Posts by Paul Litterick
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So, let me get this right. Yesterday morning, John Key's office and Richard Worth both said Worth was going for "personal reasons." Later that same day, John Key said he had sacked Worth because of criminal matters. Later still, he let slip that the matters were to do with "harassment" of a woman, although he told Parliament that he was not at liberty to say what the case was about. Now he is demanding that the victim of the complaint which Goff brought to his attention but which he dismissed for lack of evidence (who may not be the same woman as the complainant in the criminal case) make public the texts to prove her case.
Does this mean that yesterday Worth was a crim, but today he is a victim? Or is a crim when Key says so, but not when Goff does?
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The answer to any question posed on a Listener cover invariably is "no." With this knowledge, one can save time that would be wasted reading the article.
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A new avatar? Black-slider!
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Why, thank you.
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The New Zealand Worrier , perhaps.
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Somebody asks to friend you, and you don't have the heart to say no.
I had the heart. I resent politicians jumping on to Facebook like they are down with the social media.
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Agree with you about Metro. It was getting too much like the giveaway rags, all gloss and froth, but it has returned to real stories. It will put the Listener to shame.
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Is it my imagination, or it's not the first time somebody has spent pages insisting that a certain word not be used except as defined by the statutes? And it still makes no sense: the idea that I might not be allowed to say that a person who's gunned down in front of a room full of witnesses was murdered, or to argue that the murder was an act of terrorism, is ludicrous. It's not as if the world is a court of law.
I would have made a similar point, but I have been busy in the Public Library re-titling the books in the Crime section: Unlawful Killing on the Orient Express; Murder, She Alleged; and so on.
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An adage from British politics:
Labour crimes are always financial;
Tory crimes are always sexual;
Liberal crimes are mixture of the two.Not that I know anything of this particular case, but Mr Espiner's question to Mr Key was interesting.
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I expect the current government thinks of the visual arts as purely a commercial matter. Private galleries sell art to people of money. Why should the government interfere in a healthy market?
And so on.