Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: All John's Friends, in reply to The Ruminator,
Flame war: commence.
Oh god.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Backwards and Forwards, in reply to Peter Darlington,
Sorry to pile it on, but you'd have loved Major Lazer too.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Backwards and Forwards, in reply to Andrew Geddis,
Friday Music! On a Wednesday!! When will the madness end!!!
I'm going away for a few days ...
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Hard News: Cranks, self-seekers and the mayor, in reply to Ana Simkiss,
So has Orsman corrected his story to take account of Fonterra’s clarification (to put it kindly) which has been up on NBR most of today?
What's the gist of it, for those of us without without NBR subs?
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A fairly damning graphic showing how much Auckland is not spending on cycle infrastructure.
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Capture: BDO - Post Hoc, in reply to Mark Thomas,
Good thinking. Still, how amazing would it be if they could open up the lakeside? It’d be almost as good as Splore
I gather the view was that New Zealanders might take this as a challenge.
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Capture: BDO - Post Hoc, in reply to Mark Thomas,
They did actually hire in some surf lifesavers from Muriwai.
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Bernard Orsman this morning takes a decent scoop -- that Fonterra is to be announced as naming sponsor for Shed 10 on Queen's Wharf -- and makes it a mess by shoehorning in as much of the Len angle as possible.
Guys. Calm down, keep it simple.
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Hard News: Cranks, self-seekers and the mayor, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
And accordingly stayed near the mayor for what purpose?
I don’t know, I wasn’t there, I’m only guessing.
I have satisfied myself that the security hire was a standard one for such an event, that it was done by Auckland Transport staff without reference to the mayor’s office and that the idea that “heavies” were hired to protect the mayor and that an unusual cost was placed on the ratepayer as a consequence is false.
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Hard News: Cranks, self-seekers and the mayor, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
I do feel secure in saying that Penny Bright has treated people she has taken against quite despicably at times.
Most notably, her crew’s protest at the home of a dying Phil Raffills and their behaviour afterwards. The simple human decency thing sometimes eludes her.
