Yeah? Well What’re You Doing About It! – National’s Bemusing Attempted Distraction On CGT Claim
I read in my newspaper yesterday afternoon that Luxon had had a rather … odd comment in reply to ANZ’s CEO saying…
Author: Curwen Rolinson
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On NZ First’s Impending Return To Parliament – Both In The Mirror & Through The Looking-Glass
There’s a quip often (and probably erroneously) attributed to Mark Twain which goes something like “History doesn’t repeat itself –…
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MUST READ: A Cost To The City – On Mayor Brown’s Most Recent Curious Initiative
It’s a curious thing watching Mayor Brown make efforts at ‘cost-saving’. In the name of this slogantastic endeavour, he’s recently…
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On The Curious Situation Of Business As Usual In Last Night’s Labour Party – The Latest Sharma Gauntlets
The latest round of Sharma disclosures are, sorry to say, “politics as usual” on pretty much all fronts. It doesn’t…
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On National’s Uffindell And The Lack Of A Statute Of Limitations In Politics
So, in the wake of last night’s breaking news as to Luxon’s man in Tauranga, we of the Lumpen Commentariat that…
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On The Meaning Of Richard Prosser – A Saddening Post-Mortem
I saw reporting (at first on twitter, and then in my personal messages) that Richard Prosser has died. I do…
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On The Alleged Tame-ing Of Luxon
I kinda feel like the sentiment about Luxon’s apparent trainwreck of an interview with Jack Tame today is … not…
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On The Actual Lessons Of Russian Equipment Losses In Ukraine
It has been said that a frequent problem of Wars Happening To Other People is that one learns decidedly the…
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Are We Heading For A “Comical Ali” Situation As Applies (Social) Media Sentiment Upon Ukraine?
Something which many have observed is that there is a bit of a .. dysjunction between what we might tactfully…
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On Recent Unwarranted Excitement About Estimated Russian Losses In Ukraine
Earlier today I saw some excitement from people in response to a US DoD assessment that the Russian military in Ukraine…