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Thought for the day, 6 March 2023

She won't ever know, but she paved the way for my kid, because she expanded the horizons of that kid's mum. She was never to be reduced to a single thing, an identity, an obliging tick in a two-dimensional box. Trans and a leader. Trans

06 Mar 2023 1 min read

Unconditional

02 Mar 2023 4 min read

Thought for the day, 27 February 2023

Chester Borrows died today. I didn't know the man in person. If I had, I can't imagine I would always have agreed with him. He was party faithful through and through: a dyed-in-the-wool Nat. I would struggle to sell my soul to the

27 Feb 2023 1 min read

Thought for the day, 15 February 2023

You don't get to lay claim to big feelings when you're warm at home and the power's on. When there's food in the fridge, and you can account for the people you love. When the mysteries of climate and science direct the

15 Feb 2023 1 min read

Giving up

When my friend and I met at a café near my work, in January, neither of us could remember the last time we’d seen one another. That wasn't just because we were, let's be honest, having trouble remembering. It was the best part of three

04 Feb 2023 4 min read

Thought for the day, 31 January 2023

I'm so delighted that Campbell Johnstone has told the world he's gay - the first All Black to do so. What I'm ambivalent about is some of the responses. Not the homophobic ones: my response to them is pretty straightforward. It's some of

31 Jan 2023 2 min read

Packing up

27 Jan 2023 4 min read

The order of things

I must have driven through Pākaraka, near Whanganui, although I don’t remember. Whenever it was, the little town would have borne a different name. Objectors say you can’t change the name of a place: that’s wiping out history. And they insist, you can’t just wipe out

25 Jan 2023 2 min read

Thought for the day, 21 January 2023

My unease is with so many other people's ease. It's not that I have a problem with either of these men - or more than I would with any other leader of their respective parties. I'm grumpy: guilty as charged. My problem is with the

21 Jan 2023 1 min read

Thought for the day, 19 January 2023

In my time as a public servant, I've worked under a few Prime Ministers. I can't say I particularly loved any as individuals - I'm just not that into party politics - and I've disagreed vehemently with plenty. But I can say this. Number

19 Jan 2023

Requiem

18 Dec 2022 6 min read

When you haven't got a prayer

When you haven't got a prayer

It was an awkward conversation, and if I could have slunk out of it, I would’ve. I was at work, and a British colleague sat down with me. We were both part of a large government department in Wellington. I was working at the time with the Māori policy

11 Dec 2022 8 min read

Thought for the day, 8 December 2022

Thought for the day, 8 December 2022

Not being able to do stuff irks me. To be honest, I wouldn't necessarily even do the stuff if I could. But like everyone else, I want the choice to be half arsed, not have it thrust upon me. Iain came round to do my section yesterday, after

08 Dec 2022 2 min read

Bad blood

I have always admired blood donors, although I'm not one (health reasons). I love them because of all the things they're prepared to give. Their blood, of course. Their time. Their resources, to drive to a place they can donate - and maybe to take an hour

30 Nov 2022 3 min read

Paid-members only

The mouse

27 Nov 2022 7 min read

Victimhood

I don't actually know what I want to say about this, so I'm going to start writing and find out. Content warning probably required.

20 Nov 2022 9 min read

Thought for the day, 17 November 2022

I could come at from the perspective of a leftie, who looks for structural explanations when shit happens. Or I could come at it as a research nerd, who knows causation is never some straightforward thing that can be captured in a glib Facebook post. I could approach it as

17 Nov 2022 1 min read

Thought for the day, 7 November 2022

A reflection, as my big kid does university exams, and my wee guy faces his first NCEA exam tomorrow. I said to the wee guy right now, 'Just do your best'. Then I cringed a little bit. When I was growing up, I understood 'Just do your

07 Nov 2022 1 min read

Nerd Sunday: National's social investment approach. Is it less boring than you think?

It's time to talk about welfare policy! Get it while it's hot, guys.

05 Nov 2022 8 min read

A quick word to my lovely paid subscribers

31 Oct 2022 1 min read

The barred?

A 'solution' may have been found, but this kneejerk stuff does more harm than good.

23 Oct 2022 7 min read

This is why I'm single. Too picky.

This is why I'm single. Too picky.

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11 Oct 2022 1 min read

Coming out of someone else's closet

09 Oct 2022 10 min read

Nerd Saturday: An interest in conflict

She was willing her tears back down, but they ebbed into her voice. She explained herself again - again - as the journos held their microphones to her, as her colleagues milled past on their way to the debating chamber. Rawiri Waititi, not even from her own party, stopped to touch her

24 Sep 2022 5 min read

And then, somehow, things got worse

18 Sep 2022 4 min read

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