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A week or so ago I had the chance to sit and talk with him about some of the ethical questions he faces in his work and how he protects his informants.

Hosking marvelled in jaw dropping admiration at the recycled hackneyed phrase first penned by Michael Gerson as a speech writer for G W Bush back in the early 2000s :

Rang the RACE RELATIONS office, got a fuckin’ ballhead with a foreign accent who didn’t know who I was, didn’t know how to pronounce my name, didn’t even know how to spell my name, and then tried to tell me that I was talking about didn’t constitute racism.

Watching the remarks by some politicians on TV ONE last night about the upcoming Student Climate Change Protest March on the 15th of this month revealed how much this action by our young people is needed and should be supported.

I don’t see Simon as being a leader – he is still whinging like a triggered snowflake, who attempts to cruelly shoot people down by digging into their past… Jacinda joined the international socialists decades ago!

NZRU sneaks off to do a deal that will kill Pacific Rugby and they expect to get away with it. Don’t let it happen.

That former Prime Ministers, Governors-General and their surviving spouses receive a generous tax -payer funded annuity, free travel and a new car every time their old one reaches 60,000 Km, seemed to come as a surprise to TVNZ news when it learned that we’ve rewarded these people at least $3.7 million in annuities and travel in the last 5 years. Over that time I have written about this pandering to these already wealthy recipients at least twice.

In the panel on a knowledge at the hui in October 2018 on What an Alternative and Progressive Trade Strategy for New Zealand, Maori commentator Carrie Stoddart-Smith, from Ngāpuhi and Ngāti Whātua, talked about the international trade regime from the perspective of maraturanga Maori.

Remember how it was preached from newspapers that wealth would trickle down from the wealthy to the poor and for three decades everything slid as the rich got richer and the poor got the picture?