May 29, 2021
Mustn’t push back
I have always been somewhat perplexed why New Zealand adopted a small, flightless, blind, solitary, largely bad-tempered bird as its national symbol despite being home to the largest eagle on record.…
The degradation of dignity
September 10, 2021
Sometimes you need a ‘thing’ to reset your internal metronome. I call it a ‘thing’ because it can be different from one person to the next. It might be doing…
Three decades to outlawed driving
September 3, 2021
This week I received the PR equivalent of a horror film. The kind you know you shouldn’t watch, but grit your teeth and do so anyway to see who makes it out…
Hold, hold, hold, shake!
August 27, 2021
As each week rolls around, you can’t help but think things couldn’t get any more absurd. It’s almost at the point where you wonder if some form of alien life…
Birds of prey
August 20, 2021
Here we are, back again at level 4. This time, at least there are more amenities open, not just for the police but also truck drivers. In that context, with…