fuller the picture you get

07 Jun 2026 · 5 min read
Get a load of what these people are thinking they can do

03 Jun 2026 · 3 min read

What was it they kept saying last election, in between dog whistles about the Mahhrees? It was: people of New Zealand, your voice is being taken off ya, your say is being taken off ya, your democratic rights are being taken off ya. Say yeah nah to Three Waters. It
Here is what we could be doing instead

24 May 2026 · 5 min read

In the last post about Prime Minister and the Greatest Generation, I promised better options. Here they are. The reason the government wants to punt a couple of billion on an LNG project is that as good as our hydro lake system is, it isn’t enough. When lakes run

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