No Punches Pulled

Nearly two years ago, in July 2021 when the Labour government was riding high in the polls and the nation had lost its head and was acclaiming Jacinda as the second coming, I wrote on this site the article reproduced below. Understandably it was treated as wishful fantasy. In the event it was spot on.

The above heading appeared on the Stuff website in two places, shortly after midnight this morning. Good lord, I thought, not Thailand too, half a day after Taiwan.

The media carry-on about the thwarted yacht race (surely the most boring spectacle in all of sport) ignores a simple reality.

Six years ago my normally very healthy partner was suddenly struck down by pancreatic cancer. Before she died she closed her ASB Bank account.

A week back I had lunch with two of the capital’s best known citizens.