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The Stations of the Chris

07 Oct 2026 · 4 min read

Another election, another leaders' debate. I can't say I've turned on the set with any real excitement since 1984. I love you, Mr Lange, Muldoon said, perhaps sarcastically, perhaps operatically. He sang his song and not long after that it was all over. Enthralling stuff.
Untruth-telling

05 Oct 2026 · 3 min read

It wasn’t a lie, all that stuff they taught us in school about democracy. It wasn’t a lie, all that stuff they taught us in school by holding pretend elections where we earnestly set out our case in the fond understanding that voters listen carefully to all the
The long walk back

03 Oct 2026 · 1 min read
The Book of Christophers

20 Sep 2026 · 4 min read

Now in the land of the Kokako and the whitebait fritter, where both the Bird of the Year and the Prime Minister could be an impostor, there came one Christopher. And Christopher was the name of the Prime Minister. But this was not that Christopher. For this was an Other
The drawback of Auckland is that people are always against something

16 Sep 2026 · 5 min read

Let's take a walk down Queen Street to see how long people remember their politicians. Hello, you say, I'm doing a survey, do you know who Jack Allum was? By the end of your walk, you have 35 dunno, 48 who, 68 fuck off I'

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