Wariness in the time of plague

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.

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

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

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