Slack Friday Special!

I wrote last week describing my relief at getting out from under a goddamn virus. Sure enough I was tempting fate. I am now getting out from under a goddamn chest infection. Today, day five of the antibiotics, is for sure the the best day yet. Amazing what a few

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.

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

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