Posts by Susan Snowdon

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  • Access: Phillip Hughes: a personal reflection,

    Thank you Matt. This is such thoughtful and kind writing. So nicely put.

    Since Mar 2008 • 110 posts Report Reply

  • Hard News: News from home ...,

    FTR, I’m on the record as wanting someone else to win, but also of the view that each of the people running had real strengths to bring to the role, and being happy to work with and for any of them. I stand by that.

    Same.

    Since Mar 2008 • 110 posts Report Reply

  • Hard News: Doing over the witness,

    I see that the usual suspects are trying to get the Hager fundraising effort shutdown …. time to give a little more ….

    Where does this come from?

    Since Mar 2008 • 110 posts Report Reply

  • OnPoint: Sunlight Resistance,

    I’m guessing you are thinking you are making a really brilliant point here
    - what a shame your imagery is so OTT, vile and debased that any point is negated.

    Thanks Ian. I'm with you.

    Since Mar 2008 • 110 posts Report Reply

  • Speaker: A Slight Diversion from…,

    Thank you for that lovely story and family photos. Much enjoyed. Best wishes for Harold's recovery.

    Since Mar 2008 • 110 posts Report Reply

  • Speaker: Jim's Festival,

    Anyone else seen 'Hard to be a god'? What did you think?

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  • Hard News: We need to talk about Len,

    There’s only a million other ones online

    Can't do them in the lunch room.

    Since Mar 2008 • 110 posts Report Reply

  • Hard News: We need to talk about Len,

    I finally snapped. No more Herald in my letterbox, after decades of loyal subscribing. I even managed to hold onto my principles and decline the offer of six weeks free Woman's Weekly. (Actually that bit wasn't hard...) I was tempted by an offer for the Saturday only Herald though - apparently John Roughan does not edit that. Still, I held out. Anyone else making a stand and going cold turkey on the cryptic crossword?

    Since Mar 2008 • 110 posts Report Reply

  • Hard News: We need to talk about Len,

    does it not seem odd that so few women respond to this issue?

    I can't answer this, but I can speak for myself. Len Brown cheated on his wife. I think that's reprehensible, but no-one's business but his and his family.

    Regarding his position as mayor, he seems to have got some good deals on accommodation, and he sometimes (rarely) used his phone and car for other than council business. But get some perspective here - as Russell has pointed out, in the scale of things these are trivial beyond words. 'Less than scrupulous' is probably the harshest thing I could say.

    There seems to be an unhealthy and unpleasant conflating of his 'affair' with his performance as mayor. Moral turpitude? Are we back in the 1950s??? A lot of people doing this quite obviously have their own agendas, usually political. Christine Fletcher, Cameron Brewer, I'm looking at you. His wife might not trust him too much these days, but what right have other people to take this so seriously? It's none of our business, and I'm ashamed of myself for the vicarious interest I've taken in some of the sordid details. We might choose to think poorly of his personal morals but does that affect his work? Do you change your mechanic or accountant or hairdresser because they had an affair? Of course not. You're allowed to drop your friends if they don't live up to your personal/moral standards, but Len is not your friend, or spouse. He's doing a job, the job of mayor, and in Auckland over the last decades we've had some stinkers. The Super City has been an enormous ask, and I hate to think what sort of shambles it would be in the future if we had one of the old has-beens or egocentric wannabes in charge.

    That's my ten cents worth.

    Since Mar 2008 • 110 posts Report Reply

  • Hard News: The Public Address Word of…,

    Night market

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