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More Than A Feilding now lives at davidslack.net where the daily edition continues as it always has, along with a good deal the old place couldn’t hold: a growing glossary of Aotearoa, a numbers desk, a daily quiz with a leaderboard, and more.

Never mind where’s the beef, where’s my $30?

I have been pulling at a thread that began with something Mimi Gilmour said as she explained why her Burger Burger was in receivership.

No one anywhere should ever be getting something that I don’t

And other canards that legrope us

The better and fuller the notes, the clearer and fuller the picture you get

When the last of the autumn skies shine blue the way they did this year, it takes me right back to Coronary Care.

Get a load of what these people are thinking they can do

What was it they kept saying last election, in between dog whistles about the Mahhrees? It was: people of New Zealand, your voice is being taken off ya, your say is being taken off ya, your democratic rights are being taken off ya.

Here is what we could be doing instead

In the last post about Prime Minister and the Greatest Generation, I promised better options.

What the Greatest Generation actually did

Hint: it's not what Luxon wants to do

The scale of the sharing must match the scale of the taking

Dealing with AI

We’re in a hurry, the environment can wait, and anyone who disagrees is standing between you and your power bill

Week in review, quiz style

Never assume it’s finished, never give up

Back when I lived in the world of business I sometimes used this opening conversation gambit: How do you handle disappointment?