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Never mind whereās the beef, whereās my $30?I have been pulling at a thread that began with something Mimi Gilmour said as she explained why herĀ Burger BurgerĀ was in receivership. To make the sums work, she said, sheād have to charge thirty dollars a burger, and you canāt sell a burger for thirty dollars. -
No one anywhere should ever be getting something that I donātAnd other canards that legrope usĀ 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 -
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Get a load of what these people are thinking they can doWhat was it they kept saying last election, in between dog whistles aboutĀ the Mahhrees? It was:Ā 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 insteadIn the last post aboutĀ 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 isnāt enough. When lakes run