Don't let them fool you

Hello! Here comes the Saturday edition of More Than A Feilding, catching you up on the past week’s editions.

Thursday
Get better work stories, get bigger words
Luxon, NZ First, Big Tobacco, and the Scrabble of life

So. Won't it be great to see that 80 billion get invested thanks to the government plan to borrow it all and then dish it out over three big authorities responsible for getting all the overdue work done?

Oh wait! Silly us! We voted no to that because all the election billboards said this is a plan to give all the water to the Māoris. Don't divide us, lefty government and Māoris with your evil plan!

So now there's sewage in the water and all the pipes are leaking, and the wall of money is not coming to live with us and be our new Daddy after all.

Tuesday
A bit further on from the edge of nowhere
Four nice things for a Tuesday

Monday
Don’t let them fool you, ordinary folk of Aotearoa!
In order to achieve fairness, we need to allow for unfairness that has come before

I sometimes give the NZ Herald the epithet Waikato Invader in recognition of its origins: a newspaper established by Auckland business interests to press the case for a war of colonist oppression and confiscation and annihilation.

Not that they put it that way. But that’s what it was.

Its response over the weekend—the Waikato Invader— to a vast coming together of tangata whenua, a gathering of enormous meaning and power and emotion, was to all but ignore it. Given their extensive front page coverage of irate white men on tractors in recent times, it's hard not to see bias.